Interresting image of a Working-Class God, you can think of it as an artisan or artist even, which is quite close to the meaning of the Demiurge. By the way, awesome series.
I'm so glad I found your program mate. I have for the first time in me life been able to find quite a bit of reliable and true study material regarding true occultism (something that has previously been practically impossible to find here in Australia). And learning Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism plays a very significant and very necessary tool in accomplishing that, so thank you so very much.
I first learned about this "golden age" where Jews, Christians, and Muslims studied together under the rule of Alphonso X when I visited a museum in Cordoba, Spain. I have a mixed ancestral heritage from the Andalusian (and Iberian peninsula) region, and feel very connected to the knowledge and culture that emerged from this time period. Thank you for sharing and keeping this information alive through your work. 🙏
29:55 ... Maimonides!! I'm not Jewish but my man Maimonides fascinates me (probably the only takeaway from my one semester Jewish history class at my Presbyterian college in the '70's)! Six or seven years ago in Israel being on staff of an archaeological dig in Galilee I had some free time and drove into Tiberias and by chance came upon a large structure, the roof made of metal girders in the shape of a lean-to volcano. I was gobsmacked!! It was the tomb of Maimonides!! Memories of my Jewish History class drifted out of the past! I knew who this guy was !!! And HERE HE IS (😉 )... Wow... just wow! My 4 favorite local Tiberias sites: Tomb of Maimonides, Horns of Hattin, Tomb of Nabi Shuwaib and a tiny tomb just off the highway outside Migdal just labelled "Sheik's Tomb" on maps...
Wow, fascinating. You know, you mention the Cathars in brief, but the Treatise of the Emanation of the Left Hand side as you describe it concerning the nature of evil ... reminds me alot of the more moderate factions of the Cathars who lived during this time and who were mitigated Dualists. I'm an absolute dualist ... but still, I never would have thought that ideas such as this concerning the nature of evil would have had such a profound effect on such an ostensibly nondualist religion as Judaism. Amazing stuff. Thank you.
I love your work, I'm in between jobs right now, but when I'm financially stable I just want to say thank you and support you as a patreon, but I would like to be even more helpful.
Well, this series is just phenomenal!!! I am listening to it in a loop and intend to come back to it to take notes and look into the suggested readings (affordable ones of course), as it is fascinating to me to study up on the practices of my forebears. Practices which were sorely lacking in my own upbringing, and to note are of great interest to me. Thank you so very much Dr. Sledge!!! Your expertise and summations on these very complex subjects is/are most appreciated!!!!
"The Core Kabbalistic problem is how to reconcile the infinite transcendence of God with the personal immanence of God". And that will be exactly why Kabbalah looks so utterly bizarre and alien to me. I am not closely wedded to either idea of God - in fact a conception of God with which I would be most philosophically comfortable would probably be neither (infinitely transcendent nor personally immanent). But once again, Dr Sledge has me excitedly hanging onto the edge of my seat, eager to find out how medieval Jewish mystics ended up addressing this fundamental contradiction in their world-view. Don't cut it short on my account, Justin, these lectures are genuinely one of the highlights of my week at the moment.
Almost halfway through and I understand so many things now ! I really like learning about history but the mysticism (which was a very integral part of everyday life) is mostly not covered in a lot of ressources and it leaves holes. Now I can patch them, at least partly :)
i don't have anything particularly profound to say, i just wanted to let you know that I really love this series and i hope that you'll do more in the future!
Youre a great man Dr. Sledge. Thank you for sharing your vast wealth of knowledge with the world in such an approachable and thorough manner. You're truly walking in the great footsteps of Manly P. Hall in the way that you are helping to collate, relate, and proliferate these various strains of esoteric wisdom to audiences. I also really appreciated that you included the reference to Brittney Spears' current situation. It sounds like since you posted this that her father's conservatorship is over!
What a blessing it is to have found your channel a few months ago. Thank you so much for your content, your knowledge, your wisdom, and your time! This series is utterly fascinating!! I can't wait to hear what comes next.
Dr. Sledge in the summary you mentioned the snake eating its tail in alchemy that symbol is the ourobouros. Will you do an episode on where the ourobuoros symbology came from?
@James Kosusnik I really liked your comment on the symbol ourobouros. Have you ever noticed that doctors use the 2 poles each wrapped with the snake when it actually means commerce. The pole with 1 snake is medical. I always laugh when I see it because commerce actually fits better with the amount of money doctors make lol. Escalapius is it ?? Please forgive my mis spelling I use a computer for handicap and the voice control is terrible and it's limited on its vocabulary especially names. Have a nice day.
