Soul time in modern kabbalah

Despite being a mainstay of Religious Studies, the issue of time has entered kabbalah scholarship only in recent years. Following an overview of the approaches of Elliot Wolfson and Moshe Idel, the discussion focuses on two forms of “eternal present” in modern kabbalah: That of the individual “redemption of the soul” (found especially in Hasidic texts) and that of the redemption of the national psyche, most developed within the school of R. Kook. A third form, the dreamtime, bridges the pre-modern and modern periods. Throughout, the kabbalistic notions are compared to post-Jungian psychoanalytic approaches, as in the works of Hillman and Giegrich.