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Wrapping up our series on Maimonides by presenting some final pieces of the puzzle in our grand case for Maimonides mysticism. Presenting Maimonides notion of divine illumination, Maimonides’ emotional religious expression, and his negative theology, his idea that the human cannot adequality affirm anything about God. And hopefully by the end we’ll see how they all come together.
A comparative analysis of light, love and silence in the thought of Maimonides and the worlds religious, philosophical and mystical traditions.
Check out the rest of our Maimonides series: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_7jcKJs6iwXUKaVOvNJWr5DSLPTYV0j9
00:00 Intro
01:20 The Metaphysics of Illumination
03:00 Light in Judaism
04:45 Greek Philosophy – Islam
06:38 Maimonides’ Light
08:24 Aristotle
10:42 Epistemology of Light
13:24 Maimonides’ Emotion
16:22 Lovesick for God
19:53 Negative Theology. Via Negativa. Apophatic Mysticism
23:32 Trouble
26:56 Negative Emotion
30:56 Un-Knowing Love
33:37 Blinding Light
35:25 Knowing that we cannot Know / Learned Ignorance
36:10 learned ignorance vs normal ignorance
37:28 Dazzled by the Light
39:23 Silence
Sources and Further Reading
• Adin Steinsaltz, The Motif of Light in Jewish Tradition, 2011
• Alfred Ivry, Islamic and Greek Influences on Maimonides' Philosophy, pp. 150-51
• Alfred L. Ivry, "Ismäili Theology and Maimonides Philosophy," in The Jews of Medieval Spain: Community, Society, and Identity, 1995, 271-99
• Alfred L. Ivry, "Maimonides and Neoplatonism," in Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought, 1992, 137-56
• Alfred L. Ivry, "Neoplatonic Currents in Maimonides' Thought, in Perspectives on Maimonides: Philosophical and Historical Studies, 1996, 115-40
• Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays, 1910
• David Blumenthal, “Maimonides' Philosophic Mysticism” in Daat, A Journal of Jewish Philosophy & Kabbalah, 2009, No. 6466, Maimonides And Mysticism, Bar Ilan University Press, p. xvi
• David Blumenthal, Maimonides: Prayer, Worship, And Mysticism
• David Blumenthal, Philosophic Mysticism, The Ultimate Goal of Medieval Judaism
• David Blumenthal, Philosophy & Kabbalah, 2009, No. 6466, Maimonides and Mysticism, Bar Ilan University Press
• David Fried, Mysticism and its Alternatives: Rethinking Maimonides, Lerhaus, 2018
• Diana Lobel “Silence is Praise to You: Maimonides on Negative Theology, Looseness of Expression, and Religious Experience,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 76, no. 1 (Spring 2002)
• Diana Lobel, Moses and Abraham Maimonides: Encountering the Divine, 2021, p. 127-32
• Eliade, Mircea. 1958. Patterns in Comparative Religion. London and New York: Sheed & Ward.
• Elliot Wolfson “Via Negativa in Maimonides and Its Impact on Thirteenth- Century Kabbalah.” In Maimonidean Studies 5, 2008
• Elliot Wolfson, Through a Speculum That Shines, pp. 270-88.
• Gideon Freudenthal, The Philosophical Mysticism of Maimonides and Maimon, p. 113
• Jeremy Stolow and Birgit Meyer, Enlightening Religion: Light and darkness in religious knowledge and knowledge about religion, Critical Research on Religion, 2021.
• Joseph Citron, Maimonides and Mysticism
• Julius Guttmann, Philosophies of Judaism (New York: Schocken, 1973), 180–85
• Matthew Kapstein (ed.), The Presence of Light: Divine Radiance and Religious Experience, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004
• Michah Gottlieb, “Two Paradigms of the Nexus Between Philosophy and Mysticism Judah Halevi and Moses Maimonides” in Faith, Reason, Politics, Academic Studies Press 2013, pp. 40-60
• R.J. Zwi Werblowsky (1987) and Julia Iwersen (2005), “Light and Darkness” in Encyclopedia of Religion, Volume 8, by Lindsay Jones (ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005, pp. 5450-5455
• Sarah Pessin, The Influence of Islamic Thought on Maimonides
• Watson, Bruce (2016). Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age. London and NY: Bloomsbury Press, p. 32
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Wrapping up our series on Maimonides by presenting some final pieces of the puzzle in our grand case for Maimonides mysticism. Presenting Maimonides notion of divine illumination, Maimonides’ emotional religious expression, and his negative theology, his idea that the human cannot adequality affirm anything about God. And hopefully by the end we’ll see how they all come together.
A comparative analysis of light, love and silence in the thought of Maimonides and the worlds religious, philosophical and mystical traditions.
