My study partner and I have been learning Talmud together for three years, but lately he's become obsessed with Kabbalistic interpretations of every text we read and I feel like we're losing the grounding in traditional scholarship that drew us together. Every session turns into him seeing hidden meanings and divine sparks everywhere while I'm trying to understand the actual legal reasoning, and we're not really learning together anymore.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people committed to shared learning are discovering their spiritual and intellectual paths are diverging in ways that threaten their partnership.
“Where Are You with Jewish mysticism — Kabbalah and Hasidism?”
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