Dr Zvi Mark is Senior Lecturer at Bar Ilan University and Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.

‘Zvi Mark is this generation's leading scholar on the ever-fascinating life and teachings of Rabbi Nahman. Both his new textual discoveries and his perceptive readings of them are truly eye-opening. I highly recommend his work!' - Arthur Green, rector of Hebrew College's Rabbinical School and Irving Brudnick Professor of Philosophy and Religion

• Introduction; 1 Imagination, Prophecy and Faith; 2 On the Character of Mystical Experiences; 3 Unification: Hints, Sparks and Melody - On the Bratslavian Service of God; 4. Silence and Melody Facing the Void: On the Place of the Mystic Melody in the Confrontation with Heresy in the Writings of R. Nahman of Bratslav; 5 The Land Of Imagination; 6 'Smallness' And 'Greatness' and their Roots in the Kabbalah of the Ari; 7 The Ultimate Purpose of Knowing is that We Do Not Know; 8 "The Story of the Humble King"- On Laughter and Foolishness In The Service Of God.

Dr Zvi Mark is Senior Lecturer at Bar Ilan University and Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.

‘Zvi Mark is this generation's leading scholar on the ever-fascinating life and teachings of Rabbi Nahman. Both his new textual discoveries and his perceptive readings of them are truly eye-opening. I highly recommend his work!' - Arthur Green, rector of Hebrew College's Rabbinical School and Irving Brudnick Professor of Philosophy and Religion

• Introduction; 1 Imagination, Prophecy and Faith; 2 On the Character of Mystical Experiences; 3 Unification: Hints, Sparks and Melody - On the Bratslavian Service of God; 4. Silence and Melody Facing the Void: On the Place of the Mystic Melody in the Confrontation with Heresy in the Writings of R. Nahman of Bratslav; 5 The Land Of Imagination; 6 'Smallness' And 'Greatness' and their Roots in the Kabbalah of the Ari; 7 The Ultimate Purpose of Knowing is that We Do Not Know; 8 "The Story of the Humble King"- On Laughter and Foolishness In The Service Of God.

Dr Zvi Mark is Senior Lecturer at Bar Ilan University and Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.

‘Zvi Mark is this generation's leading scholar on the ever-fascinating life and teachings of Rabbi Nahman. Both his new textual discoveries and his perceptive readings of them are truly eye-opening. I highly recommend his work!' - Arthur Green, rector of Hebrew College's Rabbinical School and Irving Brudnick Professor of Philosophy and Religion

• Introduction; 1 Imagination, Prophecy and Faith; 2 On the Character of Mystical Experiences; 3 Unification: Hints, Sparks and Melody - On the Bratslavian Service of God; 4. Silence and Melody Facing the Void: On the Place of the Mystic Melody in the Confrontation with Heresy in the Writings of R. Nahman of Bratslav; 5 The Land Of Imagination; 6 'Smallness' And 'Greatness' and their Roots in the Kabbalah of the Ari; 7 The Ultimate Purpose of Knowing is that We Do Not Know; 8 "The Story of the Humble King"- On Laughter and Foolishness In The Service Of God.