Seekers of Unity

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Seekers of Unity episodes

November 19, 2023 Hegel: From Nihilism to Enlightenment
Dylan Shaul presents the one of the most important events in modern philosophy, the Pantheism Controversy sparked by the reception of Spinoza in 18th century Germany. The Controversy involved the greatest German philosophers of the period, and laid the foundations for the next 200 years of European thought. In the balance of the Pantheism Controversy hung the fate of the Enlightenment and Modernity; the fate of faith and reason, religion and philosophy; the fate of freedom, of the immortal soul, and even of God Godself. Our story will take us from the renegade Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza, to the heyday of the German Aufklärung or Enlightenment, through the philosophical revolution of Immanuel Kant, and eventually the birth of German Idealism itself.
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.
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: https://www.dylanshaul.com
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
1:02:11 Conclusion
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1 hr 7 min
November 16, 2023 Kant’s God of Reason
Dylan Shaul presents the one of the most important events in modern philosophy, the Pantheism Controversy sparked by the reception of Spinoza in 18th century Germany. The Controversy involved the greatest German philosophers of the period, and laid the foundations for the next 200 years of European thought. In the balance of the Pantheism Controversy hung the fate of the Enlightenment and Modernity; the fate of faith and reason, religion and philosophy; the fate of freedom, of the immortal soul, and even of God Godself. Our story will take us from the renegade Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza, to the heyday of the German Aufklärung or Enlightenment, through the philosophical revolution of Immanuel Kant, and eventually the birth of German Idealism itself.
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.
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: https://www.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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21 min
November 12, 2023 Spinoza and the Death of God
Dylan Shaul presents the one of the most important events in modern philosophy, the Pantheism Controversy sparked by the reception of Spinoza in 18th century Germany. The Controversy involved the greatest German philosophers of the period, and laid the foundations for the next 200 years of European thought. In the balance of the Pantheism Controversy hung the fate of the Enlightenment and Modernity; the fate of faith and reason, religion and philosophy; the fate of freedom, of the immortal soul, and even of God Godself. Our story will take us from the renegade Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza, to the heyday of the German Aufklärung or Enlightenment, through the philosophical revolution of Immanuel Kant, and eventually the birth of German Idealism itself.
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.
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: https://www.dylanshaul.com
00:00 Intro the Series
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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November 09, 2023 Religious Faith and Doubt with a Radical Mystic | Biti Roi
Join Biti Roi in a critical and meaningful exploration of religious faith and doubt as filtered through the mind of a radical mystic, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov and the luminous words of the Tikkunei Zohar.
Dr. Biti Roi is a Senior Fellow of the Kogod Research Center of Contemporary Jewish Thought. Biti holds a Ph.D from Bar Ilan University and is a lecturer in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University and the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem, where she teaches kabbalah and Hasidism. She was a leader and participant in the first cohort of the Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis and teaches at the Shalom Hartman Institute for various programs in Israel and abroad.
Biti has won several prizes and post doctorate fellowships (Kreitman, Polack, Elyashar) at Ben-Gurion University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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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00:00 Excerpt
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
1:17:35 Thank you
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1 hr 19 min
November 05, 2023 Heresy, Faith and Spirit among the Sages | Shraga Bar-On
Join us on a journey of faith and heresy with Rabbi Dr. Shraga Bar-On through a neglected chapter in the history of Jewish mysticism, the mysticism of the great sages of the Mishna and the Talmud. In a rich culture of dispute, rabbinic voices debate the mystical. Shraga gives us a first-hand creative rereading of one of the most mystical rabbinic passages, the famed ‘Four Who Entered the Orchard’ shedding light on its secret history and transformation from a forbidding tale of three, to a cautionary tale of four. Join us as we venture into the orchard, discover its pitfalls, promises, presences and pleasures, and whatever you do, don’t say ‘water, water.’
Rabbi Dr. Shraga Bar-On is the Director of the Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought and the David Hartman Center for Intellectual Excellence, and a lecturer of Talmud and Jewish Thought at Shalem College.
