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Hasidism - Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World, Paperback / softback Book

Hasidism - Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World Paperback / softback

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Hasidism has attracted, repelled, and bewildered philosophers, historians, and theologians since its inception in the eighteenth century.

In Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World, Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Shonkoff present students and scholars with a vibrant and polyphonic set of Hasidic confrontations with the modern world.

In this collection, they show that the modern Hasid marks not only another example of a Jewish pietist, but someone who is committed to an ethos of seeking wisdom, joy, and intimacy with the divine. While this volume focuses on Hasidism, it wrestles with a core set of questions that permeate modern Jewish thought and religious thought more generally: What is the relationship between God and the world?

What is the relationship between God and the human being?

But Hasidic thought is cast with mystical, psychological, and even magical accents, and offers radically different answers to core issues of modern concern.

The editors draw selections from an  array of genres including women’s supplications; sermons and homilies; personal diaries and memoirs; correspondence; stories; polemics; legal codes; and rabbinic response.

These selections consciously move between everyday lived experience and the most ineffable mystical secrets, reflecting the multidimensional nature of this unusual religious and social movement.

The editors include canonical texts from the first generation of Hasidic leaders up through present-day ultra-orthodox, as well as neo-Hasidic voices and, in so doing, demonstrate the unfolding of a rich and complex phenomenon that continues to evolve today.

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