Notes from Limmud 2012: Diversity in Judaism: the year 1200CE as a test case

( Many believe that 'mainstream Judaism' as a metaphor characterises the Jewish experience following the destruction of the Second Temple in the year 70, until the emergence of the Reform movement in the nineteenth century. This was not the case. This talk examines the diversity in the year 1200 (somewhat arbitrarily), and how the various groups differed strongly on important issues. This talk discusses the Karaites, Religious Philosophers, Tosafists, German Pieteists and Kabbalists, which are groups which have written about themselves. There are also other groups which were written about by others. )

Banned

I've just discovered I've been banned from commenting in a friend's journal, whether on LJ or DW. If this person had a problem with things I'd said, it would have been polite at least to raise them with me. Well, I too can play the blunt weapon gambit: one defriending on LJ, DW, Facebook and RL coming up.