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The Intelligibility of Religious Language: Two Standpoints

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Rachel Shihor
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University

Extract

‘An honest religious thinker’, Wittgenstein remarked, ‘is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it’.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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page 215 note 2 Rabbi Israel of Ruzhin (1797–1850) was an important Hassidic leader. He established a large Hassidic centre in eastern Europe, and attracted many thousands of followers. Like many other Hassidic leaders, Rabbi Israel did not set down his teachings in writing. His teachings were collected and recorded by his disciples.

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