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| Author | : Judah ben Samuel |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 456 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
The original work has been a favorite of both scholars and laypeople for its straightforward style, in contrast to other medieval writings on ethics that are largely theoretical and reflective.
| Author | : Ivan G. Marcus |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2018-07-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0812250095 |
In "Sefer Hasidim" and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe, Ivan G. Marcus proposes a new paradigm for understanding how Sefer Hasidim, or "Book of the Pietists," was composed and how it extended an earlier Byzantine rabbinic tradition of authorship into medieval European Jewish culture.
| Author | : Ivan G. Marcus |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2018-05-24 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0812295005 |
Composed in Germany in the early thirteenth century by Judah ben Samuel he-hasid, Sefer Hasidim, or "Book of the Pietists," is a compendium of religious instruction that portrays the everyday life of Jews as they lived together with and apart from Christians in towns such as Speyer, Worms, Mainz, and Regensburg. A charismatic religious teacher who recorded hundreds of original stories that mirrored situations in medieval social living, Judah's messages advocated praying slowly and avoiding honor, pleasure, wealth, and the lures of unmarried sex. Although he failed to enact his utopian vision of a pietist Jewish society, his collected writings would help shape the religious culture of Ashkenazic Judaism for centuries. In "Sefer Hasidim" and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe, Ivan G. Marcus proposes a new paradigm for understanding how this particular book was composed. The work, he contends, was an open text written by a single author in hundreds of disjunctive, yet self-contained, segments, which were then combined into multiple alternative versions, each equally authoritative. While Sefer Hasidim offers the clearest example of this model of composition, Marcus argues that it was not unique: the production of Ashkenazic books in small and easily rearranged paragraphs is a literary and cultural phenomenon quite distinct from anything practiced by the Christian authors of northern Europe or the Sephardic Jews of the south. According to Marcus, Judah, in authoring Sefer Hasidim in this manner, not only resisted Greco-Roman influences on Ashkenazic literary form but also extended an earlier Byzantine rabbinic tradition of authorship into medieval European Jewish culture.
| Author | : Immanuel Etkes |
| Publisher | : Brandeis University Press |
| Total Pages | : 357 |
| Release | : 2014-12-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1611686776 |
Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady (1745-1812), in imperial Russia, was the founder and first rebbe of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism that flourishes to the present day. The Chabad-Lubavitch movement he founded in the region now known as Belarus played, and continues to play, an important part in the modernization processes and postwar revitalization of Orthodox Jewry. Drawing on historical source materials that include Shneur Zalman's own works and correspondence, as well as documents concerning his imprisonment and interrogation by the Russian authorities, Etkes focuses on Zalman's performance as a Hasidic leader, his unique personal qualities and achievements, and the role he played in the conflict between Hasidim and its opponents. In addition, Etkes draws a vivid picture of the entire generation that came under Rabbi Shneur Zalman's influence. This comprehensive biography will appeal to scholars and students of the history of Hasidism, East European Jewry, and Jewish spirituality.
| Author | : Dovid Sears |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1568219725 |
The original teachings of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of chasidism, on more than fifty subjects.
| Author | : Joshua Trachtenberg |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 393 |
| Release | : 2012-10-08 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0812208331 |
Alongside the formal development of Judaism from the eleventh through the sixteenth centuries, a robust Jewish folk religion flourished—ideas and practices that never met with wholehearted approval by religious leaders yet enjoyed such wide popularity that they could not be altogether excluded from the religion. According to Joshua Trachtenberg, it is not possible truly to understand the experience and history of the Jewish people without attempting to recover their folklife and beliefs from centuries past. Jewish Magic and Superstition is a masterful and utterly fascinating exploration of religious forms that have all but disappeared yet persist in the imagination. The volume begins with legends of Jewish sorcery and proceeds to discuss beliefs about the evil eye, spirits of the dead, powers of good, the famous legend of the golem, procedures for casting spells, the use of gems and amulets, how to battle spirits, the ritual of circumcision, herbal folk remedies, fortune telling, astrology, and the interpretation of dreams. First published more than sixty years ago, Trachtenberg's study remains the foundational scholarship on magical practices in the Jewish world and offers an understanding of folk beliefs that expressed most eloquently the everyday religion of the Jewish people.
