This episode was intended to deal with the doctrinal and practical influence of kabbalah up until its culmination in Sabbateanism, including major updates from the current state of the literature. Unfortunately, our new microphones ran out of battery half way through, so only the first part survives. We hope to cover the rest (which really deserves an episode of its own, anyway) in another episode soon.

Issues discussed here include:

* Evolving views on the authorship and composition of the Zohar

* Explaining the mystery of how one man wrote the Zohar (he didn’t).

* How the Zohar came to be considered authoritative among poskim

* How hearsay influenced halachic practice

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