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Kabalistyczna geneza “nowego myślenia” w Gwieździe zbawienia Franza Gasenzweiga

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Kornacka K.

Kwartalnik Filozoficzny

2019

vol. 47

issue 1

91 - 111

The aim of the paper is to describe selected ideas of the Kabbalah that can be clearly seen in The Star of Redemption – the most famous work by Franz Rosenzweig. This contemporary Jewish thinker repeats in his book the kabbalistic concept of time, according to which the past, the present, and the future constitute a kind of temporal continuum. For the past is always having an impact on the present, whereas the future – implying “redemption” – is always being anticipated in the present. Rosenzweig also copies the mystical idea of the female aspect of the Jewish godhead, Shekinah, who – as God’s Glory and Divine Presence – remains in the diaspora together with the wandering children of Israel. Furthermore, the philosopher reformulates some old ethical concepts of the Safedian kabbalists who used to assert that every man should perform the acts called yichudim (denoting unification between the male and female aspects of the Divine) as well as the acts of tikunim ha-olam (repairing the world), transforming positively the ontic realm of reality. The evident presence of these doctrines of the Kabbalah in The Star of Redemption constitutes, the author believes, an insuperable aporia in the thought of Rosenzweig, who also vehemently criticizes – in the very same work – the mystics as disregarding “the world”, since it prevents them from having immediate contact with the divine reality and with the godhead as such.

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Kabalistyczna geneza “nowego myślenia” w Gwieździe zbawienia Franza Gasenzweiga