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How to Unite with the Mind of God (According to Maimonides)
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In times like these we rarely have the opportunity to talk face-to-face with one another. In the hopes of bringing that opportunity back, we set up some chairs and a camera and invited people to ask us anything.
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How to Celebrate Your Birthday According to Jewish Mysticism - The How and Why of Jewish Birthdays Celebrations
Dedicated to Tzvi Slavin in honor of his birth. May he grow up to be a proud Chasid.
00:00 A Radical Innovation
03:27 Three Meditations
10:50 Ten Practices
20:38 Personal/Channel Update
23:00 Dedication
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In this episode, we talk about the historical and etymological roots of Chasidism, grounded in Chesed - loving kindness - and how Zevi’s own journey has brought him to a diasporist understanding of the unity at the heart of mysticism. Zevi joins Ben and Jordan Yanowitz as they together paint a picture of the role that love, community, and dialogue together play in shaping Jewish life. Chesed and Chasidism are diasporically interfused in this discussion with Seekers of Unity.
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00:00 Introduction
02:14 Zevi’s family history in Jewish Diaspora
08:40 Hasidism’s contribution to Jewish Spirituality
15:07 How Zevi’s Hasidism informs Seekers of Unity
21:51 The Relationship between Hasidism and NeoHasidism
29:42 Reflections on being a Diasporic Jew
44:51 The Role of Community in Zevi’s Spiritual Work and Life
52:28 Why are Hasidic Communities Hierarchical?
1:07:24 A Seekers Response to Crisis
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We begin with an overview of different types of ritual, followed by a brief discussion on the early challenges the study of ritual faced, followed by a historical sketch of the leading theories of ritual, and conclude with some closing words about what we might learn from the study of ritual, what it might teach us about rituals, and what it and they might teach us about ourselves.
00:00 Xunzi’s three warnings
01:08 Intro: Religious Studies vs Religious Practice?
01:51 Table of Content
02:46 Acknowledgements
04:19 Pitch
04:58 What is Ritual? Etymology and Taxonomy
09:33 Early Scholarship
11:35 Intro: Theory of Ritual
12:54 Smith
14:36 Frazer
16:42 Durkheim
19:33 Douglas
21:16 Hubert & Mauss
22:50 Erikson
25:26 Eliade
27:13 Smith
29:10 van Gennep
32:33 Turner
35:18 Lévi-Strauss
37:40 Geertz
39:22 Leach
40:50 Practice & Performance
43:40 Grimes
44:44 Bell
47:52 Ritual?
49:15 Summary
50:33 Conclusion
References and Further Reading:
• Bell, “Ritual,” in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion, Second Edition, 2021
• Bell, Catherine. 1992. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Bell, Catherine. 1997. Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions. New York: Oxford University Press
• Douglas, Mary, Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology (New York: Random House, 1970)
• Douglas, Mary. 1966. Purity and Danger: London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
• Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, New York, The Free Press, 1995
• Eliade, Mircea, The Myth of the Eternal Return (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954
• Eliade, Mircea. 1963 [1958]. Patterns in Comparative Religion. New York: Meridian Books
• Eliade, Sacred and Profane, New York: Harvest Book, 1957
• Erikson, “Eight Ages of Man” in Childhood and Society, 2d rev. ed. (New York: Norton, 1963)
• Frazer, 1922 (1890). The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion.. London: Macmillan
• Geertz, The Interpretation of Culture, (New York: Basic Books, 1973)
• Grimes, Ronald L. 1995 [1982]. Beginnings in Ritual Studies. Columbia
• Grimes, Ronald L., Research in Ritual Studies [1982] (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1985)
• Hubert and Mauss, 1964 [1898]. Sacrifice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Hughes‐Freeland and Crain. 1998. Recasting Ritual: Performance, Media, Identity. London: Routledge.
• Humphrey, Caroline, and James Laidlaw. 1994. The Archetypal Actions of Ritual. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Ortner, Sherry B. 1978. Sherpas Through Their Rituals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Rappaport, 1999. Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Robertson Smith, William, Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: [1889] (New York: KTAV, 1969)
• Schechner and Appel, eds. 1989. By Means of Performance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Segal, Robert A., ed. 1998. The Myth and Ritual Theory. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Smith, Jonathan Z., Imagining Religion, (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1982)
• Smith, Jonathan Z., To Take Place, (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1987)
• Turner, Victor. 1969. The Ritual Process: Structure and Antistructure. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
• Van Gennep, The Rites of Passage, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1961
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You might have all kinds of preconceptions about what prayer is. I invite you to set aside what you know and indulge me in a fresh articulation of prayer. We’ll present prayer as an opportunity to slow down, feel held and seen, to center yourself in silence, pour out your heart, and emerge re-empowered to face whatever comes your way - with love.
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00:00 Why Pray?
