Journal of Traditional Medicine & Applications(JTMA)

Dominican University, Borra College of Health Sciences, United States

Publications

• Research Article   
  The Sacred Shadow: Kabbalistic Heresy and the Antinomian Roots of Medical Dissent
  Author(s): Julian Ungar-Sargon*
  
  Building upon previous analyses of medical heresy as secularized religious orthodoxy enforcement, this study examines how Jewish mystical traditions particularly Kabbalistic antinomianism and Sabbatian theology illuminate deeper dimensions of the heresy-orthodoxy dialectic in contemporary medical practice. Through analysis of figures like Sabbatai Zevi, Jacob Frank, and their theological frameworks, we demonstrate how the paradoxical necessity of heresy in mystical traditions provides essential insights for understanding resistance to medical orthodoxy. Drawing on concepts of divine concealment (tzimtzum), sacred transgression, and the redemptive function of apparent evil, this work reveals how medical dissidents unconsciously echo ancient patterns of sacred rebellion against institutional authority. The antinomian principle that authentic spiritual realization sometimes requires viol.. Read More»
  

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