{Re-entering History}[30th September 1990]

[Redbook7:344][19900930:1108]{Re-entering History}[30th September 1990]

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‘[Gerschom Scholem]* embodies two opposing trends in modern Judaism: the conflict between a timeless, inward quest for definition and an external need for acceptance, which entailed re-entering history. Scholem mediated these oppositions by reviving the most arcane of all doctrines, the cabbala, and revealing in it a new level of accessibility.’**

‘The letters indicate a basic pattern in his life, of Fall and Redemption’***

‘His father’s stern aloofness was softened by his mother’s warmth and took on a purposeful moral rigour. What saved him from pomposity, we now see, was the alert wit and self-mockery of his mother.’****

– So you see, it’s not my fault, after all.

*[1897-1982]

**T[imes] L[iterary] S[upplement] No. 4565, 19900928-1004:1016

‘Laws in a lawless age’, Jeremy Adler

*** – Ibid.**

**** – Ibid.**

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