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'Hasidism Incarnate' argues that much of modern Judaism in the west developed under what it calls a 'Christian gaze', that is, reacting to Christianity by defending Judaism, positing that Judaism is unlike Christianity. This is done, ironically, while modern Judaism is being constructed as quite similar to Christianity in terms of its ethos, aesthetics, and attitude toward ritual and faith. Hasidism, unlike Judaism in Western Europe, is not developing under a 'Christian gaze' and thus does not need to be apologetic of its positions.

Title יועץ התקשורת של ראש הממשלה.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
Creation Date [2015]
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Introduction : incarnation and incarnational thinking -- Divinization and incarnational thinking in Hasidism: an overview -- Charisma speaking: uniqueness, incarnation, and sacred language (lashon ha-kodesh) in Nahman of Bratslav's self-fashioning -- Jewish ethics through a Hasidic lens: incarnation, the law, and the universal -- Malkhut as kenosis: malkhut and the zaddik in Yaʻakov Koppel Lifshitz of Mezritch's Shaʻarei Gan Eden -- "Brother where art thou?": reflections on Jesus in Martin Buber and the Hasidic master R. Shmuel Bornstein of Sochaczev -- Liberal Judaism, Christianity, and the specter of Hasidism.
Series Encountering traditions
Extent 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages).
Language English
Copyright Date ©2015
National Library system number 997010716070005171
MARC RECORDS
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