@@paulinesereni5417 the whole institution of “hospitals” is seemingly a commerce industry. I didn’t know this but I’ll never look at that symbol the same again. And you’re right! It fits so much better!
This has been and I am sure will continue to be a supremely enjoyable journey through this material. Your channel has quickly become my favorite on RUclips. You are superb ❤
love all this stuff, man, thank you! super fascinating -- great, clear, and totally unpretentious presentation. Done me a great service, and I'll be supporting the patreon!
Could it be that the Kabbalists did not resist evil (as the common paradigm was), but showed it to be a natural phenomenon that must be known to be transcended?
Absolutely amazing, I agree the Zohar should be reclaimed, it’s aspects explored and teaching revealed to benefit all who seek. There are to many “Gate Keepers” to the ability that I am able to I am making videos covering section by section esoteric levels of it starting from book 1. I would love to hear you discuss your thoughts for the reason most versions have redacted the faithful shepherd as I believe this would bring for very interesting commentary points. Also there is a Harvard Paper on Isaac the Blinds commentary on Sepher Yetzirah which you may want to look at!!!
Milk boiling is very useful when you live in a farm and extracts it manually. In that extraction is inevitable the contact with some manure. It is essential for its sterelization.
Thank you Dr. Justin Sledge! I have thoroughly enjoyed this video and the others preceding it. I recently picked up the 3 volume Wisdom of the Zohar by Isaiah Tishby. I also have two other texts which help tackle the Zohar. I have YET to read them but really look forward to them and your upcoming videos on the Sefer Zohar!
Re: "I can't speak well because I'm from the South"; I know you're simply being politely self-derisive to whatever degree, but damn dude, I immensely admire both your linguistic and pronunciation knowledge, and your aptitude at manifesting that proper pronunciation of various non-English names, proper nouns, quotes, etc. Your multilingual aptitude is highly, highly impressive, to me at least. Also, have you ever read the book "The Alphabet vs. the Goddess"? Your discussion of the idea of the whole "words holding the power of reality" idea reminded me of it. It's more for laypeople, and you probably already know everything it talks about, but it was one of the most mind-expanding books I have ever read, when I read it, and it has a lot of overlap with a variety of topics you cover and have interest in. You might really enjoy it. It could of course be called a bit polemical, but I find it also openly heretical of so much that we take for granted in Western culture in a very brave, exciting way. It truly made me think about things differently, one of the few books to ever do that, along with "A People's History of the United States". Edit: Also, I feel the need to say, that, as someone who was raised as an atheist with a vague bit of Christianity in the background (Catholic raised father, but he had left the Church, and my mother was a plain atheist herself, and that is the perspective that has also come naturally to me internally, as well), this series of lectures is utterly fascinating, simply from a historical and philosophical point of view. And I feel like a bit of an intruder as well lol, given how this was clearly something aimed at a practicing Jewish audience; which only makes it all even more attractive to my curiosity : )
The more I listen to this series the more parallels I see between jewish mysticism and mormon temple ceremony. like the idea that in mormonism that you can learn and excel enough to be able to create your own world and populate it with soul-children and become like our god to another world.
The later evolution of the sephirot as divine emanations makes a lot of sense as the influence of Neoplatonism when you consider the Emperor Julian's description of the intellectual planetary gods in King Helios oration
I'm definitely not qualified to challenge this, but I feel that the post-Phenomenology Hegel was definitely a rational response to the romanticism of Schelling, Goethe, and the earlier Hegel.
Starting from the point of pure negativity like Hegel does in the later Logic seems like the furthest critical philosophy has been able to go in its project of "take nothing for granted", but again, I am an idiot
5:00 Oh God, I've binged through tons of your videos and this is the first one you mentioned a book I've already read that was ancient Greece related (a brief history of time is the book for those wondering lol)
Dr. Sledge thank you for the amount of information you presented in this video. I'm definitely going through this video more than once and taking notes. I'm looking forward to your presentation on the sacred zohar. If there's anything you suggest reading before entering the zohar I would appreciate your input on material. Again thank you for your time and devotion. I purchased the zohar by Daniel C. Matt however I can't recall if it was on your recommendations for authors?
