Sandra Bernhard + Michael Cunningham

“The only one who knows, yet without knowing, is the highest desire, concealed of all concealed, Nothingness.” – Zohar, central text of the Kabbalah (as translated by Daniel C. Matt)
What can Kabbalah, a sect of mystical Judaism, teach us about our existence? Comedian Sandra Bernhard responds to this question along with writer Michael Cunningham (The Hours).
Michael Cunningham‘s novel The Hours won both the Pulitzer Prize and a PEN/Faulkner award, and became an Academy Award-winning film starring Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, and Meryl Streep. He is also the author of Flesh and Blood, And Specimen Days and A Home at the End of the World, was made into a film starring Colin Farrell, Dallas Roberts, Sissy Spacek, and Robin Wright Penn. His latest novel ByNightfall was published by FSG this September. He lives in New York.
“The only one who knows, yet without knowing, is the highest desire, concealed of all concealed, Nothingness.”-Zohar, central text of the Kabbalah
What can Kabbalah, a sect of mystical Judaism, teach us about our existence? Comedian Sandra Bernhard responds to this question along with writer Michael Cunningham.