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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781644698570
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (416 p.)
    Year of publication: 2022
    Keywords: EDUCATION / History
    Abstract: A Centennial, writes Hebrew College President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, “is an invitation to reflect on the last century of teaching and learning at Hebrew College, to ask ourselves what has changed and what has endured, to explore accomplishments and share ongoing struggles, to articulate our aspirations for the next one hundred years.” A compilation of captivating essays on Jewish studies alongside powerful personal memoirs from the College’s earliest years until today, Ḥiddushim captures and celebrates the spirit of a learning community connected to its source and brimming with spiritual and intellectual creativity as it carries forward its legacy of rootedness and renewal into the future
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Introduction , Message from the Editors , Section I: Memory and History , 1 A Home for Jewish Learning in “The City on the Hill”: The History of Hebrew College , 2 Four Men Entered an Orchard , 3 Girsa de-Yanquta, or Hebrew in the Afternoon: A Memoir of the Prozdor in Worcester , 4 Israel Studies and the Hebrew (Teachers) College: A Memoir , 5 What They Celebrated, He Mourned: Arnold Wieder’s The Early Jewish Community of Boston’s North End (1962) , 6 Searching for Treasure: A Journey Back to Hebrew College , 7 Across Five Pesaḥs , Section II: Studies in Jewish Thought, History, and Literature , 8 The Fate of the First Clothing , 9 Seeking Sarah , 10 Jacob and Esau: Twinship and Identity Confusion , 11 The Book of Judith: A Literary Appreciation , 12 A Woman Walks Into a Bar: Betrothal Stories in Bavli Qiddushin , 13 What Problem? Medieval and Contemporary Responses to the “Oven of Akhnai” Story , 14 Legal Authority, Memory, and Moral Worthiness: Tosefta Pisḥa 4.13–14 and Later Rabbinic Traditions , 15 Mystical Ethics: Rabbi Moshe Cordovero and Tomer Devorah as Commentary on the Idra Rabbah , 16 R. Levi Yiẓḥaq of Zelichow and His Quest for Leadership in the Early Hasidic Movement , 17 “Seek Me and Live”: Reflections on the Spiritual Journey , 18 Rabbi Elimelekh Shapiro of Grodzisk: Sketching a Nineteenth-Century Hasidic Leader , 19 The Lives of Berish Baʻal Teshuvah , 20 Contemporary Israeli Explorations of Spiritual and Psychological Insights in the Tales of Rabbi Naḥman of Bratslav , 21 A Mystical Reunion in Manitoba: Howard Thurman and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi , 22 “Kakha Zeh Ḥinukhi”— “That Makes It Educational”: Parabolic Style in Kafka, Keret, and Castel-Bloom , Section III: Studies in Jewish Education , 23 Reading the Sefat Emet for Religious Consciousness: Modulations on Or ha-Ganuz , 24 Growing Up Jewish: Me’ah and American Jewish Adulthood , 25 Striving for Shlemut: Navigating Explicit and Implicit Religiosity in Jewish Education , Contributors , Index , In English
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  • 2
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    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 9780812297058
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (408 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Keywords: Mysticism Judaism ; Language and languages Religious aspects ; Judaism ; Hasidism ; RELIGION / Judaism / General
    Abstract: A study of the life and work of 'the Maggid"—a major figure in the mystical thought of early HasidismEnshrined in Jewish memory simply as "the Maggid" (preacher), Rabbi Dov Ber Friedman of Mezritsh (1704-1772) played a critical role in the formation of Hasidism, the movement of mystical renewal that became one of the most important and successful forces in modern Jewish life. In Speaking Infinities, Ariel Evan Mayse turns to the homilies of the Maggid to explore the place of words in mystical experience. He argues that the Maggid's theory of language is the key to unpacking his abstract mystical theology as well as his teachings on the devotional life and religious practice.Mayse shows how Dov Ber's vision of language emerges from his encounters with Ba'al Shem Tov (the BeSHT), the founder of Hasidic Judaism, whose teaching put forward a vision of radical divine immanence. Taking the BeSHT's notion of God's immanence as a kind of linguistic vitality echoing in the cosmos, Dov Ber developed a theory of language in which all human tongues, even in their mundane forms, have the potential to become sacred when returned to their divine source.Analyzing homilies and theological meditations on language, Mayse demonstrates that Dov Ber was an innovative thinker and contends that, in many respects, it was Dov Ber, rather than the BeSHT, who was the true founder of Hasidism as it took root, and the foremost shaper of its early theology. Speaking Infinities offers an exploration of this introspective mystic's life, gleaned from scattered anecdotes, legends, and historical sources, distinguishing the historical personage from the figure that emerges from the composite array of textual and oral traditions that have shaped the memory of the Maggid and his legacy
