ISBN:
9781904113072
,
9781906764418
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 383 S.
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2008
Uniform Title:
Siporet ha-Ḥasidit
DDC:
296.8/332
Keywords:
Hasidim / Legends / Themes, motives
;
Hasidic parables / Themes, motives
;
Hasidic parables Themes, motives
;
Hasidim Legends Themes, motives
;
Erzählung
;
Chassidismus
;
Legende
;
Chassidismus
;
Legende
;
Chassidismus
;
Erzählung
Note:
Aus dem Hebr. übers.
,
Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-359) and index
,
The Hasidic tale as perceived by Hasidim -- The tsadik, his followers, and his opponents -- Matchmaking and marriages -- The blessing of children: birth and offspring -- Agunot -- A life of sin -- Illness and physicians -- The dead, burial, and the world to come -- Transmigration of the soul and dybbuks -- The powers of evil and the war against them -- Apostasy and apostates -- Ritual slaughterers -- The Tamim: the simple person -- Hidden tsadikim -- Hospitality -- The prophet Elijah -- The Ba'al Shem Tov's unsuccessful pilgrimage to the land of Israel
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