Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
49,1 (2021) 55-84
Keywords:
Ḳalonimus Ḳalmish ben Elimelekh,
;
Piaseczno hasidim
;
Good and evil Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Providence and government of God Judaism
;
History of doctrines
Abstract:
Rather than chart some steadily evolving theology that R. Kalonymous Kalman Shapira’s Warsaw ghetto sermons phenomenologically defy, the author notes six critical theological junctures and one overarching juncture. Each is accompanied by new explications not noted previously, revealing moments that signal an exhaustion with traditional responses to suffering. As such the author presents a programmatic reading of the sermons’ haltingly unprogrammatic improvised widening of the door to alternatives that deviate from accepted theodicies. Although referring to historical dates periodically, the analysis intentionally refrains from correlating the sermons to specific events in the ghetto. More importantly, the sermons reflect R. Shapira’s own internal struggles, evoking theological discourse in the face of a theological novum or rupture. Though after each juncture momentary withdrawals or relapses might occur, these critical junctures remain embedded in his consciousness. Once each is contemplated, there is no turning back.
Note:
In English and Hebrew.
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