Studies in East European Jewish Mysticism and Hasidism
Title | Studies in East European Jewish Mysticism and Hasidism PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Weiss |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 1997-11-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1909821861 |
A classic text for all those interested in Jewish religious developments in eastern Europe, this paperback has a new introduction locating Weiss's work in the context of contemporary scholarship and the current resurgence of hasidism.
Studies in East European Jewish Mysticism
Title | Studies in East European Jewish Mysticism PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph George Weiss |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | |
Genre | Hasidism |
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Holy Dissent
Title | Holy Dissent PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn Dynner |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 701 |
Release | 2011-10-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0814335977 |
Jewish and Christian studies scholars as well as historians of Eastern Europe will benefit from the analysis of Holy Dissent.
Studies in Eastern European Mysticism
Title | Studies in Eastern European Mysticism PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Weiss |
Publisher | Associated University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 1984-07-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780838630402 |
Knowledge of God and the Development of Early Kabbalah
Title | Knowledge of God and the Development of Early Kabbalah PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Dauber |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2012-08-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004234268 |
In Knowledge of God and the Development of Early Kabbalah, Jonathan Dauber offers a fresh consideration of the emergence of Kabbalah against the backdrop of a re-evaluation of the relationship between Kabbalistic and philosophic discourse.
The Messianic Secret of Hasidism
Title | The Messianic Secret of Hasidism PDF eBook |
Author | Mor Altshuler |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 2006-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9047410831 |
This book goes back to the early days of Hasidism and retells its beginning with an esoteric circle of messianic Kabbalists that established the first Hasidic court. Paradoxically, their failure to bring redemption enabled the growth of Hasidism from a small group of devotees to a mass movement, still influential throughout the Jewish world.
From Something to Nothing
Title | From Something to Nothing PDF eBook |
Author | Harry Fox |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 562 |
Release | 2019-05-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1527535037 |
Jewish mysticism approaches God as no-thing or nothing, reflecting Judaism’s traditional identification of God as incorporeal. Whereas technical philosophical language often employed to discuss Jewish mysticism has a tendency to ward off otherwise interested readers, this study sufficiently breaks down the technical language of Jewish mysticism in its various expressions to allow a beginner to benefit from what may otherwise be indescribable and only approached by consideration of what is not rather than what is. Integral to the title, From Something to Nothing, is the concept that God cannot be something, because that would be restricting, so God is simply no-thing. Ironically, the conventional religious expression for the biblical notion of creation is “something from nothing”, whereas the title of this volume is its precise opposite, which may at first seem to be illogical – creation in reverse. However, in a volume dedicated to various deliberations on magic and mysticism, the ultimate reality may receive expression as nothingness, that is, no-thingness, no quality associated with things. What adds to our difficulty today is that nothingness is inextricably linked with silence. Is silence also an element or indication of an ultimate reality or its absence? Or is it merely the reflection of nothing whatsoever? This is at the heart of modern debates between atheists and believers. Believers feel that even this silence speaks to this ultimate reality, whereas atheists claim that if you cannot show it, then you do not know it. In other words, believers are victims of their own wishful thinking. From Something to Nothing memorializes Canadian mystic and scholar Zalman Schachter Shalomi, z”l, engaging in particular aspects that he addressed at some phase of his colourful and erudite life, providing the reader with a broad spectrum of both phenomenological and intellectual topics.