Inner Religion in Jewish Sources

Ron Margolin is a professor of Jewish thought and the study of religion at Tel Aviv University and Senior Researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is the author of many studies in Hasidism, modern Jewish thought, secular Judaism, and comparative religion. Margolin’s Hebrew book The Human Temple: Religious Interiorization and the Structuring of Inner Life in Early Hasidism will soon be published in English by De Gruyter Press.

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• Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Ritual and CustomRitual Interiorization and Intent for Commandments Part Two: Emotion, Sensation, and ExperienceIntroduction: The Meaning of Ecstatic Experience and Mystical Experience in the Study of ReligionProphecy, Dreams, and Other Paranormal ExperiencesIntrospective Contemplation and Inward Focusing Part Three: Thinking about the InnerIntroduction: Interiorization in Religious ThoughtThe Conceptual Interiorization of Myth and LawExistential Aspects of Inner Religious LifeEpistemological InteriorizationAfterword: The Immanent Testimony to the TranscendentalBibliographyIndex