Why would I waste my time reading nonsense like this?
He's not August Czieskowski, but this scholar referred to his understanding of history and metaphysics as "historiosophy". This man distinguished "restorative" and "utopian-catastrophic" subtypes of messianic movements. This man's dissertation led him to translate a book called the Bahir. A learned man who scoffed "This trash? Why would I waste my time reading nonsense like this?" inspired this scholar to study such thinkers as Abraham Abulafia. This scholar argued that real-life exile inspired a divine expulsion to the "Other Side" in the cosmology of Isaac (*) Luria. This man accused Hannah Arendt of lacking ahavat Yisra'el due to her apparent shilling for Adolf Eichmann. For 10 points, name this penpal of Walter Benjamin and author of Sabbatai Zevi: the Mystical Messiah, an emigrÃ© to Israel who revived the study of kabbalah in such works as Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism.
He's not August Czieskowski, but this scholar referred to his understanding of history and metaphysics as "historiosophy".
Gershom Scholem 