Gavi Kutliroff is a writer, poet and musician and a firm believer in the necessity of an artistic Jewish renaissance. After studying East Asian Studies and Psychology at Brandeis University, he served as a madrich at Yeshivat Orayta in Jerusalem. Gavi is pioneering the comparative study of Chinese and Jewish Mysticism, particularly between the Daoist (Zhuangzi) and Hasidic traditions (Rabbi Nachman). He also has a strong affinity for aquariums. Forget what you know about knowing as we explore, the Limits of Rationality, Rationalism and Mysticism, Identity, Self-Alienation and Dancing around the Infinite Nothingness. “Knowledge in limitless. The human capacity for knowledge is limited. To use what is limited to pursue what is limitless is dangerous.”
Timestamps: 02:45 Conversation begins
04:29 Scepticism of Rationalism
08:50 Gavi’s Story - Who is Gavi? - Identity Crisis
16:51 Mysticism and Rationalism
19:03 Scepticism and Subjectivity, Information vs Wisdom
21:31 Gavi’s Religious Identity
29:33 Finding Jewish Mysticism
31:45 Self-Alienation in the Universality of Mysticism
41:03 Difference in Similarity, Diversity in Unity
44:14 Difference in Similarity in Self-identity and God’s identity
56:25 Gavi’s thesis: A Comparison of Judaism and Daoism, Rabbi Nachman and Zhuangzi
1:09:18 Playing with Reality
1:13:00 Capital N Nothingness
1:21:05 A Chinese Nothing and a Jewish Nothing
1:26:09 Messianic Paradigms
1:28:25 What Gavi’s up to
1:31:52 Closing words
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