"Scholem … says that Jewish mystics have always tried to project their own thought into the biblical texts; as a matter of fact, every unexpressible reading of a symbolic machinery depends on such a projective attitude. … For the Kabalist, the fact that God expresses Himself, even though His utterances are beyond any human insight, is more important than any specific and coded meaning His words can convey."
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Umberto Eco, in Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984), [4] Symbol, 4.4 : The symbolic mode, 4.4.4 : The Kabalistic drift
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Gershom Scholem
Gershom Scholem (Hebrew: גרשם שלום — born Gerhard Scholem) (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982), was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian.
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