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Abstract Scholem's powers are primarily exegetical. An original thinker he's not. But the object of his life-long exegesis, namely the Kabbalah, and the messianic and mystical tradition within Judaism, allows for insight. For instance, this from chapter one, "With Gershom Scholem: An Interview”: “The kabbalist has a fundamental feeling that there is mysteri—a secret—in the world… If humanity should ever lose the feeling that there is mysteri—a secret—in the world, then it's all over with us. But I don't believe we'll ever come to that. Scholem's position is not that there is only mystery in the world; rather that there is also mystery.
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