Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy
Angaben zur Quelle:
27,2 (2019) 210-242
Keywords:
Safrin, Isaac Judah Jehiel,
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Hasidism History 1816-1915
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Jewish law History 19th century
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Komarno Hasidim
Abstract:
This essay interrogates the legal discourse of Shulḥan ha-Tahor, a curious—and curiously understudied—work of Hasidic halakhah written by Rabbi Yitzḥak Ayzik Yehudah Yehiel Safrin of Komarno. The book is, at heart, a systematic reformulation of Jewish law in light of Kabbalah, Hasidism, and the quest for personal mystical experience. Shulḥan ha-Tahor offers a rare case study for the interface of mystical experience, Hasidic devotional values, and kabbalistic doctrine as they explicitly shape the codified forms—and norms—of halakhah. The essay reveals a different side of Jewish modernity through a close reading of an exceptional nineteenth-century legal code.
DOI:
10.1163/1477285X-12341303
URL:
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