Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza

Patterns of Jewish Culture - Kabbalah (1x14)

Air date: Dec 19, 2005

This lecture introduces us to Kabbalah, the collective traditions of Jewish mystical contemplation of the divine, and explores how its proliferation in the 13th century was, to a great extent, a negative reaction to the influence of rationalism and philosophy on the Jewish community.