Attempting to explain the mystery of the emergence of 12th-13th Century Kabbalah of Isaac the Blind and Nachmanides in France and Spain, by examining the merger of the mythological genre of early Jewish mysticism with the Neoplatonic philosophy of Ibn Gabirol and Plotinus. And exploring the role that their metaphysics of the 'One and the Many', Unity and Multiplicity, Great Chain of Being and Emanationism, play in Kabbalah.
00:00 The Historical Mystery to solve
06:34 The Genre of Kabbalah
08:43 Midrash-Mythos meets Chakira-Logos
10:18 Neoplatonism: Plato, Philo and Plotinus
14:52 Neoplatonism in Muslim and Jewish thought
19:00 Ibn Gabirol: Mekor Chaim, Fons Vitae
21:31 Kabbalah meets Neoplatonism
23:04 Metaphysics of Neoplatonism: The One and the Many
28:32 Kabbalah of 12th Century Provence
31:09 Reaction against Maimonidean-Aristotelianism
35:44 Kabbalah of 13th Century Catalonia and Girona
41:49 Teaser and Recap
43:48 Question Time
