A story of poets, pirates, sultans, queens, philosophers, mystics, kabbalists and heretics, forced conversions, attempted assassinations, and inquisitions.

01:20 Brief History of the Scholarship

03:30 Story of Avraham Cohen de Herrera

14:44 From Herrera to Spinoza

18:00 The Textual Witnesses

23:03 Spinoza’s Kabbalistic Ideas

28:21 Spinoza and Hasidism

34:03 Spinoza and Mysticism

39:23 Closing thoughts Like and Subscribe for more good stuff like this.

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