Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Note on Style and Transliteration
- Introduction to the Paperback Edition
- Introduction
- 1 From Heroism to Heterodoxy: The Crisis of a Movement and the Danger to a Faith
- 2 The New Messianism: Passing Phenomenon or Turning Point in the History of Judaism?
- 3 Aborted Initiatives and Sustained Attacks
- 4 The Second Coming: A Rejoinder
- 5 Revisiting the Second Coming
- 6 The Rabbinical Council of America Resolution
- 7 The Council of Torah Sages
- 8 The Spectre of Idolatry
- 9 On False Messianism, Idolatry, and Lubavitch
- 10 Debating Avodah Zarah
- 11 Judaism is Changing Before Our Eyes
- 12 From Margin to Mainstream: The Consolidation and Expansion of the Messianist Beachhead
- 13 Explaining the Inexplicable
- 14 What Must Be Done?
- Epitaph
- Appendix I On a Messiah who Dies with his Mission Unfulfilled: Selected Quotations
- Appendix II The Parameters of Avodah Zarah
- Appendix III Tosafot on ‘Association’ (Shituf)
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Note on Style and Transliteration
- Introduction to the Paperback Edition
- Introduction
- 1 From Heroism to Heterodoxy: The Crisis of a Movement and the Danger to a Faith
- 2 The New Messianism: Passing Phenomenon or Turning Point in the History of Judaism?
- 3 Aborted Initiatives and Sustained Attacks
- 4 The Second Coming: A Rejoinder
- 5 Revisiting the Second Coming
- 6 The Rabbinical Council of America Resolution
- 7 The Council of Torah Sages
- 8 The Spectre of Idolatry
- 9 On False Messianism, Idolatry, and Lubavitch
- 10 Debating Avodah Zarah
- 11 Judaism is Changing Before Our Eyes
- 12 From Margin to Mainstream: The Consolidation and Expansion of the Messianist Beachhead
- 13 Explaining the Inexplicable
- 14 What Must Be Done?
- Epitaph
- Appendix I On a Messiah who Dies with his Mission Unfulfilled: Selected Quotations
- Appendix II The Parameters of Avodah Zarah
- Appendix III Tosafot on ‘Association’ (Shituf)
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox IndifferenceWith a New Introduction, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2008