Your Word is Fire: The Hasidic Masters on Contemplative Prayer - Softcover

Arthur; Green

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805208429 ISBN 13: 9780805208429

Publisher: Schocken Books, 1987

Synopsis

Selections from Hasidic teachings identify the obstacles to prayer and, through parables and explanations, tell how to find meaning in prayer

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Review

"According to Hasidism, the authors tell us, 'There is no higher sacred act than that of helping another to discover the presence of God within his own soul.' Green and Holtz have themselves performed just such an act." Lawrence Fine, Judaism

Opens up some of the more accessible realms of the Jewish inner life. Eugene Borowitz, Sh ma

Elegantly constructed a work equally useful to the scholarly and general reader. Joel Rosenberg, genesis 2

A new generation of Jewish scholars has endeavored to make both the spiritual contents and the religious setting of Hasidic teaching accessible to the modern student and seeker . This fine book belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in a Jewish understanding of prayer as a way of knowing God. Ya Qub ibn Yusef, Gnosis Magazine

[They] have translated the Hasidic masters with sensitivity and honesty; they do not attempt to blur or avoid the often highly erotic imagery . By making the words of the Hasidic masters accessible in English [they] have added new wings to our prayer. James B. Rosenberg, The Jewish Spectator"

"According to Hasidism, the authors tell us, 'There is no higher sacred act than that of helping another to discover the presence of God within his own soul.' Green and Holtz have themselves performed just such an act." Lawrence Fine, Judaism

Opens up some of the more accessible realms of the Jewish inner life. Eugene Borowitz, Sh ma

Elegantly constructed a work equally useful to the scholarly and general reader. Joel Rosenberg, genesis 2

A new generation of Jewish scholars has endeavored to make both the spiritual contents and the religious setting of Hasidic teaching accessible to the modern student and seeker . This fine book belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in a Jewish understanding of prayer as a way of knowing God. Ya Qub ibn Yusef, Gnosis Magazine

[They] have translated the Hasidic masters with sensitivity and honesty; they do not attempt to blur or avoid the often highly erotic imagery . By making the words of the Hasidic masters accessible in English [they] have added new wings to our prayer. James B. Rosenberg, The Jewish Spectator"

"According to Hasidism, the authors tell us, 'There is no higher sacred act than that of helping another to discover the presence of God within his own soul.' Green and Holtz have themselves performed just such an act."
Lawrence Fine, Judaism

Opens up some of the more accessible realms of the Jewish inner life.
Eugene Borowitz, Sh ma

Elegantly constructed a work equally useful to the scholarly and general reader.
Joel Rosenberg, genesis 2

A new generation of Jewish scholars has endeavored to make both the spiritual contents and the religious setting of Hasidic teaching accessible to the modern student and seeker . This fine book belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in a Jewish understanding of prayer as a way of knowing God.
Ya Qub ibn Yusef, Gnosis Magazine

[They] have translated the Hasidic masters with sensitivity and honesty; they do not attempt to blur or avoid the often highly erotic imagery . By making the words of the Hasidic masters accessible in English [they] have added new wings to our prayer.
James B. Rosenberg, The Jewish Spectator

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"According to Hasidism, the authors tell us, 'There is no higher sacred act than that of helping another to discover the presence of God within his own soul.' Green and Holtz have themselves performed just such an act."
--Lawrence Fine, Judaism

"Opens up some of the more accessible realms of the Jewish inner life."
--Eugene Borowitz, Sh'ma

"Elegantly constructed...a work equally useful to the scholarly and general reader."
--Joel Rosenberg, genesis 2

"A new generation of Jewish scholars has endeavored to make both the spiritual contents and the religious setting of Hasidic teaching accessible to the modern student and seeker.... This fine book...belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in a Jewish understanding of prayer as a way of knowing God."
--Ya'Qub ibn Yusef, Gnosis Magazine

"[They] have translated the Hasidic masters with sensitivity and honesty; they do not attempt to blur or avoid the often highly erotic imagery.... By making the words of the Hasidic masters accessible in English [they] have added new wings to our prayer."
--James B. Rosenberg, The Jewish Spectator

About the Author

Barry W. Holtz is dean of the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish
Education at The Jewish Theological Seminary, where he is also the Theodore and
Florence Baumritter Professor of Jewish Education. His books include, among
others, Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish d104s and Your Word Is
Fire: The Hasidic Masters on Contemplative Prayer (Jewish Lights), the latter coauthored
with Arthur Green.

Edition details

• Publisher: Schocken Books
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805208429
• ISBN 13: 9780805208429
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 133