A Heart Afire (eBook)

Stories and Teachings of the Early Hasidic Masters

Zalman Schacter-Shalomi, Netanel Miles-Yepez (Autoren)

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2017
432 Seiten
Monkfish Book Publishing (Verlag)
9781939681621 (ISBN)

Infos

A brilliant anthology of early Hasidic teachings which encompasses teachings from Sufism, Buddhism and depth psychology.

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A Heart Afire is an intimate, guided tour of many of the lesser-known and previously unpublished stories and teachings of the first three generations of Hasidism, especially those of the Ba'al Shem Tov, his heirs (male and female) and the students of his successor, the Maggid of Mezritch.

Autor

--Zalman Schacter-Shalomi was the founder of the Jewish Renewal Movement and one of the foremost authorities on Kabbalah and Hasidism. Professor emeritus of the psychology of religion and Jewish mysticism at Temple University and the World Wisdom Chair holder at Naropa

-- Netanel Miles-Yépez is an artist and religious scholar. Born into a Mexican-American family, in his late teens, Miles-Yépez discovered his family's hidden Jewish roots and began to explore Judaism and other religions seriously. He teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at Naropa .

--Arthur Green is an American scholar of Jewish mysticism and Neo-Hasidism. He is a professor in the non-denominational rabbinical program at Hebrew College in Boston. He was president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1987–1993.

Inhalt

Foreword by Arthur Green
A Note to the Reader
Introduction

Part I. THE HIDDEN TRADITION AND THE BA'AL SHEM TOV
1. The Hidden Light: The Ba'alei Shem and the Hidden Tzaddikim
2. A Heart Afire: The Revelation of the Ba'al Shem Tov
3. The Wheel of Fate and Fortune: Whispers of the Ba'al Shem Tov

Part II. THE CIRCLE OF THE BA'AL SHEM AND THE MAGGID OF MEZRITCH
4. The Knowledge of Fire: Adel Ashkenazi, the Daughter of the Ba'al Shem Tov
5. Awake in the Dark of Night: Pinhas of Koretz, the Silent Sage
6. A Bear in the Forest: Dov Baer, the Maggid of Mezritch
7. The Thirteenth Gate: The Great Maggid and the Voice of the Shekinah

Part III. THE CIRCLE OF THE MAGGID AND THE REBBE KING
8. The Heavens of the Angel: The Lonely Path of Avraham the Malakh
9. Beggars and Kings: Elimelekh of Lizhensk and His Brother, Zushya of Anipol
10. The Kind's Counsel: In the Court of the Rebbe Reb Melekh

Epilogue
Appendix: Tree of Life
Notes:
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Authors
How This Book was Written
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.8.2017
• Vorwort: Arthur Green
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Schlagworte: archetypes • Ba’al Shem Tov, the Maggid of Mezritch, Rebbes, Issac Luria, the Ari, Kabbalah, journey of heavenly ascent, tzaddikim, Israel ben Eliezer, Yehuda HaLevi, Ashkenazi Hasidism, Belzer Hasid, Martin Buber, Pinchas of Koretz, Neo-Hasidism, East European Jews, Jewish mystics, Reb Zalman, Adel Ashkenazi, daughter of Ba’al Shem Tov, Shekhinah, Avraham the Malakh, Elimelekh of Lizhensk, teshuva • Ba’al Shem Tov, the Maggid of Mezritch, Rebbes, Issac Luria, the Ari, Kabbalah, journey of heavenly ascent, tzaddikim, Israel ben Eliezer, Yehuda HaLevi, Ashkenazi Hasidism, Belzer Hasid, Martin Buber, Pinchas of Koretz, Neo-Hasidism, East European Jews, Jewish mystics, Reb Zalman, Adel Ashkenazi, daughter of Ba’al Shem Tov, Shekhinah, Avraham the Malakh, Elimelekh of Lizhensk, teshuva • buddhist prayer • Chasidim • Dharma • forty-nine gates • guru, Zen Buddhsm • Hasidic tales • Hasidism • hidden saints • Jews and miracles • Meditation • Shabbat • Tantra • Taoism • Tibetan Buddhism • tree of life • universalist Sufism • Yom Kippur • Zen Buddhist lineage • Zues
• ISBN-13: 9781939681621 / 9781939681621