Check out the rest of our Maimonides series: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_7jcKJs6iwXUKaVOvNJWr5DSLPTYV0j9
00:00 Intro
01:20 The Metaphysics of Illumination
03:00 Light in Judaism
04:45 Greek Philosophy – Islam
06:38 Maimonides’ Light
08:24 Aristotle
10:42 Epistemology of Light
13:24 Maimonides’ Emotion
16:22 Lovesick for God
19:53 Negative Theology. Via Negativa. Apophatic Mysticism
23:32 Trouble
26:56 Negative Emotion
30:56 Un-Knowing Love
33:37 Blinding Light
35:25 Knowing that we cannot Know / Learned Ignorance
36:10 learned ignorance vs normal ignorance
37:28 Dazzled by the Light
39:23 Silence
Sources and Further Reading
• Adin Steinsaltz, The Motif of Light in Jewish Tradition, 2011
• Alfred Ivry, Islamic and Greek Influences on Maimonides' Philosophy, pp. 150-51
• Alfred L. Ivry, "Ismäili Theology and Maimonides Philosophy," in The Jews of Medieval Spain: Community, Society, and Identity, 1995, 271-99
• Alfred L. Ivry, "Maimonides and Neoplatonism," in Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought, 1992, 137-56
• Alfred L. Ivry, "Neoplatonic Currents in Maimonides' Thought, in Perspectives on Maimonides: Philosophical and Historical Studies, 1996, 115-40
• Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays, 1910
• David Blumenthal, “Maimonides' Philosophic Mysticism” in Daat, A Journal of Jewish Philosophy & Kabbalah, 2009, No. 6466, Maimonides And Mysticism, Bar Ilan University Press, p. xvi
• David Blumenthal, Maimonides: Prayer, Worship, And Mysticism
• David Blumenthal, Philosophic Mysticism, The Ultimate Goal of Medieval Judaism
• David Blumenthal, Philosophy & Kabbalah, 2009, No. 6466, Maimonides and Mysticism, Bar Ilan University Press
• David Fried, Mysticism and its Alternatives: Rethinking Maimonides, Lerhaus, 2018
• Diana Lobel “Silence is Praise to You: Maimonides on Negative Theology, Looseness of Expression, and Religious Experience,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 76, no. 1 (Spring 2002)
• Diana Lobel, Moses and Abraham Maimonides: Encountering the Divine, 2021, p. 127-32
• Eliade, Mircea. 1958. Patterns in Comparative Religion. London and New York: Sheed & Ward.
• Elliot Wolfson “Via Negativa in Maimonides and Its Impact on Thirteenth- Century Kabbalah.” In Maimonidean Studies 5, 2008
• Elliot Wolfson, Through a Speculum That Shines, pp. 270-88.
• Gideon Freudenthal, The Philosophical Mysticism of Maimonides and Maimon, p. 113
• Jeremy Stolow and Birgit Meyer, Enlightening Religion: Light and darkness in religious knowledge and knowledge about religion, Critical Research on Religion, 2021.
• Joseph Citron, Maimonides and Mysticism
• Julius Guttmann, Philosophies of Judaism (New York: Schocken, 1973), 180–85
• Matthew Kapstein (ed.), The Presence of Light: Divine Radiance and Religious Experience, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004
• Michah Gottlieb, “Two Paradigms of the Nexus Between Philosophy and Mysticism Judah Halevi and Moses Maimonides” in Faith, Reason, Politics, Academic Studies Press 2013, pp. 40-60
• R.J. Zwi Werblowsky (1987) and Julia Iwersen (2005), “Light and Darkness” in Encyclopedia of Religion, Volume 8, by Lindsay Jones (ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005, pp. 5450-5455
• Sarah Pessin, The Influence of Islamic Thought on Maimonides
• Watson, Bruce (2016). Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age. London and NY: Bloomsbury Press, p. 32
Join us:
facebook.com/seekersofunity
instagram.com/seekersofunity
twitter.com/seekersofu
seekersofunity.com
Thank you to our beloved Patrons: El techo, Stephen, Ross, Ahmed, Alexander, Diceman, Hannah, Julian, Leo, Sim, Sultan, John, Joshua, Igor, Chezi, Jorge, Andrew, Alexandra, Füsun, Lucas, Andrew, Stian, Ivana, Aédàn, Darjeeling, Astarte, Declan, Gregory, Alex, Charlie, Anonymous, Joshua, Arin, Sage, Marcel, Ahawk, Yehuda, Kevin, Evan, Shahin, Al Alami, Dale, Ethan, Gerr, Effy, Noam, Ron, Shtus, Mendel, Jared, Tim, Mystic Experiment, MM, Lenny, Justin, Joshua, Jorge, Wayne, Jason, Caroline, Yaakov, Daniel, Wodenborn, Steve, Collin, Justin, Mariana, Vic, Shaw, Carlos, Nico, Isaac, Frederick, David, Ben, Rodney, Charley, Jonathan, Chelsea, Curly Joe, Adam and Andre.
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