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Those kabalists don't joke around, get that trough your heads
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Once he returned to the land he hadn’t seen since his family had emigrated, he spoke to every mullah and iman he could find, to dervishes, to rabbis, to sufis, kabalists, pundits, priests, ministers … An American mercenary who danced with snakes pointed him to this half-shattered building in a bullet-riddled town, where he played the hardest game of his life.
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Now that there’s a regular demand for kabbala in our shuls, I try to help people understand that the kabbala center is teaching narishkeit - that what the kabalists were actually doing was building a complicated cosmology which reflected their experience of pain and exile as well as a meditative practise to assist them in this endevor heavily influenced by Platonism - just tell me Abulafia wasn’t a Platonist!
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I think that’s why I would have to agree with the rationalists that kabbala was a Xianizing influence rather than the kabalists counter claims, nuh-uh, it was you! to the rationalists.
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