Kabbalah

is, unlike other religious systems, simply, already poetry, scarcely needing translation into the realms of the aesthetic.

Kabbalah seems to me unique among religious systems of interpretation in that it is, simply, already poetry, scarcely needing translation into the realms of the aesthetic.

is a system that thinks in ways not permitted by Western metaphysics, since its God is at once Ein-Sof and ayin, total presence and total absence, and all its interiors contain exteriors, while all of its effects determine its causes.

Kabbalah too thinks in ways not permitted by Western metaphysics, since its God is at once Ein-Sof and ayin, total presence and total absence, and all its interiors contain exteriors, while all of its effects determine its causes.

is a theory of writing, but this is a theory that denies the absolute distinctions between writing and inspired speech.

More audaciously than any developments in recent French criticism, Kabbalah is a theory of writing, but this is a theory that denies the absolute distinctions between writing and inspired speech...

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