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2 produkter
2 produkter
Inner Religion in Jewish Sources
A Phenomenology of Inner Religious Life and Its Manifestation from the Bible to Hasidic Texts
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
1 755 kr
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Is Judaism essentially a religion of laws and commandments? Or do its sources reflect significant attempts at addressing the individual’s inner life, existential crises and spiritual experiences?Inner Religion in Jewish Sources offers a comprehensive exploration of inner life in the Jewish sources from the Bible to rabbinic literature, from Medieval Jewish philosophy to Kabbalistic writings and the Hasidic world, where it gained particularly potent expressions. Addressing the issue from the perspective of comparative religion, it seeks to emphasize the commonality of processes of interiorization in various religious traditions, suggesting an innovative angle both in the study of religion and of religious thought. In doing so, it sheds new light on the inner aspect of Jewish religious life, which is all too often hidden behind the external and institutional aspects of the Jewish religion.
Human Temple
Religious Interiorization and the Structure of Inner Life in Early Ḥasidism
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 989 kr
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The Human Temple is a study of the unique spirituality of early Hasidism and its sources. The introduction reviews the various approaches to the study of Hasidism and their development since the late 19th century. The book contrasts the perspectives of several Jewish thinkers, most notably Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem, on the essence of Hasidism, while comparing the teachings of the most important pupils of the founder of Hasidism, the Baal Shem Tov. The study of these early Hasidic figures focuses on their respective approaches to materiality, ritual and community as vital expressions of the many facets of religious inner life. Gershom Scholem claimed that the disciples of Hasidism negated the value of earthly life; however, the book demonstrates that it was, in fact, the common goal of all trends in Hasidism to illuminate material life in light of the Godhead through an emotional and conscious effort. This anchors Buber’s approach in the Hassidic sources. The Human Temple likewise determines that the theology of the fathers of Hasidism cannot be identified with nihilistic mysticism or Quietism. Their spiritual teachings transformed the largely ascetic world view they had adhered to, into a new and more positive relationship to material reality.