Inhalt: | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A. Introduction -- A Spiritual Portrait of R. Abraham Alexander ha-Kohen of Kalisk -- B. Teaching Stories II -- R. Abraham of Kalisk along the Journey to the Promised Land -- C. Reader’s Guide -- 1. R. Abraham Kalisker’s Concept of Communion with God and Man -- 2. From Mythos to Ethos: Contours of a Portrait of R. Abraham of Kalisk -- 3. Moving Mezrich: The Legacy of the Maggid and the Hasidic Community in the Land of Israel -- 4. Theology, Succession, and Social Structure in the Dispute between R. Abraham Kalisker and R. Shne’ur Zalman -- 5. R. Abraham Kalisker’s Critique of Tanya -- 6. The Doctrine of R. Abraham Kalisker: The Path to Communion as the Legacy of the Bnei ‘Aliyah -- 7. Genotextual Performance between Tzaddiqim in Tiberias: R. Abraham of Kalisk’s Encounter with Reb Nachman of Bratzlav -- D. Chesed le-Abraham (Selected Homilies) -- Translators’ Introduction -- Glossary -- Index of Names -- Index of Sources -- Hebrew Critical Edition From Tiberias With Love is a journey to rediscovering the magic and mystery, the intimacy and depth of a lost moment in the history of a remarkably relevant conscious community in the Galilee that still has much to teach us. In the year 1777, a group of spiritual seekers from Eastern Europe set sail in search of a promised land, far away from the internal and external conflicts plaguing those souls seeking the infinite within this finite world. Some who set sail identified with the burgeoning Jewish spiritual renewal movement of hasidism, while others seem to have just come along for the ride. Weathering challenges both socio-economic and geographic, this emigrating group sought to establish a center for a burgeoning hasidic ethos that would radiate to the Diaspora from its renewed center in the Holy Land in Palestine. Tiberian Hasidism provides a model of an intensive contemplative life that is particularly appealing to contemporary spiritual seekers for many reasons, including: its deep focus on mystical theology; devotional practice; and the ecstasy of deep friendship rather than allegiance to an institutionalized religion. This volume focuses on the teachings of R. Abraham haCohen of Kalisk ripe for excavation, offering an authentic roadmap to future contemplative pathways ripe for our age |
