Studies in East European Jewish mysticism and Hasidism /
Joseph Weiss (1933-69) was committed to identifying and describing the mystical element in Hasidism and to unravelling the spiritual and historical meaning of the Hasidic movement. The studies in this volume, most of them written more than 40 years ago, are still quoted in every serious study of Has...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization,
[2013]
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Edición: | First digital edition. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Some notes on the social background of early Hasidism
- A circle of pneumatics in pre-Hasidism
- Contemplative mysticism and "Faith" in Hasidic piety
- Torah study in early Hasidism
- Via passiva in early Hasidism
- The Kavvanoth of Prayer in early Hasidism
- Petitionary prayer in early Hasidism
- Contemplation as solitude
- Contemplation as self-abandonment in the writings of Hayyim Haika of Amdura
- R. Abraham Kalisker's concept of communion with God and men
- The authorship and literary unity of the 'Darkhei Yesharim'
- The Saddik : altering the divine will
- The Hasidic way of Habad
- Some notes on ecstasy in Ḥabad Hasidism
- A late Jewish utopia of religious freedom
- Sense and nonsense in defining Judaism : the strange case of Naḥman of Brazlav.