Tracing the footprints of messianic mysteries, it seems that the most esoteric secrets sometimes surface ... However, the weaker aspect of this methodology is the relatively minor attention paid to the inner history of Hasidic texts.
Author: Mor Altshuler
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789047410836
Category: History
Page: 452
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This book goes back to the early days of Hasidism and retells its beginning with an esoteric circle of messianic Kabbalists that established the first Hasidic court. Paradoxically, their failure to bring redemption enabled the growth of Hasidism from a small group of devotees to a mass movement, still influential throughout the Jewish world.
See Scholem, “Martin Buber's Interpretation of Hasidism,” in The Messianic Idea in Judaism, 227–50. ... For another view on Hasidism and messianism, see Mor Altshuler, The Messianic Secret of Hasidism (Leiden: Brill, 2006). 8.
Author: Michael L. Morgan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253014771
Category: Religion
Page: 442
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Over the centuries, the messianic tradition has provided the language through which modern Jewish philosophers, socialists, and Zionists envisioned a utopian future. Michael L. Morgan, Steven Weitzman, and an international group of leading scholars ask new questions and provide new ways of thinking about this enduring Jewish idea. Using the writings of Gershom Scholem, which ranged over the history of messianic belief and its conflicted role in the Jewish imagination, these essays put aside the boundaries that divide history from philosophy and religion to offer new perspectives on the role and relevance of messianism today.
Previous discussions of esotericism and Ḥasidism, as one might expect, have often focused on the issue of messianism. Two recent works worthy of note are altshuler, The messianic Secret of hasidism and Mark, Scroll of Secrets.
Author: Elliot R. Wolfson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231146319
Category: Habad
Page: 473
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Annotation Situating Habad's thought within the evolution of Kabbalistic mysticism, the history of Western philosophy & Mahayana Buddhism, Wolfson focuses on the nature of apophatic embodiment, semiotic materiality, hypernomian transvaluation, nondifferentiated alterity & atemporal temporality.
In the Ba'al Shem Tov's account, in contrast, the messiah's words reframe the dialectics of the talmudic passage to set out a radically new mission, imposed from above and ... 5 Altshuler, The Messianic Secret of Hasidism, 26–7.
Author: Ora Wiskind–Elper
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9781786949660
Category: Religion
Page: 233
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Hasidism, a movement of religious awakening and social reform, originated in the mid-eighteenth century. After two and a half centuries of crisis, upheaval, and renewal, it remains a vibrant way of life and a compelling aspect of Jewish experience. This book explores the profound intellectual and religious issues that the hasidic masters raised in their Torah commentary, and brings to the fore the living qualities of their sermons.
... the neutralization of the messianic element cited below in note 138, see Buber, The Origin and Meaning of Hasidism, ... The Messianic Secret of Hasidism (Leiden: Brill, 2006); Zvi Mark, Scroll of Secrets: The Hidden Messianic Vision ...
Author: Glenn Dynner
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814335977
Category: History
Page: 416
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Brings together highly regarded scholars of Jewish and Christian mysticism in Eastern Europe to analyze the overlap of mysticism in the two religions.
This is evident from R. Joseph Isaac Schneersohn's promotion of acute messianic tension and expectation during the ... 19 See Altshuler, 'The First Tzaddik of Hasidism', and id., The Messianic Secret of Hasidism, for the claim that ...
Author: Naftali Loewenthal
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9781789628203
Category: Religion
Page: 445
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The Habad school of hasidism is distinguished today from other hasidic groups by its famous emphasis on outreach, on messianism, and on empowering women. Hasidism Beyond Modernity provides a critical, thematic study of the movement from its beginnings, showing how its unusual qualities evolved. Topics investigated include the theoretical underpinning of the outreach ethos; the turn towards women in the twentieth century; new attitudes to non-Jews; the role of the individual in the hasidic collective; spiritual contemplation in the context of modernity; the quest for inclusivism in the face of prevailing schismatic processes; messianism in both spiritual and political forms; and the direction of the movement after the passing of its seventh rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in 1994. Attention is given to many contrasts: pre-modern, modern, and postmodern conceptions of Judaism; the clash between maintaining an enclave and outreach models of Jewish society; particularist and universalist trends; and the subtle interplay of mystical faith and rationality. Some of the chapters are new; others, published in an earlier form, have been updated to take account of recent scholarship. This book presents an in-depth study of an intriguing movement which takes traditional hasidism beyond modernity.
The most in-depth theological appraisal is Elliot Wolfson, Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical ... On messianism in Ḥasidism more generally, see Mor Altshuler, The Messianic Secret of Hasidism (Leiden: Brill, 2012).
Author: Sam Berrin Shonkoff
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004377042
Category: Philosophy
Page: 331
View: 389
Martin Buber: His Intellectual and Scholarly Legacy is a unique volume on one of the most pivotal figures of modern Jewish thought. These essays by leading scholars explore Buber’s influential dialogues with Christianity, politics, philosophy, and Jewish sources.
(Albany, NY, 1992); Roman A. Foxbrunner, Habad: The Hasidism of R. Shneur Zalman of Lyady (Tuscaloosa, AL 1992); and Naftali Loewenthal ... On Yehiel Mikhl of Zlotshev, see Mor Altshuler, The Messianic Secret of Hasidism (Leiden, 2006).
Author: David Biale
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691202440
Category: History
Page: 890
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A must-read book for understanding this vibrant and influential modern Jewish movement Hasidism originated in southeastern Poland, in mystical circles centered on the figure of Israel Ba’al Shem Tov, but it was only after his death in 1760 that a movement began to spread. Today, Hasidism is witnessing a remarkable renaissance around the world. This book provides the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. Written by an international team of scholars, its unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social history demonstrates that, far from being a throwback to the Middle Ages, Hasidism is a product of modernity that forged its identity as a radical alternative to the secular world.
Author: Batsheva Goldman-IdaPublish On: 2017-10-10
Mor Altshuler describes the development of this tradition: One of the [best] concealed secrets in the tikkun rituals of the Shavuot festival is in regard to the identity of ... 47 Altshuler, The Messianic Secret of Hasidism, 87, and nn.
Author: Batsheva Goldman-Ida
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004290266
Category: Religion
Page: 488
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Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah presents eight case studies of manuscripts, ritual objects and folk art developed by Hasidic masters in the mid-eighteenth to late nineteenth centuries, whose form and decoration relate to sources in the Zohar, German Pietism, and Safed Kabbalah.
95c, discussed in Shatz-Uffenheimer, Hasidism as Mysticism, p. 203; Altshuler, The Messianic Secret of Hasidism, pp. 87–88. 115 See Ze"ev Gries, Conduct Literature (Regimen Vitae), Its History and Place in the Life of the Beshtian ...
Author: Moshe Sharon
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789047405573
Category: Religion
Page: 344
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Twelve comprehensive studies dedicated to messianism, millenniarism and eschatological thought in Judaism Christianity and Islam that underlies the birth of Hassidism, “Mormonism” and the Bahā’ī Faith introduced by the editor’s study of the underlying common source of this religious activity.