A playlist from The Jewish Story
Kabbalah and Hasidism
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Depths Out of Darkness
August 4, 2018 · 39 min · Episode page →
The twelfth century was a time of spiritual expansion as the Tosafists transformed the Talmud and the Pietists of Ashkenaz awakened new depths of the soul. Darkness grew...
About this playlist
The mystical stream of the story: the pietists of Ashkenaz, the Zohar, the mystics of Safed, and the movement of the Baal Shem Tov.
Where this sits in the story
4 of 9 eras
The Second Temple600 BCE–70 CESages and Geonim70–1000Sefarad and Ashkenaz1000–1492After the Expulsion1492–1700Modernity Arrives1700–1880Return and Catastrophe1880–1948The Young State1948–1967After 19671967–1987Into the Present1987–2023
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