Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Introduction , Part 1 , Chapter 1: Introduction to the Idra Rabba , Chapter 2: The Language of Divine Faces , Chapter 3: The Gaze , Chapter 4: Reflections on Zeʿeir Anpin , Chapter 5: Literature, Mysticism, Praxis , Chapter 6: Overarching Themes in the Idra Rabba , Chapter 7: What Is the Idra Rabba Trying to Communicate? , Part 2 , Chapter 8: Entering the Idra Rabba , Chapter 9: The Kings of Edom: The First Appearance , Chapter 10: Arikh Anpin: Origins , Chapter 11: Arikh Anpin: Features of the Face , Chapter 12: Arraying Arikh Anpin’s Beard , Chapter 13: The Kings of Edom: The Second Appearance , Chapter 14: Zeʿeir Anpin Comes into Being , Chapter 15: Zeʿeir Anpin’s Head and Its Features , Chapter 16: The Tiqqunim of Zeʿeir Anpin: The Language of Flowing Bounty , Chapter 17: The Ancient of Ancients and Zeʿeir Anpin: All Is One , Chapter 18: Forming the Male and Female Body , Chapter 19: The Kings of Edom: The Third Appearance , Chapter 20: Separation and Coupling , Chapter 21: Sweetening Judgment , Chapter 22: Emerging from the Idra Rabba , Epilogue , Notes , Bibliography , Index , In English

Note: Originally published in Hebrew in 2017 under the title Mevaḳshe ha-panim , Includes bibliographical references and index

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