{"id":270,"date":"2012-06-29T02:29:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T02:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mirtakupferminc.net\/?page_id=270"},"modified":"2017-12-27T18:13:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T18:13:18","slug":"paths-to-the-word","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mirtakupferminc.net\/en\/projects\/borges-and-the-kabbalah\/paths-to-the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Paths to the Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 As we enter the space where \u201cBorges\u201d and \u201cKabbalah\u201d are joined, it is imperative<em> that we underscore\u00a0fundamental differences between Borges\u2019 literary quest and the way of life and goals sought by the Kabbalists in their numerous iterations. <\/em>\u00a0The differences are as radical as those that separate the mystic who walks a path mined with choices of life and death, of reason and insanity, from the writer who revels in the<em> pleasure he draws from playing with\u00a0similar motifs. <\/em>\u00a0To speak of \u201cKabbalah\u201d is to enter the sacred space of Jewish mysticism, rooted and codified in principles and age-old practices; it is to launch from and to arrive at the Text, the <em>Torah<\/em>: the origin of the universe, a <em>nation\u2019s chronicle<\/em> and guide, the key to a people\u2019s history and the <em>hidden<\/em> secret that holds within its innermost chambers every version of every possible future.<\/p>\n<p>Borges knew and practiced in literature what for Kabbalists (and for other believers) is a guiding principle: nothing is gratuitous and nothing is left to chance in a Divine text.\u00a0 Nothing can be <em>deemed superfluous<\/em> \u2013this we also learned from Borges\u2014 even when what <em>we <\/em>face is just a literary artifice, even when all that is left is to recognize the limits of\u00a0<em>our<\/em> inevitably all too human imagination.<\/p>\n<p>Sa\u00fal Sosnowski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 As we enter the space where \u201cBorges\u201d and \u201cKabbalah\u201d are joined, it is imperative that we underscore\u00a0fundamental differences between Borges\u2019 literary quest and the way of life and goals sought by the Kabbalists in their numerous iterations. \u00a0The differences are as radical as those that separate the mystic who walks a path mined with choices of life and death, of reason and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":189,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-270","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - 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