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Le Nom de Dieu et la théorie kabbalistique du langage (Petite collection)

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La primauté du mot comme origine du sacré prend une importance particulière dans la tradition juive. Dans ce texte lumineux, Gershom Scholem montre comment la mystique juive a relié le nom et la révélation. Ce que d’autres religions accordent à l’image sacrée, représentation du divin, le judaïsme le confie à la parole, à l’invocation. Pour la Kabbale, la Création émane du nom de Dieu, toute chose ayant été créée à partir des 22 lettres de l’alphabet. Ainsi, le travail sur la langue devient la tâche principale de la mystique juive. À l’origine de chaque forme linguistique est, précisément, le nom de Dieu, dont les variations infinies intéressent la science prophétique : un art combinatoire vertigineux à même de faire de la langue de la raison un langage sacré.

Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) a édité et diffusé les grands textes de la Kabbale et conféré à l’étude du mysticisme juif le statut de discipline à part entière. Il est l’auteur de nombreux ouvrages consacrés à l’histoire et à la philosophie religieuse du judaïsme : Les Grands Courants de la mystique juive, Les Origines de la Kabbale ou encore La Kabbale et sa symbolique. Il fut lié d’une profonde amitié avec Walter Benjamin, qu’il rencontre pour la première fois dans un café de Berlin.

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First published January 1, 1998

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Gershom Scholem

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Gerhard Scholem, who, after his immigration from Germany to Israel, changed his name to Gershom Scholem (Hebrew: גרשם שלום), was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern, academic study of Kabbalah, becoming the first Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His close friends included Walter Benjamin and Leo Strauss, and selected letters from his correspondence with those philosophers have been published.

Scholem is best known for his collection of lectures, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941) and for his biography Sabbatai Zevi, the Mystical Messiah (1973). His collected speeches and essays, published as On Kabbalah and its Symbolism (1965), helped to spread knowledge of Jewish mysticism among non-Jews.

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August 21, 2025
9/10.
It's a collection of two essays. The second one really needed an introduction.
The first one was amazingly well written, but since the topic was very difficult, it lacked some further deepening of the conclusions of the author.
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February 20, 2019
Libretto aureo, una densa panoramica sulla mistica ebraica riguardo al rapporto tra nome di Dio e creazione, in un linguaggio molto chiaro. Consigliatissimo a chi ha interessi riguardo questa meravigliosa cultura e filosofici. In generale, per il poco di suo che ho letto, Scholem si conferma ogni volta come un autore, uno studioso e un maestro incredibile.
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January 29, 2021
Un libro che chiede molta conoscenze pregresse o tante pause di ricerca ma che ripaga della fatica
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