Hasidism Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World (Paperback)

Language: English

Published by Brandeis University Press, Hanover, 2020

168458017X / 9781684580170

Series: Book 45 of 64 - The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry

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Paperback. Hasidism has attracted, repelled, and bewildered philosophers, historians, and theologians since its inception in the eighteenth century. In Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World, Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Shonkoff present students and scholars with a vibrant and polyphonic set of Hasidic confrontations with the modern world. In this collection, they show that the modern Hasid marks not only another example of a Jewish pietist, but someone who is committed to an ethos of seeking wisdom, joy, and intimacy with the divine. While this volume focuses on Hasidism, it wrestles with a core set of questions that permeate modern Jewish thought and religious thought more generally: What is the relationship between God and the world? What is the relationship between God and the human being? But Hasidic thought is cast with mystical, psychological, and even magical accents, and offers radically different answers to core issues of modern concern. The editors draw selections from an array of genres including womens supplications; sermons and homilies; personal diaries and memoirs; correspondence; stories; polemics; legal codes; and rabbinic response. These selections consciously move between everyday lived experience and the most ineffable mystical secrets, reflecting the multidimensional nature of this unusual religious and social movement. The editors include canonical texts from the first generation of Hasidic leaders up through present-day ultra-orthodox, as well as neo-Hasidic voices and, in so doing, demonstrate the unfolding of a rich and complex phenomenon that continues to evolve today. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Hasidism Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World (Paperback)
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Ariel Evan Mayse
Publisher
Brandeis University Press, Hanover
Publication year
2020
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Paperback
Language
English
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Series
Book 45 of 64: The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry

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