Living with Moshiach

Living with Moshiach
Author: Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Publisher: Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 9780826604682

A renowned scholar and theologian presents inspiring and articulate observations on the ultimate purpose of G-d's creation - the redemption by our righteous Moshiach. Based on the talks and writings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, these concise adaptations are arranged according to the weekly and holiday Torah portions. This volume unites these cogent insights with the well-known Chasidic adage, "one must live with the times," that is, take guidance from the appropriate Torah reading.

The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference

The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference
Author: David Berger
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2008-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 178694989X

This book is a history, an indictment, a lament, and an appeal, focusing on the messianic trend in Lubavitch hasidism. It records the shattering of one of Judaism's core beliefs and the remarkable equanimity with which the standard-bearers of Orthodoxy have allowed it to happen. This is a development of striking importance for the history of religions, and it is an earthquake in the history of Judaism. David Berger describes the unfolding of this historic phenomenon and proposes a strategy to contain it.

Dvar Malchus

Dvar Malchus
Author: Menachem Schneerson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2017-11-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781979797351

Open Secret

Open Secret
Author: Elliot R. Wolfson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2009-10-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 023152031X

Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994) was the seventh and seemingly last Rebbe of the Habad-Lubavitch dynasty. Marked by conflicting tendencies, Schneerson was a radical messianic visionary who promoted a conservative political agenda, a reclusive contemplative who built a hasidic sect into an international movement, and a man dedicated to the exposition of mysteries who nevertheless harbored many secrets. Schneerson astutely masked views that might be deemed heterodox by the canons of orthodoxy while engineering a fundamentalist ideology that could subvert traditional gender hierarchy, the halakhic distinction between permissible and forbidden, and the social-anthropological division between Jew and Gentile. While most literature on the Rebbe focuses on whether or not he identified with the role of Messiah, Elliot R. Wolfson, a leading scholar of Jewish mysticism and the phenomenology of religious experience, concentrates instead on Schneerson's apocalyptic sensibility and his promotion of a mystical consciousness that undermines all discrimination. For Schneerson, the ploy of secrecy is crucial to the dissemination of the messianic secret. To be enlightened messianically is to be delivered from all conceptual limitations, even the very notion of becoming emancipated from limitation. The ultimate liberation, or true and complete redemption, fuses the believer into an infinite essence beyond all duality, even the duality of being emancipated and not emancipated an emancipation, in other words, that emancipates one from the bind of emancipation. At its deepest level, Schneerson's eschatological orientation discerned that a spiritual master, if he be true, must dispose of the mask of mastery. Situating Habad's thought within the evolution of kabbalistic mysticism, the history of Western philosophy, and Mahayana Buddhism, Wolfson articulates Schneerson's rich theology and profound philosophy, concentrating on the nature of apophatic embodiment, semiotic materiality, hypernomian transvaluation, nondifferentiated alterity, and atemporal temporality.

A Time to Heal

A Time to Heal
Author:
Publisher: Ezra Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015-10-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780826690012

Current today as when originally provided, this volume is a collection of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's counsel to the bereaved whether responding to a widow struggling to explain her husband's death to her children, or to a community whose school was teh target of a terrorist attack, th eRebbe provided support and solace to individuals and commujnities explaining loss and tragedy, guiding them toward the hope for a brighter future.

The Rebbe

The Rebbe
Author: Samuel Heilman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2012-03-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0691154422

A biography of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson that discusses his childhood in Russia, education in Germany and Paris, messianic conviction, religious leadership, legacy, and other related topics.

What Will the World be Like?

What Will the World be Like?
Author: Adel Lebovics
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780922613564

What Will the World Be Like? Did you ever wonder what the future holds in store? Most people have, including young children who ask their parents probing questions. Jewish tradition has much to say about the era of Moshiach, and now a beautifully illustrated picture book provides these important answers for the very young. One Night after supper before she went to bed, Sarah looked uo at her father, and this is what she said, "What will the world be like?' A topic that intrigues children and adults alike, this book provides an exciting glimpse into the future!

On Eagles' Wings

On Eagles' Wings
Author: Hershel Brand
Publisher: Targum Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2002
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Awaiting the Moshiach is one of the underpinnings of Jewish belief, one of Maimonides's Thirteen Principles of Faith. In this important and groundbreaking work, the author gathers together the teachings of the Sages on this subject in an illuminating and thought-provoking question-and-answer format.