ISBN:
9780804791304
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 271 p
Year of publication:
2015
Series Statement:
Encountering traditions
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Magid, Shaʾul, 1958 - Hasidism incarnate
DDC:
296.8/332
Keywords:
Hasidism Doctrines
;
Incarnation
;
Mysticism Judaism
;
History
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Judaism History Modern period, 1750-
;
Chassidismus
;
Judentum
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : incarnation and incarnational thinking -- Divinization and incarnational thinking in Hasidism: an overview -- Charisma speaking: uniqueness, incarnation, and sacred language (lashon ha-kodesh) in Nahman of Bratslav's self-fashioning -- Jewish ethics through a Hasidic lens: incarnation, the law, and the universal -- Malkhut as kenosis: malkhut and the zaddik in Yaʻakov Koppel Lifshitz of Mezritch's Shaʻarei Gan Eden -- "Brother where art thou?": reflections on Jesus in Martin Buber and the Hasidic master R. Shmuel Bornstein of Sochaczev -- Liberal Judaism, Christianity, and the specter of Hasidism.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=43201
