Hasan-i-Sabah's Heresy, Kabbalah, and Parting with Friends 'For the Love of God'

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Hasan-i-Sabah's Heresy, Kabbalah, and Parting with Friends 'For the Love of God'

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Hasan-i-Sabah's Heresy, Kabbalah, and Parting with Friends 'For the Love of God'

Episode 35: After feeling too sick to record the spiritual podcasts on Friday and Saturday, I combine all three mystical traditions into Sunday's and drag Sally along for the ride.

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Sep 25, 2022

Well sorry, everyone. I’ve felt so terrible the last few days I haven’t even been able to record my Friday Muslim mysticism and Saturday Jewish mysticism podcasts. So I’ll combine the readings from what I’d planned there for today’s.

See Part 1 of the Friday Muslim mysticism podcasts:

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