89. The Kabbalists of Safed (Jewish History Lab) 

I have binged watched your Jewish historical information. Your information has been so helpful in helping me find my bearings as an African American Jew who desires to understand fully the history of us. Thank you for what you do.

Thank you for this series, it has been extremely informative. I'm not Jewish but I am from a Bosniak Muslim family, from the border between Croatia and Bosnia who grew up in the Bosniak diaspora as the son of refugees, so I feel at least a tiny bit of kinship with some of these stories, though I of course in no way want to make it seem like our struggles or histories are comparable. Thank you, once again. I am also studying history at the University of Copenhagen and this is all very inspiring. I also got a question, though I wanted to get the above note out of the way first, and if you do not feel like answering the question please feel free to skip it. I came into studying Jewish history through my interest in anarchist history. As you almost certainly know, "Yiddish anarchism" was a huge current in the international anarchist and especially anarcho-communist movement, with many prominent figures like Emma Goldman being of Jewish descent, and Yiddish almost becoming a sort of liturgical language for a lot of influential anarchist writing. I know you've written a book about Ukraine in the revolutionary years and you probably came into contact with the history of the Black Army and Nestor Makhno, which I understand is a point of huge historiographical contention among some people (being that it seems like half of the sources seem to insist that the Black Army engaged in pogroms and the other half seem to insist that alike the Red Army it had explicit anti-pogromist strictures). I've sadly not had the chance to read your book yet (though I have ordered it), so I do not yet know if you deal with the Makhnovitchna and if so what your takeaway from those historiographical disagreements are. I was just wondering if you have, or if you have plans of ever covering the relation of Jewish left-wing radicals within these less often discussed revolutionary tendencies. I think it's a very interesting and (as noted) oft overlooked aspect of both Jewish and political history.

Sending love from Tzfat the Holy City !! Waiting for you to all come visit!

With midterms going on at my school keeping me on edge I almost messaged you reflexively to ask for an extension on the essay for this lecture.

Rabbi Hillel Abramson! You are one of the best of the best! Loving your book,"The Kabbalah of Forgiveness "! I have to learn the Hebrew language. Keep up the great work!!!

Spreading knowledge of Jewish History is definitely a Mitzvah, and in my view akin to a religious act.

Great video! I would love to learn more history of Kabbalah and Kabbalists.

Thank you for your well written book on Maimonides on Teshuvah.

Great video. Hope to see more on Kabbalists and theories. Your CB De Mille moment reminded me of Don Rickles' comment to Charlton Heston at the Reagan Inauguration: "If you were Moses, I was a Mau Mau fighter pilot.”

Great job explaining the subject. You have clearly read up!

Mamash wonderful 💯💯💯

FYI (?) At Biketoberfest in Daytona Beach, FL there was a vendor selling merchandise with nazi symbols. The article stated the vendor was asked to stop and complied.

Thank you for these amazing lectures. It spotlights some of the most fascinating aspects in Jewish History. Me, and some of your Moroccan followers, will be so much grateful if you could provide a similar video about the Zohar in Daraa (Morocco) in particular and Morocco at large

Excellent lecture as always 🙏🏼🙌🏼 But I would have liked a reference to Sefer Yetzirah when discussing early kabbalistic literature. For some reason not much stress is put on that sefer, but the commentaries of the Vilna Gaon and R Sa'adia Gaon on Sefer Yetzira are simply incredible. I personally find studying that to be even more interesting than the Zohar.

In case you aren't aware of it, your work is probably more important than you think. Although I am atheist with regard to the God question, I was born Jewish, raised Jewish, educated in Jewish day school. Though I have never felt a connection to God or the Tanakh, the older I get the more connection I feel to our people. Your channel is an invaluable resource in the aspect of both keeping and growing my connection to our ancient ancestors. I thank you greatly for it. Be well and stay healthy Dr. Abramson.

Really enjoyed this and learning.

Awesome info, thank you very much.

Herr Doktor, missed the live event, so you were spared my spurious wit; commonly known as Chakras; yes very brief

Miss the live, enjoying the replay...

The ancient gurus or jewrus, as you wish, I love you, etc.. the message is always here/there. Thanks Mel Brooks and thank you doctor, son of Abraham. You're a brave man, a brahman!

Very interesting

🖖Thank You!❤️

Thanks Dr. You obviously have a grasp on Kabbala. מגלה טפח ומכסה טפחיים אין לי עסק בנסתרות.

And Rav Aryeh Kaplan zt"l, who translated many works of Qabbalah into English ALSO died very young. Hmmm. What lesson do we learn from that?

Yes, Keturah was Hagar, who waited faithfully for Abraham - but why was she treated so badly in the first ? Printed out some stuff from Ramban this morning, haven't gotten to it yet

So if the Kabbalists in Tsfat failed at the task, when did Modern Day Smicha come into being ?

What are any academic arguments for the ancient origin of the Zohar?

Will your team add the different languages subs on this lecture in the future?

Volume too low

This history lesson is great, the commercial before the history lesson, bad.

Hi Abraham Jacobson, is Kabbalah part of Judaism or part of the Hebrew Nation?

Svat swat swavas? Saves?

Isn't there a character called kabalah in mortal Kombat 3.interesting.

Did they have a Chinese Restaurant there and then?

Sir, I was going to share this interesting, beautiful video and my finger slipped and pressed "dislike". Of course I cancelled it and hit the "like" button immediately, and shared. Please accept my apologies.

NOTICE: The Ottoman map includes the Province of Syria....., BUT NO PALESTINE! THERE WAS NO MUSLIM PALESTINE UNTIL 1964!

I'll sponsor lecture on creation / kabbalah - Mom's yahrtzeit 3 Nissan

Poor Jews. They seriously never did anything wrong to anyone.