03:24 How to Pray?
09:58 What to Pray?
15:08 When to Pray
16:35 World of Prayer
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What I hope to do here is give a brief historical introduction to the subject of prayer, provide a typology, an overview, of the different types of prayer, next we’ll have a look at some of the philosophical and theological challenges facing prayer and some responses to those challenges, and end by opening a window to an entirely different kind of prayer.
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00:00 Intro to Prayer
01:07 Prayer, Historically
02:57 Types of Prayer
08:00 Challenges to Prayer
09:56 Responses
12:22 Mystical Prayer
14:56 Like a Child
15:52 Book Time
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Sources and Further Reading:
• Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy, 1945, p. 251
• Alexander J. Hodge, Prayer and Its Psychology (New York), 1931
• Antti Alhonsaari, Prayer: An Analysis of Theological Terminology (Helsinki, 1973).
• Basinger, D. (1995) ‘Petitionary prayer,’ Religious Studies 31: 475–84.
• Bruce Ellis Benson, Norman Wirzba (eds.), The Phenomenology of Prayer. United Kingdom: Fordham University Press, 2005
• Brümmer, V. (1984) What Are We Doing When We Pray? London: SCM Press
• Carol and Zaleski Philip, (2006). Prayer: A History. Boston: Mariner Books. pp. 24–25.
• Charles Taliaferro, “Prayer,” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Routledge, 2012
• D. Z. Phillips, The Concept of Prayer (Routledge Revivals). United Kingdom, Taylor & Francis, 2014.
• Donald Brown, (1991). Human Universals. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
• Donald G. Bloesch, "Payer", Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, 2nd ed., 2001
• Friedrich Heiler, Prayer: A Study in the History and Psychology of Religion from the German theologian and historian of religion, 1932
• George Mavrodes, 1998, 'Prayer' In: Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis,
• Gerardus van der Leeuw, Religion in Essence and Manifestation, (2 vols., translated by J. E. Turner (London, 1938), pp. 403–446.)
• Harold A. Carter’s The Prayer Tradition of Black People (Valley Forge, Pa., 1976)
• Immanuel Kant, Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason, 1792, p. 198
• Issler, K. (2001) ‘Divine providence and impetratory prayer,’ Philosophia Christi ns 3/2: 533–41
• Jerome Neyry, Give God the Glory, B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, Grand Rapids, 2007, p. 11.
• Margaret M Poloma and Brian F. Pendleton. 1991. The effects of prayer and prayer experiences on measures of general well-being. Journal of Psychology and Theology 19(1):71–83.
• Millard Erickson, Christian Theology, Baker Books, Grand Rapids, 2nd ed., 1998
• Murray, M. (2004) ‘God responds to prayer,’ in M. Peterson and R. Van Arragon (eds) Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Religion, Malden, MA: Blackwell
• Perry Le Fevre, Understandings of Prayer (Philadelphia, 1981).
• R. H. Coats, The Realm of Prayer, (London), 1920
• Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, “Mitzvas Haamanas Elokus” in Derech Mitzvosecha, Poltava, 1912
• Sam D. Gill, “Prayer,” (1987), in Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition, Lindsay Jones ed., 2005, p. 7368
• Scott Davison, Petitionary Prayer: A Philosophical Investigation, United Kingdom, Oxford, 2017
• Scott Davison, "Petitionary Prayer", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
• Simon Parker, “Divine Intercession in Judah,” in Vetus Testamentum, 56 no 1, 2006, p. 81-82.
• Stump, E. (1979) ‘Petitionary prayer,’ American Philosophical Quarterly 16: 81–91
• The Oxford Book of Prayer, edited by George Appleton and others (New York, 1985)
• Tzvee Zahavy “A New Approach to Early Jewish Prayer,” in History of Judaism, Baruch Bokser ed. (Calif., 1980), pp. 45–60.
• Ward, K. (1990) Divine Action, London: Collins
• William James, Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, 1902, (pp. 359–371.)
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I wanted to take this opportunity to break down the rituals, mention a lot that didn’t make it into the original video, answer some questions that were raised, respond to some comments, explain the disclaimers, and show my work. I hope you enjoy it.
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We live in a ritual bereft society, hungering for meaning, community and connection. Religion, at its finest, is able to provide those. In this series, we’re going to explore the form and function of religious rituals.
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00:00 Intro
00:21 Past and Present
01:36 Why Rituals?
03:15 Halacha and Jewish Rituals
05:27 The Function of Rituals, Sacred and Mundane
06:53 The Unity of Body and Soul
08:36 Update and Request
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00:14 Ethics
00:58 Practices
04:27 Who Was Kalonymus Kalman Shapira?
