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Hasidism beyond modernity : essays in Habad thought and history / Naftali Loewenthal.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Liverpool scholarship onlinePublisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (x, 433 pages) : PDF file(s)Content type:
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  • 9781789628203
  • 1789628202
  • 1800343310
  • 9781800343313
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 296.83322 23
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  • BM198.54 .L64 2020
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Hippy in the Mikveh: the Hasidic ethos and the schisms of Jewish society -- The Ba'al Shem Tov's 'Sacred epistel' and contemporary Habad outreach -- The Hasid and the 'other' -- Reason and 'beyond reason' in Habad Hasidism -- Finding and transcending the individual -- Habad contemplation in context -- Women and the dialectic of spirituality in Hasidism -- From ladies' auxiliary to Schluchos network: women's activism in twentieth-century Habad-- Habad Messianism: a combination of opposites -- 'From the source of mercy': graveside prayer in Habad Hasidism -- Habad, the Rebbe, and the messiah in the twenty-first century.
Summary: The Habad school of hasidism is distinguished today from other hasidic groups by its famous emphasis on outreach, on messianism, and on empowering women. Hasidism Beyond Modernity provides a critical, thematic study of the movement from its beginnings, showing how its unusual qualities evolved. Topics investigated include the theoretical underpinning of the outreach ethos; the turn towards women in the twentieth century; new attitudes to non-Jews; the role of the individual in the hasidic collective; spiritual contemplation in the context of modernity; the quest for inclusivism in the face of prevailing schismatic processes; messianism in both spiritual and political forms; and the direction of the movement after the passing of its seventh rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in 1994. Attention is given to many contrasts: pre-modern, modern, and postmodern conceptions of Judaism; the clash between maintaining an enclave and outreach models of Jewish society; particularist and universalist trends; and the subtle interplay of mystical faith and rationality. Some of the chapters are new; others, published in an earlier form, have been updated to take account of recent scholarship. This book presents an in-depth study of an intriguing movement which takes traditional hasidism beyond modernity.
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Hippy in the Mikveh: the Hasidic ethos and the schisms of Jewish society -- The Ba'al Shem Tov's 'Sacred epistel' and contemporary Habad outreach -- The Hasid and the 'other' -- Reason and 'beyond reason' in Habad Hasidism -- Finding and transcending the individual -- Habad contemplation in context -- Women and the dialectic of spirituality in Hasidism -- From ladies' auxiliary to Schluchos network: women's activism in twentieth-century Habad-- Habad Messianism: a combination of opposites -- 'From the source of mercy': graveside prayer in Habad Hasidism -- Habad, the Rebbe, and the messiah in the twenty-first century.

The Habad school of hasidism is distinguished today from other hasidic groups by its famous emphasis on outreach, on messianism, and on empowering women. Hasidism Beyond Modernity provides a critical, thematic study of the movement from its beginnings, showing how its unusual qualities evolved. Topics investigated include the theoretical underpinning of the outreach ethos; the turn towards women in the twentieth century; new attitudes to non-Jews; the role of the individual in the hasidic collective; spiritual contemplation in the context of modernity; the quest for inclusivism in the face of prevailing schismatic processes; messianism in both spiritual and political forms; and the direction of the movement after the passing of its seventh rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in 1994. Attention is given to many contrasts: pre-modern, modern, and postmodern conceptions of Judaism; the clash between maintaining an enclave and outreach models of Jewish society; particularist and universalist trends; and the subtle interplay of mystical faith and rationality. Some of the chapters are new; others, published in an earlier form, have been updated to take account of recent scholarship. This book presents an in-depth study of an intriguing movement which takes traditional hasidism beyond modernity.

Includes bibliographical references and index.