The Religious Thought of Hasidism: Text and Commentary

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Norman Lamm
KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 1999 - 711 pages
The Religious Thought of Hasidism: Text and Commentary offers a corrective to the prevailing impression of early Hasidism as incorrigibly and profoundly unitellectual. It presents annotated translations of selected passages arranged according to topic. Introductory sections provide an overview and a context for the material in each chapter, and a general introduction does the same for the volume as a whole. It sketches the historical background of the early hasidic movement, charts its central ideas in their intellectual and historical context--the wide range of Jewish religious and mystical thought. Unrivaled in its scope Religious Thought is a veritable encyclopedia of hasidic religious thought, covering all of the major topics and major hasidic thinkers of the first three generations, with occasional forays into later currents. It can be used as either a text or a supplement in courses in Jewish thought or theology, or even general courses in mystical thought or modern religious movements.

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Contents

PREFACE
xxix
FAITH BASED ON TRADITION NOT INVESTIGATION R Zevi Elimelekh
xxxi
NOTE TO THE READER
xxxv
Messianism
xxxvii
THE ZADDIKS DEVEKUT AND HIS PASTORAL DUTIES R Elimelekh
xliii
CHAPTER ONE GOD AND PROVIDENCE
1
Benei Yisaskhar Adar 3 derush
2
Noam Elimelekh to Hukkat s v o yomar dehineh and Noam Elimelekh to Yitro
4
TRUE ZADDIKIM AND JEWISH DEVILS R Nahman of Bratslav
33
A NEGATIVE EFFECT OF THE ZADDIK R Yitzhak Yehudah Yehiel of Komarno
34
INTELLECTUAL SUBMISSION TO THE ZADDIK R Nahman of Bratslav
39
Or haEmet p 4
45
Or haEmet p 4
49
THE JEWISH SOUL R Shneur Zalman of Liady
61
CHAPTER THREE FAITH
67
Degel Maḥaneh Ephraim to Ekev beginning
94

The Importance of Study
6
Peri haAretz to Noah
7
Likkutim Yekarim no 199 p
8
TWO KINDS OF REPENTANCE R Gedaliah of Linitz
10
Liady
13
Tanya Likkutei Amarim chap 41
13
IN SOLITUDE R Nahman of Bratslav
13
Liady
13
The Descent of the Zaddik
13
AN INTERMEDIARY STAGE R Mosheh
13
HUMILITY AND SADNESS R Elimelekh of Lizhensk
13
LOVE AND HUMILITY R Zevi Hirsch of Zhidachov
13
Likkutei Etzot Gaavah vaAnavah 165b no 17
13
Suffering in Love
13
WHY DESIRE LIFE? R Zev Wolf of Zhitomir
13
THE ETERNITY OF ISRAEL R Zevi Elimelekh of Dinov
13
Maggid Devarav leYaakov no 1
13
LISHMAH AND SHELO LISHMAH R Elimelekh of Lizhensk
13
Likkutei Amarim p 14d cited in Sefer Besht to Vaethanan no 13
13
SIMPLE FAITH IS MANDATORY FOR JEWS R Zevi Elimelekh of Dinov
14
THE REWARD OF STUDY FOR ITS OWN SAKE R Zevi Hirsch of Zhidachov
15
THE DESCENT OF GOD AND THE ASCENT OF MAN R
16
NONE IS EXCLUDED FROM REPENTANCE R Gedaliah of Linitz
20
THE ZADDIK AS A MIRACLE WORKER R Nahman of Bratslav
21
THE PLACE THAT WASNT R Yaakov Yosef of Polennoye
22
THREE ADDITIONAL TYPES OF LOVE R Zadok haKohen of Lublin
26
Toledot Yaakov Yosef to Yitro sec 6 s v umeshani
27
Bratslav
29
Netiv Mitzvotekha
95
THE BITTER WATERS OF TORAH R Yitzhak Yehudah Yehiel of Komarno
109
Peri haAretz to Beshallah
114
Peri haAretz to Beshallah
115
Likkutei Moharan I
123
THE SOURCE OF HIS LOVE
130
Kitvei Kodesh of Besht and the Maggid p
131
A Story
140
Emet vaZeddek Emunah no
150
CONSTANT DEVEKUT Besht
169
DEVEKUT AND YIHUD R Shneur Zalman of Liady
171
CHAPTER SIX WORSHIP SERVICE OF GOD
173
PRAYER AND TORAH R Nahman of Bratslav
186
THE EXTENT OF DEVEKUT Besht
200
DEVEKUT AND EXILE R Dov Baer the Maggid of Mezeritch
208
Additional Notes
215
Sur meRa vaAseh Tov see Zevi Hirsh Eichenstein Turn Aside from Evil and
241
CHAPTER EIGHT THE ZADDIK
251
Defining the Zaddik
254
Teshuot Hen Haazinu s v kenesher ed Jerusalem p 112a
366
Kedushat Shabbat no
368
Likkutei Etzot Gaavah vaAnavah 165b no 17
450
Reality or Illusion?
460
EVIL AND THE ULTIMATE GOOD R Nahman of Bratslav
466
THE ROOTS OF EVIL AND GOOD R Zadok haKohen of Lublin
470
TZIMTZUM AND SUFFERING R Yaakov Yosef of Polennoye
642
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