User talk:Mobius1ski
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[edit] Self-hating Jew?
Thanks for your input on Talk:List of political epithets. Please drop by again and give some details about when, where and by who you have been called a "self-hating Jew". // Liftarn
[edit] Occult vs. Jewish Language & Understanding
Could the dispute be settle by editing this article to follow the chronological development of the Tree of Life? There is good enough reference material available from the likes of Gershom Scholem, Aryeh Kaplan, Moshe Idel, Daniel Matt and others, that a good writer, "uninitiated" or not, could cover the traditional Jewish perspective and distinguish it from the Syncretism that has occurred in last couple thousand years. This article does need a lot of work. It does not distinguish the linguistic from the theosophical schools and makes no mention of Abulafia or Abraham Gikatilla. While that material is broader than the limited scope of this article, their influence on the understanding of the Tree of Life should be included. It also need to do a better job of covering the Gentile perspective better. There is much back and forth between the Christian and Hermetic adaptations, but there are important differences as well. It would be disingenuous to say that anything beyond a traditional should not be included, but I agree that there should be very clear distinctions between and among the all the perspectives. Like it or not the Tree of Life is no longer an exclusively Jewish archetype. It belongs to the world now and this article should reflect that. If that were done in a bit more of a systematic approach from a NPOV would you still dispute it? < Puck 14:08, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
