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contain languages and metaphor. Derrida itself acknowledge how the Jewish identity and experience impacted his life and work. 101 The stories not just end, but begin, despite he try to disconnect by rejecting Haldeman’ s assertion he, Derrida is a loss son of Judaism, 102 despited his protestation, acknowledge he wrote Judaism theme in oblique way. 103
Two schools about Derrida identity, Wolfson specifically consider Derrida relationship to Kabbalah is conversion not influence, 104 where Idel consider him as Kabbalist. 105 Caputo consider deconstruction in the tradition of Prophesy. 106
Idel consider Kabbalah not just as historiography, 107 while Shalom historical Analysis culminated with a national redemption. 108
For Idel Kabbalah is driven by individual experiences, Kabbalah of Prophesies, Abulaphia individual to debuk to the ruah a kodesh to commute to G-D. 109
Wolfson points out Bloom argue the Derrida difference and trace, where influence by the Hermeneutics of the Kabbalah, 110 Wolfson cite Wolosky 111 and Hadelman 112, Derrida familiarity with the Jewish Ritual, give Derrida a Hellenistitc Ontotheology, 113 where his knowledge of Levinas 114 express interpretation of the text. For Wolfson the connection
101 Susan Hadelman, 1982. The Slayers of Moses: The emergence of Rabbinic Interpretation, Albany: State University of New York Press 102 Rötzer, 1986. Französischie Philosphen im Gespräch, p-74, Klaus Boer Verlag 103 Ofrat 2001, Jewish Derrida, p 10, University of Syracuse Press 104 Wolfson, 2002. Assaulting the Border: Kabbalistic Traces in the Margins of Derrida, Journal of Academy of
Religion, 70: 475-514 105 Idel, 2002. Absorbing Perfections, New Heaven: Yale University Press. 106 Caputo, 1997. The Prayers and the Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion without Religion, Bloomington &
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press 107 Ibid., Idel 2002 Absolving Perfection: Kabbalah and Interpretation, Yale University Press 108 Schalom, 1987, Origins of the Kabbalah, JPS 109 Idel, 1988. Kabbalah New Prespectives, p 35-111, Yale University Press 110 Ibid., Wolfson, 2002. Assaulting the Border: Kabbalistic Traces in the Margins of Derrida, Journal of
Academy of Religion, 70: 475-514 111 Derrida- Edmond Jabes and the Question of the Book, In Writing and the Difference Routledge, 2002 112 Ibid., Susan Hadelman, 1982. The Slayers of Moses: The emergence of Rabbinic Interpretation, Albany:
State University of New York Press 113 Ibid., Wolfson, Assaulting Borders p 489-490 114 Wolfson cities Derrida, Violence and Metaphysics: An essay on the Thought of Emanuel Levinas, Wolfosn
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