Cargando…
Hasidism, suffering, and renewal : the prewar and Holocaust legacy of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira /
"Reconsiders the legacy of an important Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator who confronted the dilemmas of modernity after World War I and whose writing constitutes a unique testimony to religious experience and its rupture in the Warsaw Ghetto"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2021]
|
| Colección: | SUNY series in contemporary Jewish thought.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- What Is Hasidism, and Who Is R. Shapira?
- Renewal, Vitality, and the Human Subject
- Rupture, Efficacy, and the End of Meaning?
- Hasidism, Neo-Hasidism, Hasidic Modernism
- Notes
- Part I: Hasidism and Renewal
- 1 The Place of Piety: Piaseczno in the Landscape of Polish Hasidism
- Hasidism in Piaseczno
- Tsaddikim in and of Piaseczno
- Piaseczno in Warsaw
- Piaseczno in Hasidism
- Small Is Beautiful
- Limitations
- Toward Counter-Reformation
- Conclusions
- Notes
- 2 The Rebbe of Piaseczno: Between Two Trends in Hasidism
- Between Ecstasy/Prophecy and Magic
- Spiritual Techniques and Prophecy
- On Hasidism before and after Shapira: Some Observations
- Notes
- 3 The Devotional Talmud: Study as a Sacred Quest
- Renewing the Talmud
- Sacred Study
- Sacred Knowing
- Sacred Self
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 4 Mystical Fraternities: Jerusalem, Tiberius, and Warsaw: A Comparative Study of Goals, Structures, and Methods
- Introduction
- The Goals of Benei Mahshavah Tovah
- The Society: Structure and Activities
- Pre-Hasidic Mystical Fraternities
- Hasidic Mystical Fraternities in Eighteenth-Century Tiberius
- Hillel Zeitlin and his Mystical Fraternities
- Postscript and Conclusions
- Notes
- 5 Self-Creation through Texts: Kalonymus Kalman Shapira's Incarnational Theology
- Holy Stones, Divine Bodies
- Irreducible Letters, Irreducible Bodies
- Engraving the Self
- Self-Creation through Writing
- The Ingathering of Alterity
- Alterity and the Body
- Self-Creation and the Divine Creator
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 6 Hasidism in Dialogue with Modernity: Rabbi Kalonymus Shapira's Derekh ha-Melekh
- The Historical Backdrop
- Facets of the Self
- Developing a Language of Mindfulness
- Real Presence
- Readers and Authors, Bones and Books
- Notes
- Part II: Text, Theodicy, and Suffering
- 7 A New Reading of the Rebbe of Piaseczno's Holocaust-Era Sermons: A Review of Daniel Reiser's Critical Edition
- Notes
- 8 Creative Writing in the Shadow of Death: Psychological and Phenomenological Aspects of Rabbi Shapira's Manuscript "Sermons from the Years of Rage"
- Sermons from the Years of Rage
- A Philology of Suffering
- A Psychology of Suffering: Writing in the Shadow of Death
- A Phenomenology of Suffering
- Notes
- 9 Miriam, Moses, and the Divinity of Children: Human Individuation at the Cusp of Persistence and Perishability
- Introduction and Section One
- Section Two: Eternity Realized through Children
- Section Three: Time and Individuation
- Section Four: Schoolchildren as the Face of the Shekhinah
- Section Five: The Omnipresence of God, the Preciousness of Individuals, the Suffering of Children
- Section Six: Miriam as Model for Bold Religious Initiative
- Moses as Model of Leadership through Imperfection
- Summary and Discussion
- Coda: Miriam Shows the Way of Leadership to Moses