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Two Models of Jewish Spirituality

Two Models of Jewish Spirituality Vol. 10, No.3 Spring 1992 lWO MODELS OF JEWISH SPIRITUALIlY by Jose Faur Jose Faur is a Research Professor at the Sephardic Heritage Foundation in New York City. He is the author of La Espiritualidadjulia; 'Iyyunim wu-Me!;Jqarim be-Mishne Tora le-Harambam, vol. 1; Rabbi Moshe Yisrael lfa=an: The Man and His Times; and Golden Doves with Silver Dots: Semiotics and Textuality in Rabbinic Tradition. His most recent books include In the Shadow of History: jews and COfwersos at the Dawn of Modernity (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992). Religion as madness is a madness springing from irreligiousness.' - 1 . Iberian Jewry gave birth to two parallel, and in a profound sense mutually exclusive, spiritual traditions: one "rationalistic" and the other "mystical." These traditions originated in two different geographical areas, reflecting different semantic and cultural environments: the rationalistic tradition was developed in Moorish Spain, whereas the mystical tradition was born in Gerona and Catalonia, under the Christians. Both these traditions transcended their geographic and historical boundaries and have continued to dominate Jewish intellectual and spiritual life till the present. Jewish rationalism in Spain was developed by elitist circles in Andalusia, particularly those connected with the Jewish Academy http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Purdue University Press

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Vol. 10, No.3 Spring 1992 lWO MODELS OF JEWISH SPIRITUALIlY by Jose Faur Jose Faur is a Research Professor at the Sephardic Heritage Foundation in New York City. He is the author of La Espiritualidadjulia; 'Iyyunim wu-Me!;Jqarim be-Mishne Tora le-Harambam, vol. 1; Rabbi Moshe Yisrael lfa=an: The Man and His Times; and Golden Doves with Silver Dots: Semiotics and Textuality in Rabbinic Tradition. His most recent books include In the Shadow of History: jews and COfwersos at the Dawn of Modernity (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992). Religion as madness is a madness springing from irreligiousness.' - 1 . Iberian Jewry gave birth to two parallel, and in a profound sense mutually exclusive, spiritual traditions: one "rationalistic" and the other "mystical." These traditions originated in two different geographical areas, reflecting different semantic and cultural environments: the rationalistic tradition was developed in Moorish Spain, whereas the mystical tradition was born in Gerona and Catalonia, under the Christians. Both these traditions transcended their geographic and historical boundaries and have continued to dominate Jewish intellectual and spiritual life till the present. Jewish rationalism in Spain was developed by elitist circles in Andalusia, particularly those connected with the Jewish Academy

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