I've been really enjoying this series over the past week or so, slowly working my way through and gaining understanding. What you say about the Zohar at the end, about it's experiments with language, its legendary DIFFICULTY, and its being a "postmodern" text remind me strongly of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, which I also know is also VERY heavily based on deep esoteric / mystic concepts generally but Kabbalic concepts in particular are structurally significant to its central cosmology -- as someone steeped in "the real deal" of ancient texts and languages, it would be fascinating to hear your take on Joyce's text, which I perceive as somehow equally being a "modern" attempt at writing a holy text in psychedelic language but also in some ways the "real" manifestation of Lovecraft's Necronomicon -- both sacred and accursed -- have you ever checked it out, or observed interest in it ?
Setting the stage for this lesson, the idea of God as creator vs. God as creation on a spectrum that descends into 'non-being' is exactly the point were exo and esoteric astrology meet. The Kabbalah and its origins feels like a fertile place that Alice Bailey would have made her births conductive from. Thanks for the lesson while I made my kids dinner :) youtube at its best :)
LLMs are trained on vast amounts of text data. Thus, they will have a good understanding of basic Kabbalah. They will probably not have a super detailed knowledge about specific historical developments, distinguishing many layers and nuances. For this, you would need to fine-tune the model on a whole corpus of Kabbalistic literature or provide said literature in a database (vector storage, retrieval augmented generation). Then, the LLMs could create commentaries on the level of Julian, not sure they can reach his level of humor though.
Saggi Nehor: Don't write this down, guys. It's dangerous. The Guys: Alright. The Guys: The Guys: Ok, he's gone, let's publish the heck out of this funky sephirot stuff
Can someone provide me with a source for the “candle/book concealed in a cupboard” quote by Rabbi Saggi Nehor? I have looked everywhere and cannot find a direct quote.
Loving this class, as I do all ur vids. Is there any way u could make an outline of the major points of each section available for download? It'd be great to have a worksheet of the major points with space under each for notes so that we could kind of fill it in as we go along. Of course, u're doing enough work presenting this to us as it is, lol. But that would be a great tool to have. Thanks again for all ur work on this channel. I spend far more time watching ur content than any other. Peace, 🙏.
1:06:42 - Can you tell more about this theological transformation of crucifixion pictures? l'm a bit interested how christianity transformed from early to modern form, and l'm just a layman person reading bits of church history.
Seconded, actually. The accompanying rise in philosophy about evil that was paralleled in the development of the Qlippoth by the Cohen brothers is intriguing.
Rolling around naked in the snow sounds like fun...especially after the way this summer season has been. The marketing strategies between Christian and Jews of those Middle Ages seems as amusing as those between Coke and Pepsi...it's all the same sugar and carbonated water with some flavor variants added for touting "We're Better."
I made the mistake of playing this at 0.75 speed and between that grooved out voice flowing at Xanax speed and the beard I had to ease up on my vape pen. Wild man.
You mentioned that the Chassidei Ashkenaz preserved a lot of literature that came from the Middle East probably via Italy ----- Maybe these books came to Regensburg directly from the Middle East, because this city was on the main trade route from the middle east (up the Danube river, crossing Germany over to the Shum cities to France and then down to Spain). A bit later Petachia traveled in the other direction from Regensburg. So maybe Regensburg was the center of the Chassidei Ashkenaz, because it was (besides Spain) the "entrance" of goods and BOOKS from Babylon to Europe.
@@TheEsotericaChannel the Kalonymos family settled in Germany about 300 years (9th century) before Jehuda HeChassid was even born (1150). So by the time of the Chassidei Ashkenaz, they were probably very well connected to the area of southern Germany. --- What I find quite fascinating in a broader sense is how the early medieval jewish centers were all along the major trade routes and probably it wasn't just goods that traveled along these routes but also books and ideas. Probably the largest international trade route that went through europe was up the danube river, to the rhineland, northern france, down the rhone river to southern france/ provence, then to northern spain (Barcelona/Girona) and then over to Cordoba. Pretty much ALL early medieval european jewish centers where directly on that trade route (makes a lot of sense considering that a large part of these international traders were jewish). And I just assume that the jewish books traveled along this route as well.
Rabbi Saggi Nehor's read on Genesis sounds like "On the Literal Meaning of Genesis" by St. Augustin. Spoilers: it is not what we might mean by "literal" today.