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09:22 Hashkata Meditation
12:16 Charting the Journey
15:15 Already there
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For the Love of God: A Plea for Life in a Time of Tragedy
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In the first episode of the series, we explored the philosophy of Spinoza and its reception in Germany, which first spurred the controversy. In the second episode we explored Immanuel Kant’s response to Spinozism and the Pantheism Controversy, where he attempted to stake out a middle ground between reason and faith. In this third episode we’ll tackle Hegel’s efforts to solve the Pantheism Controversy by reconciling Spinoza and Kant—thereby attempting to complete the grand journey from nihilism to Absolute Spirit.
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00:00 Introduction to Hegel
06:04 Substance and Subject: ‘The True is the Whole’
13:30 Hegel’s Encyclopedia System: Logic, Nature, Spirit
22:21 Hegel on Pantheism
35:51 Hegel on the ‘Death of God’
54:49 Critical Reception of Hegel
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In the first episode of the series, we explored the philosophy of Spinoza and its reception in Germany, which first spurred the controversy. In this second episode we'll explore Immanuel Kant’s response to Spinozism and the Pantheism Controversy, where he attempted to stake out a middle ground between reason and faith. In the third episode we’ll tackle Hegel’s efforts to solve the Pantheism Controversy by reconciling Spinoza and Kant—thereby attempting to complete the grand journey from nihilism to Absolute Spirit.
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Dylan Shaul is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His dissertation is titled Hegel's Concept of Reconciliation: On Absolute Spirit. He has also published on Spinoza, Kant, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Adorno, Levinas, Kristeva, and Derrida. See more of his work here: dylanshaul.com
00:00 Introduction to Kant
04:25 Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
09:35 Practical Rational Faith
14:26 Critical Reception of Kant
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In this first episode of the series, we’ll explore the philosophy of Spinoza and its reception in Germany, which first spurred the controversy. In the second episode we’ll turn to Kant’s response to the controversy, in which he tried to stake out a middle ground between reason and faith. In the third episode we’ll tackle Hegel’s efforts to solve the Pantheism Controversy by reconciling Spinoza and Kant—thereby attempting to complete the grand journey from nihilism to Absolute Spirit.
Watch the full series: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_7jcKJs6iwU9ZGBNyXrzS28PShgzp3jl
Dylan Shaul is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His dissertation is titled Hegel's Concept of Reconciliation: On Absolute Spirit. He has also published on Spinoza, Kant, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Adorno, Levinas, Kristeva, and Derrida. See more of his work here: dylanshaul.com
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06:04 Introduction to Spinoza
11:21 Spinoza’s Philosophy
17:53 Critical Reception of Spinoza
22:47 The Pantheism Controversy
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Her book, Love of Shekhina: Mysticism and Poetics in Tiqqunei ha-Zohar, was awarded the Matanel World Union of Jewish Studies Prize for the best book in Jewish Studies.
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00:17 Opening
01:20 Why R' Nachman is still alive
08:29 A Personal Journey
15:01 R' Nachman
18:50 R’ Nachman's Path
26:08 The Body
30:48 Radical Mystic
35:32 Scholar and Seeker
41:54 Question
47:39 Storyteller
59:06 R' Nachman and the Zohar
1:12:08 Core Themes
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00:48 Mysticism among the Rabbis
11:50 A Culture of Dispute
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44:39 Battling Schools
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Dr. Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel (Ph.D. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2010) is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jewish History and Thought at the University of Haifa where she heads the Posen Saulire Foundation-funded Jewish Israeli Culture Program. She also serves as Research Fellow at the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Her research deals with intersections between mysticism, gender, and psychoanalysis.
Dr. Kara-Ivanov Kaniel was a postdoctoral fellow at New York University, the HBI center at Brandeis University, and a Kreitman and Matanel at Ben-Gurion University. She also headed a Research Group on Psychoanalysis and Kabbalah at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Her book Holiness and Transgression: Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth was published by Academic Studies Press (2017). Her book Human Ropes—Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis won the Gorgias Press competition for Jewish Thought and will soon be published by De Gruyter Press. Her new book, The Feminine Messiah: King David in the Image of the Shekhina in Kabbalistic Literature (2021) was published recently by Brill. A poet and editor of poetry, as well as translator of Russian poets into Hebrew, her book The World Has No Silence (2011) won the Rachel Negev Literature Award. Her book The Soul is Moved was published in the Ritmus Poetry Series of the Hakibbutz Hameuhad Press in 2017. Her latest poetry book, Diamonds and Ashes, will be published by Pardes Press in 2022.
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00:48 Scholarship
09:09 Ruth’s Books
18:40 What is Birth?
24:17 Beauty
32:54 Psychoanalysis
41:23 Hope
48:10 A New Paradigm
56:30 Facing the Fear
59:47 Darkness and Light
1:07:04 Hope
1:09:16 Rebirth
1:11:09 Dreaming
1:12:43 Born again, and again
1:14:54 Not to be or to be?
1:16:32 Closing and opening
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