At the David Hartman Center, he is responsible for the advanced training of aspiring public intellectuals through the Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis, the David Hartman postdoctoral fellowship, and the Maskilot fellowship for women pursuing their doctorate. His research in Jewish philosophy and identity addresses a wide range of eras and topics: Second Temple literature, Mishnaic and Talmudic scholarship, medieval Jewish literature, early Zionism, and contemporary Jewish identity. His books and other works have been published in academic, popular, and educational contexts.
Shraga lives in Beit Horon, is married to Vered, and is the father of Peleg, Sinai, and Gefen.
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00:00 Excerpt
00:48 Mysticism among the Rabbis
11:50 A Culture of Dispute
26:41 Normal Mysticism – Akiva
30:21 Four Who Entered
44:39 Battling Schools
52:53 Encountering Two Gods
59:45 Relevance Today
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1 hr 10 min
November 02, 2023 Birth and Rebirth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis
Join us for a laborious and enlivening conversation on birth and rebirth, hope and fear, beauty and chaos, spirit and matter - winding through the tunnels of Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis.
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 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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00:00 Excerpt
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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1 hr 19 min
October 29, 2023 Psychedelics, Unio Mystica, and the Divine Feminine with Moshe Idel
Moshe Idel, considered the world’s leading scholar of Jewish mysticism by many, joins us in conversation to discuss his unique relationship to the texts of Jewish mysticism, his psychedelics experiences and the role of mystical experiences in the study of mysticism, Jewish Mysticism’s relationship to other mystical traditions, ‘Unio Mystica’ in Judaism and the techniques employed to achieve it, the Divine Feminine and the centrality of Mitzvot in Kabbalah and lastly whether he finds any truth, meaning or beauty in mysticism. Join us for this momentous conversation.
Moshe Idel is a Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and the Max Cooper Professor of Jewish Thought at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Professor Idel has served as a visiting professor and researcher at universities and institutions worldwide, including Yale, Harvard, and Princeton universities in the United States, and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Professor Idel’s book, Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism, won the 2007 National Jewish Book Award, and was published by the Institute’s Kogod Library of Judaic Studies. In total, he has published over one hundred books, translated into a dozen different languages.
Amongst a long list of professional achievements, Professor Idel was a recipient of the Rothschild Prize for Jewish studies in 2012, and was elected to the Israel Academy for Sciences and Humanities in 2006. In 1999, he became an Israel Prize laureate for excellent achievement in the field of Jewish philosophy.
00:00 Excerpt
00:33 Overview
00:53 Biographical
08:23 The Accidental Scholar
11:15 Reading Manuscripts
13:23 Meeting Scholem
17:03 New Perspectives
20:59 Documentation
22:15 The Enigma
27:54 Instability of Texts
32:26 ‘Phenomenological’
37:28 Communicating with Kabbalists
39:03 Experiencing with the Mystics
40:35 Easy Experiences
41:39 Abulafia
48:11 Unio Mystica
52:04 Jewish Unio Mystica
53:47 Techniques
54:32 The Common
57:08 Whence the Drive?
1:03:00 Definition
1:02:32 Continuity
1:06:36 Hans Jonas
1:08:22 Traditionalism
1:09:10 Inner Readings
1:12:15 Divine Feminine
1:17:58 Mitzvot
1:19:48 Terrestrial Mysticism
1:21:25 Unique to Jewish Mysticism?
1:23:14 The Essence of Jewish Mysticism?
1:24:28 Italian Kabbalists
1:25:58 Perennialism & Eranos
1:30:29 Unity?
1:32:08 Beyond Particularism?
1:34:09 Truth?
1:36:49 Meaning?
1:38:42 Hasidism Ashkenaz
1:45:10 The Besht
1:47:36 Lightning Round
1:58:15 Jewish Mysticism and other Mysticism
2:03:36 Final Questions
2:05:14 Thank you
2:06:34 Beauty
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2 hr 9 min
October 26, 2023 Inner Religion | Ron Margolin
Join us on a journey into the fascinating world of comparative religion. Join us as we explore the intersection between ethics and metaphysics, and the intricate relationship between meaning and mysticism. From the descriptive to the prescriptive, from the dangers to the rewards of interiorization, Professor Margolin's exploration of these concepts offers a unique perspective on the modern role of religion. Whether you're seeking deeper insights or pondering the meaning of mysticism, this conversation promises to be an intellectual and philosophical delight.
