The Legend of the Baal-Shem (eBook)

Martin Buber (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21433-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The Jewish philosopher Martin Buber spoke directly to the most profound human concerns in all his works, including his discussions of Hasidism, a mystical-religious movement founded in Eastern Europe by Israel ben Eliezer, called the Baal-Shem (the Master of God's Name). Living in the first part of the eighteenth century in Podolia and Wolhynia, the Baal-Shem braved scorn and rejection from the rabbinical establishment and attracted followers from among the common people, the poor, and the mystically inclined. Here Buber offers a sensitive and intuitive account of Hasidism, followed by twenty stories about the life of the Baal-Shem. This book is the earliest and one of the most delightful of Buber's seven volumes on Hasidism and can be read not only as a collection of myth but as a key to understanding the central theme of Buber's thought: the I-Thou, or dialogical, relationship. "e;All positive religion rests on an enormous simplification of the manifold and wildly engulfing forces that invade us: it is the subduing of the fullness of existence. All myth, in contrast, is the expression of the fullness of existence, its image, its sign; it drinks incessantly from the gushing fountains of life."e;--Martin Buber, from the introduction

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.6.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series (General)
• Reihe/Serie: Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Reihe/Serie: Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Übersetzer: Maurice Friedman
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Schlagworte: Anecdote • Ark of the Covenant • Baal-Shem • Books of Kings • broth • common era • consecration • Conversion • Cushion • Disturbed Sabbath • dybbuk • Eighteen Benedictions • Elijah • Elohim • Essenes • Exorcism • Fear of God • Firmament • flattery • forehead • forgotten story • Fountain of Life • Gehenna • Gemara • God • God Alone • Hasidic Judaism • Hasidim • Hasid (term) • hearth • His Holiness • Hitlahavut • Housewife • Human Spirit • humility • Isaac Luria • Jacob Frank • Jacob Joseph • Jerusalem • Jerusalem Talmud • Jewish Mysticism • Jewish prayer • Jews • Judaism • judgement • Kabbalah • Kavana • Kiddush • Kiddush Hashem • Kol Nidre • Literature • love of God • maggid • Matza • meal • Messiah • Messiah in Judaism • Minha • Misery (novel) • Mishnah • month • Moses • Mount Sinai • Mussaf • My Child • Mysticism • Narration • narrative • New creation (theology) • Old Book (ghost) • Oppression • oven • Pamphlet • parable • Parchment • Passover • Passover seder • Prayer • Prayer-Book • Prayer shawl • precentor • Presence of God (Catholicism) • procession • Pslam-Singer • Rabbanim • Rabbi Arye • Rabbi Naftali • Rabbi Shalom • Religious Law • Ritual Bath • Ritual purification • sadness • sanctification • Saul and David • seclusion • second coming • seriousness • Shekhinah • Shekina • Shofar • Siddur • Sleeve • Solomon's Temple • spouse • sukkot • Sympathy • Tales of the Hasidim • Tefillin • The Exodus • The Revelation • the shepherd • The Soul of the World • the Word of the Lord • Threefold Laugh • throne of God • Tikkun Olam • Tisha B'Av • Torpor • To the Wedding • Tribe of Dan • tzadik • werewolf • World to come • Writing • zaddik • Zephaniah • Zohar
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21433-6 / 0691214336
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21433-7 / 9780691214337