Shimon Halevi and Gersom Sholem
The moment you say Gershom Scholem, a whole constellation snaps into alignment. Not just intellectually, but temperamentally. Why Scholem explains everything about Shimon – Scholem wasn’t a “Kabbalist” in the romantic or devotional sense. He was something far rarer and far more dangerous, a historian who took mysticism seriously without becoming captive to it. That exact … Read more