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Eternity now : Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady and temporality / Wojciech Tworek.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781438475561
  • 143847556X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Eternity nowDDC classification:
  • 296.8/332 23
LOC classification:
  • BM755.S525 T86 2019eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
A Note on the Presentation of Source Materials -- Introduction. From the Preacher of Liozna to the "Messiah of Brooklyn" ; Habad and Temporality ; A Brief History of Jewish Time ; Sources ; This Book's Structure -- 1. Toward a Definition of Time. Setting the Stage ; Between an Eternal God and a Temporal World ; The Nature of Time ; Conclusion -- 2. History : From Creation to the End of Time. From Exile to Redemption ; The Exodus ; Toward the Advent of the Messiah ; Conclusion -- 3. The End of Days. The Double-ending Eschatology ; Limitations of Redemption : Gentile Nations in the World-to-come ; Messianic Age : Now and Then ; Beyond the Messianic Era : The Afterlife and the World-to-come ; Conclusion -- 4. Time and Religious Praxis. Torah Study : Between Halakhah and Mysticism ; Two Modes of Torah Study : Scholars and Laymen ; Torah Study Within the Daily Worship Cycle ; Habad : Hasidism For Householders and Tradespeople ; Conclusion -- 5. Time's Gender Twist. Female Imagery in Shneur Zalman's Theosophy ; The Temporal Female ; Between Theosophy and Life Praxis ; Conclusion -- Conclusion.
Summary: "The Habad movement, born in eighteenth-century Belarus, has developed into one of the most influential streams of Hasidic Judaism. Drawing on both mystical sermons and legal writings of its founder, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady (1745-1812), Eternity Now provides the first account of the historiosophical dimensions of early Habad doctrine. Challenging the commonly held view that Shneur Zalman was primarily concerned with supratemporal transcendence, Wojciech Tworek demonstrates the importance of time and history in his teachings. Tworek argues that the worldly dimensions of Shneur Zalman's thought were largely responsible for the rapid growth of Habad at the turn of the nineteenth century and fostered its transformation from an elitist circle into a mass movement. Tworek's readings of Hebrew and Yiddish sources demonstrate the implications of these ideas not only for male scholars but also for non-scholars, Jewish women, and even non-Jews. Philosophical and kabbalistic thought joined together to form a model of religious experience attractive to a broad audience, laying an ideological foundation for the missionary messianism that was to become a hallmark of Habad in the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)2201311

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The Habad movement, born in eighteenth-century Belarus, has developed into one of the most influential streams of Hasidic Judaism. Drawing on both mystical sermons and legal writings of its founder, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady (1745-1812), Eternity Now provides the first account of the historiosophical dimensions of early Habad doctrine. Challenging the commonly held view that Shneur Zalman was primarily concerned with supratemporal transcendence, Wojciech Tworek demonstrates the importance of time and history in his teachings. Tworek argues that the worldly dimensions of Shneur Zalman's thought were largely responsible for the rapid growth of Habad at the turn of the nineteenth century and fostered its transformation from an elitist circle into a mass movement. Tworek's readings of Hebrew and Yiddish sources demonstrate the implications of these ideas not only for male scholars but also for non-scholars, Jewish women, and even non-Jews. Philosophical and kabbalistic thought joined together to form a model of religious experience attractive to a broad audience, laying an ideological foundation for the missionary messianism that was to become a hallmark of Habad in the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed July 19, 2019)

A Note on the Presentation of Source Materials -- Introduction. From the Preacher of Liozna to the "Messiah of Brooklyn" ; Habad and Temporality ; A Brief History of Jewish Time ; Sources ; This Book's Structure -- 1. Toward a Definition of Time. Setting the Stage ; Between an Eternal God and a Temporal World ; The Nature of Time ; Conclusion -- 2. History : From Creation to the End of Time. From Exile to Redemption ; The Exodus ; Toward the Advent of the Messiah ; Conclusion -- 3. The End of Days. The Double-ending Eschatology ; Limitations of Redemption : Gentile Nations in the World-to-come ; Messianic Age : Now and Then ; Beyond the Messianic Era : The Afterlife and the World-to-come ; Conclusion -- 4. Time and Religious Praxis. Torah Study : Between Halakhah and Mysticism ; Two Modes of Torah Study : Scholars and Laymen ; Torah Study Within the Daily Worship Cycle ; Habad : Hasidism For Householders and Tradespeople ; Conclusion -- 5. Time's Gender Twist. Female Imagery in Shneur Zalman's Theosophy ; The Temporal Female ; Between Theosophy and Life Praxis ; Conclusion -- Conclusion.