The Religious Thought of Hasidism: Text and CommentaryNorman 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 |
DEVEKUT AND YIḤUD CONTINUED R Dov Ber the Maggid of Mezeritch | 5 |
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 |
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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 |
REPENTANCE AS ELEVATION OF THE SPARKS Besht | 347 |
THE SINNER HELPS THE RIGHTEOUS R Elimelekh of Lizhensk | 362 |
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 |
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Common terms and phrases
acosmism Additional Notes alef attribute Baal Shem Tov Benei Yisaskhar Berdichev Besht Bratslav chap created Creation Creator devekut divine immanence doctrine Ein-Sof Elimelekh of Dinov Elimelekh of Lizhensk essence evil existence faith God's ha-Kohen of Lublin ha-Yiḥud Habad halakhic hasidic literature hasidic masters hasidic texts hasidic thinkers hasidic thought hasidim Hayyim Hence Hokhmah Holy ideas immanence intellectual Israel Jewish Judaism Kabbalah kabbalistic Kedushat Levi Keter Levi Yitzhak life-force Likkutei Amarim Likkutei Etzot Lord love and fear lower unity Maggid of Mezeritch Maimonides Malkhut man's means Menahem Mendel mitzvah mitzvot Nahman of Bratslav Noam Elimelekh NORMAN LAMM philosophical prayer Rabbi ruaḥ Sabbatean Sages sefirot selection Shekhinah Shem Tov Shema Shneur Zalman soul Source spiritual Talmud Tanya Tetragrammaton tion Toledot Yaakov Yosef Torah study tradition transcendence tzimtzum verse wisdom words Yitzhak of Berdichev Yosef of Polennoye zaddik Zadok ha-Kohen Zalman of Liady Zevi Elimelekh Zevi Hirsch Zidkat ha-Zaddik Zohar
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