| Author | : Susan Weissman |
| Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
| Total Pages | : 457 |
| Release | : 2020-07-23 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1789624290 |
Through a detailed analysis of ghost tales in the Ashkenazi pietistic work Sefer ḥasidim, Susan Weissman documents a major transformation in Jewish attitudes and practices regarding the dead and the afterlife that took place between the rabbinic period and medieval times. She reveals that a huge influx of Germano-Christian beliefs, customs, and fears relating to the dead and the afterlife seeped into medieval Ashkenazi society among both elite and popular groups. In matters of sin, penance, and posthumous punishment, the infiltration of Christian notions was so strong as to effect a radical departure in Pietist thinking from rabbinic thought and to spur outright contradiction of talmudic principles regarding the realm of the hereafter. Although it is primarily a study of the culture of a medieval Jewish enclave, this book demonstrates how seminal beliefs of medieval Christendom and monastic ideals could take root in a society with contrary religious values—even in the realm of doctrinal belief.
| Author | : Jacob ben Solomon Ibn Ḥabib |
| Publisher | : Jason Aronson |
| Total Pages | : 864 |
| Release | : 1999-10 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0765760827 |
This is the only complete English translation of the classic Jewish text known as Ein Yaakov. Ein Yaakov is a collection of all the agaddah (the non-legal) material of the Talmud, compiled by Rabbi Yaakov ibn Chaviv, the fifteenth century talmudist. Scattered among the more than 2,700 pages of the Talmud, aggadah focuses on the ethical and inspirational aspects of the Torah way of life. Through a wealth of homilies, anecdotes, allegories, pithy sayings, and interpretations of biblical verses, it has been said that the aggadah brings you closer to God and his Torah.
| Author | : Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 2015-10-12 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780826608512 |
Talks by the Rebbe Rayatz in 5700, late 1939 to late 1940, for the first time in English.1. Sichos delivered in winter in Europe2.Sichos from his arrival in New York on March 19, 1940, until Rosh Hashanah eve.After surviving a lifetime of painful and life-threatening crisis, Yaakov Avinu "yearned to live a life of tranquility." Nevertheless, the A-mighty said: "Are tzaddikim not satisfied with what awaits them in the World to Come, and they also seek tranquility in this world?!"Likewise, the Previous Rebbe, went through more turbulence then tranquility. After torment,incarceration and capital sentence in Russia and other challenges in Latvia and Poland, he could have wanted to live a quiet life but he had yet to endure three months in the blockade of Warsaw, horrors of which are graphically described in chapter 8. After his remarkable release and a brief stopover in Latvia, he went from Europe throughSweden to America, which did not greet the Rebbe Rayatz with a smile in that the complacency of the Jewish communal establishment, including some the veteran chassdic migrants who, instead of working desperately to revive and actualize their Old World ideals, had allowed them to fade. Yet the Rebbe Rayatz never allowed his sense of trauma to paralyze his optimism, but rather it spurred him ahead to vigorous and pioneering outreach activity.Talks in this book were delivered in Riga, New York and Lakewood. They pulsate with creative and inspiring interpretations of Biblical and Talmudic teachings; heartwarming descriptions of incidents and encounters in Lubavitch; pungent admonition; candid childhood memories; energizing stories and oral traditions, and colorful personalities whose portraits spring into life.
| Author | : Joseph Dan |
| Publisher | : Paulist Press |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780809127696 |
Here are previously unavailable texts, including The Book Bahir and the writings of the Iyyum circle, that were written during the first one hundred years of this movement that was to become the most important current in Jewish mysticism. This movement began in the late 12th century among Rabbinic Judaism in southern Europe.