To go on a bit of a tangent - is anything known about mysticism among medieval karaites, or was the karaite movement entirely anti-mystical? Is it just not researched well enough? Did karaite practices reduce the chance of mystical writings surviving?
In "Samael Lilith and the Concept of Evil in Early Kabbalah", Joseph Dan presents an idea by Eleazer of Worms regarding the nature of 3 wicked destroyed worlds mentioned in Treatise on the Left Emanation. According to this idea, these worlds were set on a higher difficulty level so to speak. The temptation to do evil was still strong but there was no corresponding tendency to do good. People would have to develop their own moral compass without a nagging guardian angel to help us along. The idea being that if righteous people emerged in this world their righteousness would be even more impressive. But it was too hard a test and everyone failed. So in our current world we were given a sort of hint guide to point us in the right direction. Dan argues that Treatise on the Left Emanation may have been influenced by Eleazer's view even though the text doesn't explicitly say so.
@@TheEsotericaChannel That’s amazing. I really had no idea. That makes me wanna fall in love with the Jewish tradition even more. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with me 🙏🏼
I would not recommend an introductory course to the Kabbalah if it didn't mention Madonna (and Britney Spear's tattoo) right at the beginning. First things first. And that Metatron (?) angel... wasn't he a transformer from Cybertron? One of the bad guys, the what-cha-ma-callem, the Decepticons?
"speaking the world into being" makes me think to modern day programming language. It's literally the same thing! Digital worlds (or even our world?) created by line of codes. Damn
Fourteen leafs of mercy surround the waterlily, Noekva, Malchoet of the world Atsieloet, first rejecting the influence of father and mother, later passing it on to the nether stairs.
Try not to understand these texts, but let yourself be molded by just reading. Your soul already knows, since it has once tumbled down the ladder by being born in a physical body..
"This is a Wobbly God" is the best line, so glad I found this channel
Interresting image of a Working-Class God, you can think of it as an artisan or artist even, which is quite close to the meaning of the Demiurge. By the way, awesome series.
That's the platonic Demiurge, from where the gnostic concept was borrowed from.
Another whirlwind ride over the rainbow of esotericism!!! Your work brings colour into the material world Dr S!!! Very Metal
I'm so glad I found your program mate. I have for the first time in me life been able to find quite a bit of reliable and true study material regarding true occultism (something that has previously been practically impossible to find here in Australia). And learning Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism plays a very significant and very necessary tool in accomplishing that, so thank you so very much.
You should also check out secret history of western esotericism podcast.
I first learned about this "golden age" where Jews, Christians, and Muslims studied together under the rule of Alphonso X when I visited a museum in Cordoba, Spain. I have a mixed ancestral heritage from the Andalusian (and Iberian peninsula) region, and feel very connected to the knowledge and culture that emerged from this time period. Thank you for sharing and keeping this information alive through your work. 🙏
29:55 ... Maimonides!! I'm not Jewish but my man Maimonides fascinates me (probably the only takeaway from my one semester Jewish history class at my Presbyterian college in the '70's)! Six or seven years ago in Israel being on staff of an archaeological dig in Galilee I had some free time and drove into Tiberias and by chance came upon a large structure, the roof made of metal girders in the shape of a lean-to volcano. I was gobsmacked!! It was the tomb of Maimonides!! Memories of my Jewish History class drifted out of the past! I knew who this guy was !!! And HERE HE IS (😉 )...
Wow... just wow!
My 4 favorite local Tiberias sites: Tomb of Maimonides, Horns of Hattin, Tomb of Nabi Shuwaib and a tiny tomb just off the highway outside Migdal just labelled "Sheik's Tomb" on maps...
Thank you very much Dr. Sledge!
Wow, fascinating. You know, you mention the Cathars in brief, but the Treatise of the Emanation of the Left Hand side as you describe it concerning the nature of evil ... reminds me alot of the more moderate factions of the Cathars who lived during this time and who were mitigated Dualists.
I'm an absolute dualist ... but still, I never would have thought that ideas such as this concerning the nature of evil would have had such a profound effect on such an ostensibly nondualist religion as Judaism.
Amazing stuff. Thank you.
I have whole episodes on Cathar theology, fwiw
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I will make sure to watch them too, once i've finished this series. Thank you again Dr. Sledge.
I love your work, I'm in between jobs right now, but when I'm financially stable I just want to say thank you and support you as a patreon, but I would like to be even more helpful.
thank you so much Dr. Justin Sledge for sharing this series. This fluid format has going very well with your content.
