Shaul Magid is Elaine Ravitch Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and the coauthor of Reading a Beginning, Beginning a Reading: Toward a Hermeneutic of Jewish Texts.

"Nahman is one of the more fascinating figures in the history of the Hasidic movement both because of his singular personality and because of the profound and uncompromising nature of his theological vision. The book's broad range of topics and new approaches make this volume a significant contribution to the scholarship on Rabbi Nahman." — Joel Hecker, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

• Introduction and Acknowledgements Part INew StudiesShir Yedidut: A Pleasant Cong of CompanionshipAnonymoustranslated and annotated by Aubrey Glazer Chapter 1Association Midrash: Reflections on a Hermenuetic Theory in Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav's Likkutei MoHaRanShaul Magid Chapter 2The Master of Prayer: Nahman of BratslavDavid Roskies Chapter 3The Cut That Binds: Time, Memory, and the Ascetic ImpulseElliot R. Wolfson Chapter 4Adorning the Souls of the Dead: Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav and Tikkun NeshamotYakov Travis Chapter 5Nahman of Bratslav: The Zaddik as AndrogyneNathaniel Deitsch Chapter 6Saying Nihilism: A Review of Marc-Alain Ouaknin's The Burnt BookMartin Kavka Part IIOld Studies Chapter 7Messiah and the Light of the Messiah in Rabbi Nahman's ThoughtHillel Zeitlintranslated by Alyssa Quint Chapter 8Rabbi Nahman, Romanticism, and RationalismSamuel Abba Horodetzkytranslated by Martin Kavka Chapter 9Mystical Hasidism and the Hasidism of Faith: A Typological AnalysisJoseph Weisstranslated by Jeremy Kalmonofsky About the Contributors Index

Shaul Magid is Elaine Ravitch Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and the coauthor of Reading a Beginning, Beginning a Reading: Toward a Hermeneutic of Jewish Texts.

"Nahman is one of the more fascinating figures in the history of the Hasidic movement both because of his singular personality and because of the profound and uncompromising nature of his theological vision. The book's broad range of topics and new approaches make this volume a significant contribution to the scholarship on Rabbi Nahman." — Joel Hecker, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

• Introduction and Acknowledgements Part INew StudiesShir Yedidut: A Pleasant Cong of CompanionshipAnonymoustranslated and annotated by Aubrey Glazer Chapter 1Association Midrash: Reflections on a Hermenuetic Theory in Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav's Likkutei MoHaRanShaul Magid Chapter 2The Master of Prayer: Nahman of BratslavDavid Roskies Chapter 3The Cut That Binds: Time, Memory, and the Ascetic ImpulseElliot R. Wolfson Chapter 4Adorning the Souls of the Dead: Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav and Tikkun NeshamotYakov Travis Chapter 5Nahman of Bratslav: The Zaddik as AndrogyneNathaniel Deitsch Chapter 6Saying Nihilism: A Review of Marc-Alain Ouaknin's The Burnt BookMartin Kavka Part IIOld Studies Chapter 7Messiah and the Light of the Messiah in Rabbi Nahman's ThoughtHillel Zeitlintranslated by Alyssa Quint Chapter 8Rabbi Nahman, Romanticism, and RationalismSamuel Abba Horodetzkytranslated by Martin Kavka Chapter 9Mystical Hasidism and the Hasidism of Faith: A Typological AnalysisJoseph Weisstranslated by Jeremy Kalmonofsky About the Contributors Index

Shaul Magid is Elaine Ravitch Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and the coauthor of Reading a Beginning, Beginning a Reading: Toward a Hermeneutic of Jewish Texts.

"Nahman is one of the more fascinating figures in the history of the Hasidic movement both because of his singular personality and because of the profound and uncompromising nature of his theological vision. The book's broad range of topics and new approaches make this volume a significant contribution to the scholarship on Rabbi Nahman." — Joel Hecker, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

• Introduction and Acknowledgements Part INew StudiesShir Yedidut: A Pleasant Cong of CompanionshipAnonymoustranslated and annotated by Aubrey Glazer Chapter 1Association Midrash: Reflections on a Hermenuetic Theory in Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav's Likkutei MoHaRanShaul Magid Chapter 2The Master of Prayer: Nahman of BratslavDavid Roskies Chapter 3The Cut That Binds: Time, Memory, and the Ascetic ImpulseElliot R. Wolfson Chapter 4Adorning the Souls of the Dead: Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav and Tikkun NeshamotYakov Travis Chapter 5Nahman of Bratslav: The Zaddik as AndrogyneNathaniel Deitsch Chapter 6Saying Nihilism: A Review of Marc-Alain Ouaknin's The Burnt BookMartin Kavka Part IIOld Studies Chapter 7Messiah and the Light of the Messiah in Rabbi Nahman's ThoughtHillel Zeitlintranslated by Alyssa Quint Chapter 8Rabbi Nahman, Romanticism, and RationalismSamuel Abba Horodetzkytranslated by Martin Kavka Chapter 9Mystical Hasidism and the Hasidism of Faith: A Typological AnalysisJoseph Weisstranslated by Jeremy Kalmonofsky About the Contributors Index