Amir D Aczel, The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
This course is an engaged study of the development of Jewish mysticism, its symbolic universe, meditation practices, and social ramifications. While we will survey Jewish mystical traditions from the early Rabbinic period through the modern, the heart of the course is that many-branched -medieval stream known as kabbalah. Historical overview of the development of classical […]