Thanks, friend - just another way to share some learning. Glad it's landing well.
Well, this series is just phenomenal!!! I am listening to it in a loop and intend to come back to it to take notes and look into the suggested readings (affordable ones of course), as it is fascinating to me to study up on the practices of my forebears. Practices which were sorely lacking in my own upbringing, and to note are of great interest to me. Thank you so very much Dr. Sledge!!! Your expertise and summations on these very complex subjects is/are most appreciated!!!!
It's becoming quite normal for you to go on longer than normal ...
That silence is no-one complaining
So blessed to have found your channel!!
Is that your real name?
@@TheEsotericaChannel yes! Full name is Abigail Sarah Williams. Haha, I'm curious to know how come you ask. I get this question often!
@@daughterofdivine.313 name of a famous "witch" at Salem and and also metal band !
@@TheEsotericaChannel hahah yes everyone always tells me! 🤍🔮
@@daughterofdivine.313 I bet you should be the puritan era "witch" for Halloween and when people ask you who you are just say "Abigail Williams"
I am absolutely in love with this series so far
"The Core Kabbalistic problem is how to reconcile the infinite transcendence of God with the personal immanence of God".
And that will be exactly why Kabbalah looks so utterly bizarre and alien to me. I am not closely wedded to either idea of God - in fact a conception of God with which I would be most philosophically comfortable would probably be neither (infinitely transcendent nor personally immanent).
But once again, Dr Sledge has me excitedly hanging onto the edge of my seat, eager to find out how medieval Jewish mystics ended up addressing this fundamental contradiction in their world-view.
Don't cut it short on my account, Justin, these lectures are genuinely one of the highlights of my week at the moment.
Exactly I can't agree more
Personally, even at this 10th century conception, I find it both intriguing and of the sublime.
There's something incredibly interesting about the "queering" aspects touched on here. It tantalizes, for sure
thank you Dr Sledge looking forward to more
Thank you, Dr. Sledge, I'm loving this series! For what it's worth, boiling milk is an important step in making some puddings and cheeses.
min *46, yes please, more, i love these podcasts! thank you so much
Almost halfway through and I understand so many things now ! I really like learning about history but the mysticism (which was a very integral part of everyday life) is mostly not covered in a lot of ressources and it leaves holes. Now I can patch them, at least partly :)
Truly glad to have found this channel.
i don't have anything particularly profound to say, i just wanted to let you know that I really love this series and i hope that you'll do more in the future!
Thanks!
Youre a great man Dr. Sledge. Thank you for sharing your vast wealth of knowledge with the world in such an approachable and thorough manner. You're truly walking in the great footsteps of Manly P. Hall in the way that you are helping to collate, relate, and proliferate these various strains of esoteric wisdom to audiences.
I also really appreciated that you included the reference to Brittney Spears' current situation. It sounds like since you posted this that her father's conservatorship is over!
What a blessing it is to have found your channel a few months ago. Thank you so much for your content, your knowledge, your wisdom, and your time! This series is utterly fascinating!! I can't wait to hear what comes next.
Dr. Sledge in the summary you mentioned the snake eating its tail in alchemy that symbol is the ourobouros. Will you do an episode on where the ourobuoros symbology came from?
Just mentioned it in this week's episode and yes, absolutely will get an episode!
@@TheEsotericaChannel thats awesome, I'm so hyped
@James Kosusnik I really liked your comment on the symbol ourobouros. Have you ever noticed that doctors use the 2 poles each wrapped with the snake when it actually means commerce. The pole with 1 snake is medical. I always laugh when I see it because commerce actually fits better with the amount of money doctors make lol. Escalapius is it ?? Please forgive my mis spelling I use a computer for handicap and the voice control is terrible and it's limited on its vocabulary especially names. Have a nice day.
@@paulinesereni5417 the whole institution of “hospitals” is seemingly a commerce industry. I didn’t know this but I’ll never look at that symbol the same again. And you’re right! It fits so much better!
This has been and I am sure will continue to be a supremely enjoyable journey through this material. Your channel has quickly become my favorite on RUclips. You are superb ❤
Thank you for this, I’ve been looking for something like this lecture series for literal years. Keep it up, you have gained a loyal subscriber!!
80k congrats well deserved you will have millions ,👆up you go DR
love all this stuff, man, thank you! super fascinating -- great, clear, and totally unpretentious presentation. Done me a great service, and I'll be supporting the patreon!
