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100. Cosmic Time | Dr. Jonnie Schnytzer
J.J. and Dr. Jonnie Schnytzer cycle through the mystical cosmos in search of the meaning and direction of time itself.
Dr. Jonnie Schnytzer is a scholar of medieval kabbalah and its ripples through time. Some questions that interest me: what does it mean to be human in kabbalah? Why did some kabbalists imagine worlds before this one – and worlds yet to come – and how did those ideas shape their being in the present? What is the difference between a Golem and a robot? I am a Senior Lecturer at the Multidisciplinary Center for Jewish Studies at Bar Ilan University and head of the “Cramim”…
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