The Reception of the Zohar: A History, Ep. 2 (with J.J. Kimche)

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The opening of this shiur, in SeforimChatter with Nachi Weinstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

ongoing miniseries here on the podcast the reception of the zire a history with JJ Kim at the last episode of the series we started off with the beginning with the introductory statements that we went through the overview of desire and of the question and of various things and we worked through the first uh generation of the Sarah being revealed and the first comments and through shin and early period and we ended really witho and then we ended at the G and the role that g the expulsion of Spain of role that g the expulsion of Spain of the Jews of Spain in 1492 and the role that that played in the dissemination really in the expansion of cabala is specifically desire for this series uh throughout the world and what role that played so that's where we'll start episode two with and thank you JJ for joining me once again a pleasure n a pleasure it's been it's been a long time a whole 10 minutes since you recorded the previous one um you're not supposed to give that away to the listeners my my apologies my apologies we tend to do these marathons okay um so yes as you mentioned we uh stopped just before mentioned we uh stopped just before eurus 1492 of course the expulsion of Jews from Spain the destruction of the world's largest most productive most fruitful most extraordinary Jewish community at the time um was a blow from which Judaism and jeury arguably took centuries to recover if it ever did and of course Chang the landscape the um the social landscape demographic landscape the religious landscape the intellectual landscape um for the centuries to come and one of the major uh results of the expulsion from Spain was the spreading

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