Could it be that the Kabbalists did not resist evil (as the common paradigm was), but showed it to be a natural phenomenon that must be known to be transcended?
Exactly redeemed even
Absolutely amazing, I agree the Zohar should be reclaimed, it’s aspects explored and teaching revealed to benefit all who seek. There are to many “Gate Keepers” to the ability that I am able to I am making videos covering section by section esoteric levels of it starting from book 1. I would love to hear you discuss your thoughts for the reason most versions have redacted the faithful shepherd as I believe this would bring for very interesting commentary points. Also there is a Harvard Paper on Isaac the Blinds commentary on Sepher Yetzirah which you may want to look at!!!
Incredible series
Milk boiling is very useful when you live in a farm and extracts it manually. In that extraction is inevitable the contact with some manure. It is essential for its sterelization.
Excellent series!!! Thank you
Thank you Dr. Justin Sledge! I have thoroughly enjoyed this video and the others preceding it. I recently picked up the 3 volume Wisdom of the Zohar by Isaiah Tishby. I also have two other texts which help tackle the Zohar. I have YET to read them but really look forward to them and your upcoming videos on the Sefer Zohar!
Thanks. Now its getting so good.
Great content, thank you for this series. Can't wait for the next part!
Re: "I can't speak well because I'm from the South"; I know you're simply being politely self-derisive to whatever degree, but damn dude, I immensely admire both your linguistic and pronunciation knowledge, and your aptitude at manifesting that proper pronunciation of various non-English names, proper nouns, quotes, etc. Your multilingual aptitude is highly, highly impressive, to me at least.
Also, have you ever read the book "The Alphabet vs. the Goddess"? Your discussion of the idea of the whole "words holding the power of reality" idea reminded me of it. It's more for laypeople, and you probably already know everything it talks about, but it was one of the most mind-expanding books I have ever read, when I read it, and it has a lot of overlap with a variety of topics you cover and have interest in. You might really enjoy it. It could of course be called a bit polemical, but I find it also openly heretical of so much that we take for granted in Western culture in a very brave, exciting way. It truly made me think about things differently, one of the few books to ever do that, along with "A People's History of the United States".
Edit: Also, I feel the need to say, that, as someone who was raised as an atheist with a vague bit of Christianity in the background (Catholic raised father, but he had left the Church, and my mother was a plain atheist herself, and that is the perspective that has also come naturally to me internally, as well), this series of lectures is utterly fascinating, simply from a historical and philosophical point of view. And I feel like a bit of an intruder as well lol, given how this was clearly something aimed at a practicing Jewish audience; which only makes it all even more attractive to my curiosity : )
The more I listen to this series the more parallels I see between jewish mysticism and mormon temple ceremony. like the idea that in mormonism that you can learn and excel enough to be able to create your own world and populate it with soul-children and become like our god to another world.
We better see that coin collection one day, everyone would love it!
💜🙏💜thanks for sharing your insights & brilliance
The later evolution of the sephirot as divine emanations makes a lot of sense as the influence of Neoplatonism when you consider the Emperor Julian's description of the intellectual planetary gods in King Helios oration
I'm definitely not qualified to challenge this, but I feel that the post-Phenomenology Hegel was definitely a rational response to the romanticism of Schelling, Goethe, and the earlier Hegel.
Starting from the point of pure negativity like Hegel does in the later Logic seems like the furthest critical philosophy has been able to go in its project of "take nothing for granted", but again, I am an idiot
The "Wobbly God!?" I LOVE it!
Yay! Finally made it to the kaballah portion.
5:00
Oh God, I've binged through tons of your videos and this is the first one you mentioned a book I've already read that was ancient Greece related (a brief history of time is the book for those wondering lol)
Dr. Sledge thank you for the amount of information you presented in this video. I'm definitely going through this video more than once and taking notes. I'm looking forward to your presentation on the sacred zohar. If there's anything you suggest reading before entering the zohar I would appreciate your input on material. Again thank you for your time and devotion. I purchased the zohar by Daniel C. Matt however I can't recall if it was on your recommendations for authors?
It was! At the very least, he recommends it in his video "Advice and Tips for Starting to Study the Zohar" around the ten minute mark :)
"The first rule of קַבָּלָה Club is: You do not write about קַבָּלָה Club."
