[Avodah] The Princess and I: Academic Kabbalists/Kabbalist Academics

[Lisa Liel via Avodah]

On 5/7/2015 1:25 AM, Prof. Levine via Avodah wrote:
> From http://tinyurl.com/km8kf2n

>> The last few decades have witnessed the veritable explosion of "new 
>> perspectives" and horizons in the academic study of Kabbalah and 
>> Jewish Mysticism. From the pioneering work of the late Professor 
>> Gershom Scholem, and the establishment of the study of Jewish 
>> Mysticism as a legitimate scholarly pursuit, we witness a scene 
>> nowadays populated by men and women, Jews and non-Jews, who have 
>> challenged, (re)constructed, and expanded upon Scholem's work.[2] ...

R' Adin Steinsalz once said about the Kabbalah Center type of Kabbalah 
that it bore the same relationship to real Kabbalah that pornography 
does to love.  This "academic Kabbalah" bears the same relationship to 
real Kabbalah that an anatomy book does to love.

Lisa