The Hasidic tale /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nigal, Gedalyah (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Hebrew
Published: Oxford : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2014.
Series:Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
Subjects:
Hasidim > Legends > Themes, motives.
Hasidic parables > Themes, motives.
Hassidim > Légende > Thèmes, motifs.
Paraboles hassidiques > Thèmes, motifs.
Hassidim > Légendes > Thèmes, motifs.
Hasidim.
Chassidismus
Erzählung
Legende
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Hasidic tale as perceived by Hasidim
  • The tsadik, his followers, and his opponents
  • Matchmaking and marriages
  • The blessing of children: birth and offspring
  • Agunot
  • A life of sin
  • Illness and physicians
  • The dead, burial, and the world to come
  • Transmigration of the soul and dybbuks
  • The powers of evil and the war against them
  • Apostasy and apostates
  • Ritual slaughterers
  • The Tamim: the simple person
  • Hidden tsadikim
  • Hospitality
  • The prophet Elijah
  • The Ba'al Shem Tov's unsuccessful pilgrimage to the land of Israel.

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