-Rabbi Saggi Nehor, probably
Could we do an episode one day about the kalonymous family one day? Moshe idel's books are pretty expensive here in the UK!
Thank's for sharing!
Gracias
I've been really enjoying this series over the past week or so, slowly working my way through and gaining understanding. What you say about the Zohar at the end, about it's experiments with language, its legendary DIFFICULTY, and its being a "postmodern" text remind me strongly of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, which I also know is also VERY heavily based on deep esoteric / mystic concepts generally but Kabbalic concepts in particular are structurally significant to its central cosmology -- as someone steeped in "the real deal" of ancient texts and languages, it would be fascinating to hear your take on Joyce's text, which I perceive as somehow equally being a "modern" attempt at writing a holy text in psychedelic language but also in some ways the "real" manifestation of Lovecraft's Necronomicon -- both sacred and accursed -- have you ever checked it out, or observed interest in it ?
Setting the stage for this lesson, the idea of God as creator vs. God as creation on a spectrum that descends into 'non-being' is exactly the point were exo and esoteric astrology meet. The Kabbalah and its origins feels like a fertile place that Alice Bailey would have made her births conductive from. Thanks for the lesson while I made my kids dinner :) youtube at its best :)
What kind of commentary would the recent LLM AI produce, I wonder?
LLMs are trained on vast amounts of text data. Thus, they will have a good understanding of basic Kabbalah. They will probably not have a super detailed knowledge about specific historical developments, distinguishing many layers and nuances. For this, you would need to fine-tune the model on a whole corpus of Kabbalistic literature or provide said literature in a database (vector storage, retrieval augmented generation). Then, the LLMs could create commentaries on the level of Julian, not sure they can reach his level of humor though.
Love this channel
Is there any way we are able to print out copies of your slides for each lesson?
Saggi Nehor: Don't write this down, guys. It's dangerous.
The Guys: Alright.
The Guys:
The Guys: Ok, he's gone, let's publish the heck out of this funky sephirot stuff
Ok
Amazing!!
Can someone provide me with a source for the “candle/book concealed in a cupboard” quote by Rabbi Saggi Nehor? I have looked everywhere and cannot find a direct quote.
6:39 as a Jewish Wobbly, I adore this sentiment
Loving this class, as I do all ur vids. Is there any way u could make an outline of the major points of each section available for download? It'd be great to have a worksheet of the major points with space under each for notes so that we could kind of fill it in as we go along. Of course, u're doing enough work presenting this to us as it is, lol. But that would be a great tool to have. Thanks again for all ur work on this channel. I spend far more time watching ur content than any other. Peace, 🙏.
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1:06:42 - Can you tell more about this theological transformation of crucifixion pictures? l'm a bit interested how christianity transformed from early to modern form, and l'm just a layman person reading bits of church history.
Seconded, actually. The accompanying rise in philosophy about evil that was paralleled in the development of the Qlippoth by the Cohen brothers is intriguing.
Rolling around naked in the snow sounds like fun...especially after the way this summer season has been. The marketing strategies between Christian and Jews of those Middle Ages seems as amusing as those between Coke and Pepsi...it's all the same sugar and carbonated water with some flavor variants added for touting "We're Better."
@15:20 A Rainbow Thread.
The author just got engaged! Mabrook!
Excellent
I made the mistake of playing this at 0.75 speed and between that grooved out voice flowing at Xanax speed and the beard I had to ease up on my vape pen. Wild man.
Kether, invisible crown -> Chochma, straight force, father -> Biena, Elokiem, mother -> Chesed, mercy -> Geburah, strictness -> Tieferet, unity -> Nezach, beauty -> Hod, intellect -> Jesod, reproduction -> Malchoet, creation, 'Earth'
@Benjamin Mesa Esthetics is a vast subject. If Hod equals logic qualities, Nezach 'should' represent artistic qualities as an opposing force.
6:12 LMAO 🤣🤣🤣 I know what your referring to but that just made me laugh so hard right now
You mentioned that the Chassidei Ashkenaz preserved a lot of literature that came from the Middle East probably via Italy ----- Maybe these books came to Regensburg directly from the Middle East, because this city was on the main trade route from the middle east (up the Danube river, crossing Germany over to the Shum cities to France and then down to Spain). A bit later Petachia traveled in the other direction from Regensburg. So maybe Regensburg was the center of the Chassidei Ashkenaz, because it was (besides Spain) the "entrance" of goods and BOOKS from Babylon to Europe.
