From Tiberias, with Love: A Collection of Tiberian Hasidism. Volume 3

Letters of Love of the "Iggrot Qodesh"

Buch | Hardcover

380 Seiten

2025
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
9798887195841 (ISBN)

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From Tiberias With Love is a journey to rediscovering the magic and mystery, the intimacy and depth of a lost moment in the history of a remarkably relevant conscious community in the Galilee that still has much to teach us. In the year 1777, a group of spiritual seekers from Eastern European set sail in search of a promised land, far away from the internal and external conflicts plaguing those souls seeking the infinite within this finite world. Some who set sail identified with the burgeoning Jewish spiritual renewal movement of Hasidism, while others seem to have just come along for the ride. Weathering challenges both socioeconomic and geographic, this emigrating group sought to establish a center for a burgeoning hasidic ethos that would radiate to the Diaspora from its renewed center in the Holy Land in Palestine. Tiberian Hasidism provides a model of an intensive contemplative life that is particularly appealing to contemporary spiritual seekers for many reasons, including: its deep focus on mystical theology; devotional practice; and the ecstasy of deep friendship rather than allegiance to an institutionalized religion. This volume focuses on the teachings of letters of love from Vitebsker and Kalisker in Tiberias to their disciples in Eastern Europe known as the Iggrot Qodesh, still so ripe for excavation, offering an authentic roadmap to future contemplative pathways ripe for our age.

Aubrey L. Glazer is Senior rabbi at Beth Abraham Synagogue (Dayton, Ohio) and director of Panui, an incubator for contemplative practice and conscious community building. Aubrey’s most recent books including: Mystical Vertigo (Academic Studies Press, 2013); Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Leonard Cohen’s Post-Secular Songbook of Mysticism(s) Jewish & Beyond (Academic Studies Press, 2017). Nehemia Polen is Professor of Jewish Thought at Hebrew College, Newton Center, MA. A leading expert in Hasidism and Jewish thought, his books include The Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto (Jason Aronson Inc., first ed., 1977)

Dedicatory Preface: In Memoria: Professor Ada Rappaport-Albert, of Blessed Memory

David Assaf

Acknowledgments

A. Reader’s Guide

Love (Un)interrupted: Imbrications as Interconnectivity in Letters of Love of the Iggrot Qodesh

Aubrey L. Glazer

The Matter of the “Poor Folk” Who Joined the Hasidic Aliyah of 1777

Avraham Avish Shor

The Relationship of Hasidic Masters to the State and the Connection between the Bnei Aliyah to the Holy Land and the Division of Poland

Avraham Avish Shor

Doctrine of the Distant Tzaddiq—Mysticism, Ethics, and Politics

Tsippi Kauffman

The Measure of Truth: Hasidic Questions of Love and Integrity between the Diaspora and the Holy Land

Eli Rubin

Karlin Hasidism in Its Diasporic period: 1786–1801

Avraham Avish Shor

Love from Afar: Visualization in the Letters of Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk and Rabbi Avraham Kalisker

Lawrence Fine

Books on Musar and Reverence, and the Ambivalence toward Physical Love: A Letter from Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk to the Holy Community of Beshankovichy

Leore Sachs-Shmueli

Spiritual Affinity: Mystical Friendships in the Galilee. Between Tiberian Hasidism and Galilеan Sufism

Aubrey L. Glazer

Afterword: Ethics and Community at the Heart of Jewish Modernity: The Stakes of Tiberian Hasidism

Yehudah Mirsky

B. Letters of Love

Translators’ Note

Aubrey L. Glazer and Nehemia Polen

Annotated Translations

Aubrey L. Glazer and Nehemia Polen

Erscheinungsdatum	05.10.2024
Übersetzer	Aubrey L. Glazer, Nehemia Polen
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-13	9798887195841 / 9798887195841
Zustand	Neuware