Professor Ron Margolin is a Research Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute, with a doctorate in Jewish thought from Tel Aviv University.
He teaches modern Jewish thought in the Department of Jewish Philosophy and Comparative Religion at Tel Aviv University.
His publications include The Human Temple: Religious Interiorization and the Structuring of Inner Life in Early Hasidism (Hebrew, 2006).
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00:00 Excerpt
00:41 Introducing Professor Margolin
01:37 Comparative Religion: Pitfalls and Benefits
07:05 William James and the Modern Role of Religion
14:27 The Humanistic Values Guiding Ron’s Research
17:43 A Question of Ethics
19:46 Can we have Ethics without Metaphysics?
22:31 The Descriptive to Prescriptive Leap
25:03 The Meaning of Meaning
37:30 The Meaning of Mysticism
1:04:09 Finding Meaning
1:10:40 Are you a Mystic?
1:13:12 The End of Ron’s Book
1:27:38 The Ends
1:40:16 A Process of Interiorization
1:44:59 The Dangers of Interiorization
1:50:59 Logic of Mysticism
1:59:27 Practicum
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2 hr 2 min
October 22, 2023 Can Religion Survive without Teachers? | Alexandra Mandelbaum
What does the teacher-students entail in the world of Hasidism and do we need it anymore? Join Alexandra and Zevi in conversation, exploring questions of charismatic religious leadership, teachers and students, masters, disciples and the potential for redemption.
Alexandra Mandelbaum is a fellow in the Maskilot program at the David Hartman Center for Intellectual Leadership. She is writing her doctoral thesis in the Department of Jewish Thought at Ben Gurion University and her research focuses on Breslov Hasidism and the ideological fluctuations within Jewish society.
Over the years, she has been involved in leading and coordinating projects in the field of Jewish and Israeli culture. As part of the “Cultural Brigade” she wrote, produced, and created two plays that dealt with Russian-Israeli identity.
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00:00 Excerpt
01:10 Chasidism in the Academy
04:26 Story
09:37 Israel
13:44 What is a Rebbe?
18:00 Dangers of Rebbes
19:30 To be a Chasid
24:41 Negotiating Relationships
27:20 The Besht
35:37 Is it still Hasidism?
44:45 Self Aware
51:34 Teachers and Students
56:24 Apology
58:56 A Question of Succession
1:00:53 of Messianism
1:17:36 Messianic teacher and disciples
1:20:42 Messianic People
1:27:12 Us
1:30:58 Teaching as a Woman
2:00:06 Succession
2:13:06 Death of the Teacher
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2 hr 26 min
October 19, 2023 Judaism, Shamanism and the End of the Law | Dov Elbaum
Join Israeli writer, journalist, television host and teacher, Dov Elbaum, in a frontier testing discussion addressing the relationship between Judaism and Shamanism, the real meaning of Idolatry, the Face of God and the End of the Law. Asking, how might one live if they saw the truth?
Dov Elbaum is a Research Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at Shalom Hartman Institute and chief editor of Yediot Ahronot Publishing. He has published extensively in Israel’s leading Hebrew dailies. A graduate of the Interdisciplinary Program at Tel Aviv University, his academic expertise is in philosophy, Kabbalah and Hassidism.
Dov edited and produced the documentary “Making Way” for Israeli television and is the host of the popular weekly television talk show “Mekablim Shabbat”.
His publications include: Zman Elul (Am Oved, 1997); My Life with the Ancestors (Am Oved, 2001), which won the 2002 President Prize for Young Writers; and A Walk through the Void (Am Oved, 2007).
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00:20 Judaism and Shamanism
08:05 India
13:13 Cross-Cultural Learnings
19:53 Brothers in Faith
23:34 Idolatry
28:53 Interfacing with Reality
31:53 the End of the Law
37:05 A Vision for the Future
43:28 Immanentizing the Eschaton
46:09 Moral safeguards
54:19 Are we ready?
59:10 A Love Story
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