Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
European Journal of Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
14,2 (2020) 215-263
Keywords:
Elyashiv, Shlomo,
;
Luzzatto, Moshe Hayyim,
;
Mysticism Judaism
;
Jewish ethics History
;
Cabala
Abstract:
This essay will examine the viability of a kabbalistic ethics from the vantage point of what I have identified in previously published studies as the hypernomian foundation of the nomos, the grounding of the law in the ground that exceeds the law of the ground. Contrary to Scholem, who put the emphasis on an antinomian impulse that is in conflict with the tenets of the tradition, I argue that the hallmark of religious nihilism is the promulgation of the belief that impiety is the gesture of supreme piety. In the ensuing analysis, I will explore the subject of hypernomianism by a close analysis of what may be called in Derridean terms the law beyond the law, which he identified further as the nonjuridical ideal of justice, the gift of forgiveness, the aspect of pure mercy in relation to which it is no longer viable to distinguish guilt and innocence.
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