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Transliteration and Style -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Life of the Maggid -- Chapter 2. Sacred Words -- Chapter 3. From Speech to Silence -- Chapter 4. Letters, Creation, and the Divine Mind -- Chapter 5. The Nature of Torah and Revelation -- Chapter 6. Study and the Sacred Text -- Chapter 7. The Languages of Prayer -- Epilogue. Moving Mountains -- Appendix. The Sources: A Bibliographic Excursus -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
    Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781644690208
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (580 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2019
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Be-Ron yahad
    Keywords: RELIGION / Judaism / Theology
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Reading in Harmony: An Introduction -- Judaism as a Path of Love / Mayse, Ariel Evan / Green, Arthur -- To Be or Not to Be: A Tale of Five Sisters / Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb -- From the Cleft of the Rock: The Eclipse of God in the Bible, Midrash, and Post-Holocaust Theology / Adelman, Rachel -- From Leviticus to Latkes: The Origins of Hanukkah’s Miraculous Oil and the Meaning of the Festival / Rosenberg, Michael -- Between Tradition and Innovation: The Pedagogical Possibilities of the Penai Yehoshua / Kanarek, Jane L. -- Rediscovering the Covenant: The Contemporary Hasidic Thought of Rabbi Shmuel Berezovsky of Slonim / Goshen-Gottstein, Alon -- Protest or Discernment? Divine Limitation & Mystical Activism in the Qedushat Levi / Rose, Or N. -- Leadership as Individual Relationships: A Close Study of the No‘am Elimelekh / Leader, Ebn -- Letter to Riga: Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn’s Meditative System for a Young Woman / Loewenthal, Naftali -- Hasidic Women: Beyond Egalitarianist Discourse / Kauffman, Tsippi -- Prophecy and Imagination in the Teachings of R. Tzadoq ha-Kohen of Lublin, R. Abraham Isaac ha-Kohen Kook, and R. Kalonymous Kalman Shapira / Reiser, Daniel -- Poetics of Exegesis in the Sefat Emet’s Homilies: Semantic Innovations for Discernment and Disclosure / Holzer, Elie -- Transcendent God, Immanent Kabbalah: Polemics and Psychology in the Hasidic Teachings of R. Avraham ha-Malakh / Stillman, Avinoam J. -- Losing the Princess—Returning to Self: Toward An Archetypal Mapping of the Soul / Glazer, Aubrey L. -- Caring for the Graves of the Righteous: The Holocaust in Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin’s Sippurei Ḥasidim / Rosen, Avraham -- “Like a Moth to the Flame”: The Death of Nadav and Avihu in Hasidic Literature / Mayse, Ariel Evan -- Index
    Abstract: The present volume honors Rabbi Professor Nehemia Polen, a rare scholar whose religious teachings, spiritual writings, and academic scholarship come together into a sustained project of interpretive imagination and engagement. With intellectual integrity and remarkable religious insight, Polen’s work expands the reach of Torah into an academic quest for ever-broadening depth and connectivity. The essays in this collection, written by students, colleagues, and friends, are a testament to his enduring impact on the scholarly community. The contributions explore a range of historical periods and themes, centering upon the fields dear to Polen’s heart, but they are united by a common thread: each essay is grounded in deeply engaged textual scholarship casting a glance upon the sources that is at once critical and beneficent. As a whole, they seek to give readers a richer sense of the fabric of Jewish interpretation and theology, including the history of Jewish mysticism, the promise and perils of exegesis, and the contemporary relevance of premodern and early modern texts
    Note: restricted access online access with authorization star , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
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