Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on Sources
- Note on Pronunciation
- Introduction to the Paperback Edition: Joseph Weiss Today
- Editor's Introduction
- Publisher's Note
- STUDIES IN EAST EUROPEAN JEWISH MYSTICISM AND HASIDISM
- Some Notes on the Social Background of Early Hasidism
- A Circle of Pneumatics in Pre-Hasidism
- Contemplative Mysticism and “Faith” in Hasidic Piety
- Torah Study in Early Hasidism
- Via Passiva in Early Hasidism
- The Kavvanoth of Prayer in Early Hasidism
- Petitionary Prayer in Early Hasidism
- Contemplation as Solitude
- Contemplation as Self-Abandonment in the Writings of Hayyim Haika of Amdura
- R. Abraham Kalisker's Concept of Communion with God and Men
- The Authorship and Literary Unity of the Darkhei Yesharim
- The Ṣaddik-Altering the Divine Will
- The Hasidic Way of Ḥabad
- Some Notes on Ecstasy in Ḥabad Hasidism
- A Late Jewish Utopia of Religious Freedom
- Sense and Nonsense in Defining Judaism-The Strange Case of Naḥman of Brazlav
- Index
The Authorship and Literary Unity of the Darkhei Yesharim
from STUDIES IN EAST EUROPEAN JEWISH MYSTICISM AND HASIDISM
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on Sources
- Note on Pronunciation
- Introduction to the Paperback Edition: Joseph Weiss Today
- Editor's Introduction
- Publisher's Note
- STUDIES IN EAST EUROPEAN JEWISH MYSTICISM AND HASIDISM
- Some Notes on the Social Background of Early Hasidism
- A Circle of Pneumatics in Pre-Hasidism
- Contemplative Mysticism and “Faith” in Hasidic Piety
- Torah Study in Early Hasidism
- Via Passiva in Early Hasidism
- The Kavvanoth of Prayer in Early Hasidism
- Petitionary Prayer in Early Hasidism
- Contemplation as Solitude
- Contemplation as Self-Abandonment in the Writings of Hayyim Haika of Amdura
- R. Abraham Kalisker's Concept of Communion with God and Men
- The Authorship and Literary Unity of the Darkhei Yesharim
- The Ṣaddik-Altering the Divine Will
- The Hasidic Way of Ḥabad
- Some Notes on Ecstasy in Ḥabad Hasidism
- A Late Jewish Utopia of Religious Freedom
- Sense and Nonsense in Defining Judaism-The Strange Case of Naḥman of Brazlav
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Studies in East European Jewish Mysticism and Hasidism , pp. 170 - 182Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1997