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Author | : Herbert Weiner |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1997-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0684843250 |
From Simon & Schuster, Nine and a Half Mystics is Herbert Weiner's exploration of the Kabbalah today. This revised edition of a modern classic includes a new foreword by Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel and an afterword by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, editor of The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition, as well as a coda by the author in which he explores the many paths being traveled today in the search for the treasures of the Kabbalah.
Author | : Herbert Weiner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Cabala |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Perle Besserman |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2018-08-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1611806232 |
Unraveling the web of ancient traditions hidden in such texts as the Sefer Yetzirah and the Zohar, this book traces history and offers an accessible introduction to understanding Kabbalah and its practices. Jewish mysticism has flourished—sometimes brilliantly, sometimes darkly—over five thousand years. This pioneering, popular text on Jewish mysticism was the first written for a general audience, and in it, Perle Besserman offers a lively and accessible introduction to the methods, schools, and practitioners of this intriguing world. She traces the history of Kabbalah through the lives of its illustrious scholars and saints and unravels the web of ancient traditions hidden in such texts as Sefer Yetzirah and the Zohar. Running through these pages are the words of the outstanding Kabbalists and mystics—including Simeon bar Yohai, Isaac Luria, Abraham Abulafia, and the Baal Shem Tov—giving instructions on practices ranging from contemplation of the Bible’s secret teachings to ritual, ecstatic prayer, and intensive meditation.
Author | : Arthur Green |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780804749084 |
Please see the Zohar Home Page for ancillary materials, including the publication schedule, press release, Aramaic text, questions, and answers.
Author | : Ezra Glinter |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2024-10-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300280378 |
The life and thought of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, one of the most influential—and controversial—rabbis in modern Judaism “Accessible, informed, and balanced. . . . The author manages to tread on fragile ground with aplomb. . . . An exceptional tool for understanding.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The Chabad-Lubavitch movement, one of the world’s best-known Hasidic groups, is driven by the belief that we are on the verge of the messianic age. The man most recognized for the movement’s success is the seventh and last Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994), believed by many of his followers to be the Messiah. While hope of redemption has sustained the Jewish people through exile and persecution, it has also upended Jewish society with its apocalyptic and anarchic tendencies. So it is not surprising that Schneerson’s messianic fervor made him one of the most controversial rabbinic leaders of the twentieth century. How did he go from being an ordinary rabbi’s son in the Russian Empire to achieving status as a mystical sage? How did he revitalize a centuries-old Hasidic movement, construct an outreach empire of unprecedented scope, and earn the admiration and condemnation of political, communal, and religious leaders in America and abroad? Ezra Glinter’s deeply researched account is the first biography of Schneerson to combine a nonpartisan view of his life, work, and impact with an insider’s understanding of the ideology that drove him and that continues to inspire the Chabad-Lubavitch movement today.
Author | : Naftali Loewenthal |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2019-12-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1789628202 |
The Habad school of hasidism is distinguished today from other hasidic groups by its famous emphasis on outreach, on messianism, and on empowering women. Hasidism Beyond Modernity provides a critical, thematic study of the movement from its beginnings, showing how its unusual qualities evolved. Topics investigated include the theoretical underpinning of the outreach ethos; the turn towards women in the twentieth century; new attitudes to non-Jews; the role of the individual in the hasidic collective; spiritual contemplation in the context of modernity; the quest for inclusivism in the face of prevailing schismatic processes; messianism in both spiritual and political forms; and the direction of the movement after the passing of its seventh rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in 1994. Attention is given to many contrasts: pre-modern, modern, and postmodern conceptions of Judaism; the clash between maintaining an enclave and outreach models of Jewish society; particularist and universalist trends; and the subtle interplay of mystical faith and rationality. Some of the chapters are new; others, published in an earlier form, have been updated to take account of recent scholarship. This book presents an in-depth study of an intriguing movement which takes traditional hasidism beyond modernity.
Author | : Donald Friedman |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2024-06-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 147665199X |
Phyllis was a vital, single woman, a photographer and writer, who was enjoying life in the city when she was suddenly stricken by Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), a disease rarer than a lightning strike that spreads, incredibly, via a non-living molecule called a prion. Terrified to realize she couldn't perform her duties at work, Phyllis very soon couldn't even find her way to her desk or to her apartment from the corner store. Informed of his sister's diagnosis with this dementing and always fatal illness, her estranged brother, her only living relative, brought her home (against the advice of her doctors) to care for her with his wife. The profoundly affecting memoir illuminates how closeness can deepen when words are lost--an inspiring truth to anyone with a friend or family member with dementia.
Author | : Herbert Weiner |
Publisher | : Free Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : |
A thoughtful and entertaining search for contemporary insights from the Kabbala, Judaism's "hidden wisdom", and its present-day mystics, this newly revised edition of the classic work explores the mystical tradition in Judaism.
Author | : Gershon David Hundert |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 559 |
Release | : 1991-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0814734707 |
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.