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DESCRIPTION:A lecture by Prof. Elliot Wolfson  In this lecture\, I will tur
 n my attention to one the potentially subversive theological repercussions
  of medieval kabbalistic literature related to the routine distinction bet
 ween Ein Sof\, the unfathomable infinity\, and the ten sefirot\, the lumin
 ous emanations configured through the prism of the imagination\, the names
  by which the nameless is proclaimed. I am particularly interested in reex
 amining the question of the apophatic dimension of the kabbalah as it pert
 ains to the infinite transcendence and the possibility that what is implie
 d thereby is a form of mystical atheism that would render all theistic por
 trayals of God as conceptual idolatry.  The lecture will grapple with the 
 extent to which the discernment that the final iconoclastic achievement of
  monotheism\, which one may elicit from kabbalistic literature\,  calls fo
 r destroying the idol of the very God personified as the deity that must b
 e worshipped without being idolized.  As Henri Atlan deftly expressed the 
 paradox\, “the ultimate idol is the personal God of theology . . . the onl
 y discourse about God that is  not idolatrous is necessarily an atheistic 
 discourse. Alternatively\, whatever the discourse\, the only God who is no
 t an idol is a God who is not a God.”
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LOCATION:Room 217\, Maass Chemistry Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0B8
 \, 801 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Mystical Atheism\, Idolatry\, and the Nothingness of God in the Kab
 balah
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/jewishstudies/channels/event/mystical-atheism-ido
 latry-and-nothingness-god-kabbalah-231202
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