Up@dawn 2.0

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Group 2 01

We did not have a chance to form into groups in Tuesday's class, so I will post my questions over the material here and encourage my other group members to post their respective questions as well.

The factual question that I formulated for the test Thursday over the Zohar. The question is, who wrote the Zohar?

The answer is Moses de Leon


Seems creepy



The discussion question I formulated is why do you think that the Zohar was eventually accepted and adopted by the Jewish community?

1 comment:

  1. Wonder what the candle's supposed to represent...

    My Factual Question:
    True / False, The Zohar was written to encourage the newly revived challenge of philosophy in popular belief.

    Answer: False. (It was written "to revive the doctrines of naïve popular belief that were being challenged by philosophers," pg.247)

    My Discussion Question:
    How do the ideas found in the Zohar connect to the earlier beliefs of Gnosticism and Neoplatonism?

    With the disconnect between God and the Jewish people -- the Zohar saying that the Jewish people can, through just following doctrine, "fix the broken world" -- I would say that influence came out of Gnosticism's doctrine that God does not care about humanity and its inhabitants. As for Neoplatonism, even the thought that the "pain of one person's life could have cosmic results" relates back to Porphyry's interpretation of Neoplastic thought that reaching God -- or The One, in the original case -- could be assisted through interpreting the planets to gain inner strength.

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