Except we literally know the Italian family that brought them there.
@@TheEsotericaChannel the Kalonymos family settled in Germany about 300 years (9th century) before Jehuda HeChassid was even born (1150). So by the time of the Chassidei Ashkenaz, they were probably very well connected to the area of southern Germany. --- What I find quite fascinating in a broader sense is how the early medieval jewish centers were all along the major trade routes and probably it wasn't just goods that traveled along these routes but also books and ideas. Probably the largest international trade route that went through europe was up the danube river, to the rhineland, northern france, down the rhone river to southern france/ provence, then to northern spain (Barcelona/Girona) and then over to Cordoba. Pretty much ALL early medieval european jewish centers where directly on that trade route (makes a lot of sense considering that a large part of these international traders were jewish). And I just assume that the jewish books traveled along this route as well.
Rabbi Saggi Nehor's read on Genesis sounds like "On the Literal Meaning of Genesis" by St. Augustin. Spoilers: it is not what we might mean by "literal" today.
id love to see an episode about the jewish theology in Poland
as a fellow polish jew
To go on a bit of a tangent - is anything known about mysticism among medieval karaites, or was the karaite movement entirely anti-mystical? Is it just not researched well enough? Did karaite practices reduce the chance of mystical writings surviving?
The Britney love💕
"You are my special angel" la la la la.
In "Samael Lilith and the Concept of Evil in Early Kabbalah", Joseph Dan presents an idea by Eleazer of Worms regarding the nature of 3 wicked destroyed worlds mentioned in Treatise on the Left Emanation. According to this idea, these worlds were set on a higher difficulty level so to speak. The temptation to do evil was still strong but there was no corresponding tendency to do good. People would have to develop their own moral compass without a nagging guardian angel to help us along. The idea being that if righteous people emerged in this world their righteousness would be even more impressive. But it was too hard a test and everyone failed. So in our current world we were given a sort of hint guide to point us in the right direction. Dan argues that Treatise on the Left Emanation may have been influenced by Eleazer's view even though the text doesn't explicitly say so.
“Hey we heard you guys burn heretical literature”
“Yeah”
“Well, here’s some”
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And the Catholics probably got the question-answer format from Plato.
You have a. Amazing memory. It's pretty 'wizard' haha. I'm bringing it back.😂❤
Michiel Poortnaar from Amsterdam explains Zohar pretty well.
Do modern Jews view the Kabbalah like modern Christians view Gnosticism, or is it much more respected?
It's the standard theology in most circles
@@TheEsotericaChannel That’s amazing. I really had no idea. That makes me wanna fall in love with the Jewish tradition even more. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with me 🙏🏼
Northern tribes are ritualistic about tubbin in the snow
I would not recommend an introductory course to the Kabbalah if it didn't mention Madonna (and Britney Spear's tattoo) right at the beginning. First things first.
And that Metatron (?) angel... wasn't he a transformer from Cybertron? One of the bad guys, the what-cha-ma-callem, the Decepticons?
what was that trans person's name? I tried to google her but couldn't find anything
Kalonymus ben/bat Kalonymus
wow he even references the Wobblies.
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"speaking the world into being" makes me think to modern day programming language. It's literally the same thing! Digital worlds (or even our world?) created by line of codes.
Damn
"Hegel? Fisher Price"
Gotta boil milk for hot cocoa.
I am interested in jew magic more scholarship or writing kabbalah
Funny thing is that if you say "ka ba la" in Israel, you'll just get a receipt
Fourteen leafs of mercy surround the waterlily, Noekva, Malchoet of the world Atsieloet, first rejecting the influence of father and mother, later passing it on to the nether stairs.
The Nørwegians. The Norwøgians are the ones who boil milk.
"Arthur Rimbow".
scholarly pronounciation.
a btw…a latte contains boiled milk. Which then froths :0)
I have tattoo 2 solomon seal
Try not to understand these texts, but let yourself be molded by just reading. Your soul already knows, since it has once tumbled down the ladder by being born in a physical body..
11:37 a Barista boils milk, good Doctor. Though I suppose you're doing the buying of the coffees, not the making, eh? 😜
I actually worked as a barista for a few years as a teen actually.
@@TheEsotericaChannel no kidding? My bad! Just some gentle ribbing. I do very much appreciate the work you do for us all, and knowledge in general
What is the meaning of Righteous?,