Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

After hearing that this man was attempting to convert him, Pope Nicholas III planned to have this man executed, though he died shortly before this man’s arrival. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this Jewish mystic who wrote extensive commentaries on Maimonides’s Guide for the Perplexed. This person claimed to be a Messiah and came up with a four-step process to purify consciousness via meditation.

ANSWER: Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia

[10m] Abulafia founded a “Prophetic” branch of this tradition. The Zohar is the foundational text of this tradition that describes emanations of the Ein Sof.

ANSWER: Kabbalah [or Qabbala; prompt on Jewish mysticism]

[10e] Abulafia arrived to convert the Pope on the eve of this holiday, which serves as the Jewish New Year and is the first of the High Holy Days.

ANSWER: Rosh Hashanah [or Yom Teruah]

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	17.50	75%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	12.50	63%	63%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	18.89	89%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	11.43	57%	57%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%

Data


Michigan A	Ohio State D	0	10	10	20
Pittsburgh	Michigan D	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan B	0	10	10	20
Ohio State B	Michigan C	0	0	10	10
Oberlin	Ohio State C	0	0	10	10
Art of Premature Signaling	UCLA B	0	10	10	20
P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	Caltech	10	10	10	30
girl 15 whale i mean they	Claremont A	0	10	10	20
UCSB	Claremont B	0	0	10	10
UCSD	UCLA A	0	0	10	10
Billy's Bastion	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	0	10	10	20
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	0	10	10	20
Too much from you lately	Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	0	10	10	20
BU	Brandeis	0	10	0	10
Brown	Belmont	0	10	10	20
George Washington	NYU B	0	0	10	10
Haverford A	NYU A	0	10	0	10
George Mason A	Johns Hopkins A	0	0	10	10
Maryland A	Haverford B	0	10	10	20
NYU C	Rutgers	0	10	10	20
CWRU	Maryland B	0	10	0	10
Georgetown	Catholic University of America	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins B	George Mason B	0	0	0	0
Arizona State University A	South Dakota School of Mines	0	10	10	20
Washington Connections	Carleton	0	0	10	10
UW A	Arizona State University B	0	10	10	20
UW B	Alberta	0	10	10	20
Egypt Airlines Haters	2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	0	10	10	20
Auburn 2026	mongeese	0	10	10	20
Gruh	Free Agents 1	0	10	0	10
Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	Goober Gang	0	10	10	20
Illinois Orange	Notre Dame + Epic Games	0	10	10	20
evil women enjoyers	Mahjonng Masters	0	10	10	20
Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	MSJ	0	10	10	20
we need new names	Quatumvirate	0	10	10	20
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	Four Generalists in Search of a Power	0	10	10	20
MIT	Harvard	0	10	10	20
Cambridge	LSE	0	10	10	20
Birmingham	Edinburgh	0	10	10	20
Imperial B	Sheffield A	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Sheffield B	0	10	0	10
Lancaster + Sheffield C	Sheffield C	0	0	0	0
Warwick A	Warwick B	0	10	10	20
Warwick C	Manchester	0	0	0	0
Lexington	RIT	0	10	10	20
Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	0	10	10	20
Master and Margaritaville	Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	0	10	10	20
Somehow Paula Deen Returned	Even in Blacksburg There I Am	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Truman State	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Illinois C	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	SIUE	0	10	10	20
Missouri	Illinois B	0	10	10	20
WashU Bulbasaur	Chicago B	0	0	10	10
WashU Charmander	WashU Squirtle	0	10	10	20