"Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential--and controversial--rabbis of the twentieth century. A visionary writer and outstanding rabbinic leader, Kook was a philosopher, mystic, poet, jurist, communal leader, and veritable saint. The first chief rabbi …
In exploring the social background of early Jewish mysticism, Scholastic Magic tells the story of how imagination and magic were made to serve memory and scholasticism. In the visionary literature that circulated between the fifth and ninth centuries, there are strange tales of …
In exploring the social background of early Jewish mysticism, Scholastic Magic tells the story of how imagination and magic were made to serve memory and scholasticism. In the visionary literature that circulated between the fifth and ninth centuries, there are strange tales of …
The history of Hasidism and East European Jewry through the biography of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady"
The book looks at the history of Hasidism and East European Jewry through the biography of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady.
"The history of Hasidism and East European Jewry through the biography of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady"--
"The history of Hasidism and East European Jewry through the biography of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady."
"The history of Hasidism and East European Jewry through the biography of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady"
"The history of Hasidism and East European Jewry through the biography of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady"-- "Drawing on historical source materials that include Shneur Zalman's own works and correspondence, as well as documents concerning his imprisonment and interrogation by the…
"Drawing on historical source materials that include Shneur Zalman's own works and correspondence, as well as documents concerning his imprisonment and interrogation by the Russian authorities, Etkes focuses on Zalman's performance as a Hasidic leader, his unique personal qualit…
