Gershom Scholem Quotes on Time
Gerhard, later Gershom, Scholem was a German-Israeli philosopher, historian, and the founder of the academic study of Jewish mysticism. This page collects quotes attributed to Gershom Scholem on the topic of time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Gershom Scholem:
“Kabbalah is the secret history of Judaism.”
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Attributed to Gershom Scholem:
“Tradition is not the dead repetition of the past, but its living interpretation.”
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Attributed to Gershom Scholem:
“Messianism is the most dangerous and the most fruitful element in Judaism.”
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Attributed to Gershom Scholem:
“To recover a tradition is also to remake it.”
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“No one has a right to speak who, in the midst of thinking , hasn't been overcome with the experience of glimpsing the essence of history .”
Diary Entry (2 March 1916), published in Lamentations of Youth : The Diaries of Gershom Scholem, 1913-1919 , p. 109