Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Religion
Angaben zur Quelle:
101,4 (2021) 455-504
Keywords:
Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman,
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Jewish philosophy
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Jewish religious literature History and criticism
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Jewish law Philosophy
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Mysticism Judaism
Abstract:
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924–2014) was a creative thinker and dynamic teacher who inspired a spiritual awakening among North American Jews grounded in his reinterpretation of Hasidism and Kabbalah. Critical to this religious renaissance was Schachter-Shalomi’s reenvisioning of Jewish law. This study identifies three stages in his writings, revealing him to be a complicated, iconoclastic religious thinker whose relationship to traditional halakhah was ever changing. His works provide a rich scaffolding that will force scholars beyond the threadbare binary of “law” and “spirit” and into new conceptual categories in which ritual practice, religious law and spiritual uplift are imbricated.
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