Antonio presents Joseph Gikatilla’s kabbalistic theory on the Divine Names and their connection to the nations and their gods.
Antonio looks at the central role played by freedom in Moshe Luzzatto’s Derech Hashem.
In a different key, Jonathan reflects on the various phenomena of madness—Dionysian madness, erotic madness, outright insane madness, to…simple insanity. What ties them together? What distinguishes them? What forms of them exist? Can there even be a definition…? The first in a (likely) series of exploratory thoughts.