Buch, Englisch, Band 68, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 656 g
Reihe: Studies in Jewish History and Culture / Studies in Musar
Buch, Englisch, Band 68, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 656 g
Reihe: Studies in Jewish History and Culture / Studies in Musar
ISBN: 978-90-04-46111-6
Verlag: Brill
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgements
part 1: Introduction
1 Generalities
1 Methodology and Organisation
2 Biography
3 The Shelah in Secondary Literature
4 Key Concepts
2 The ‘Threefold Cord’: The Shelah’s Structure and Methodology
1 Audience
2 Composition
3 ‘The Threefold Cord’
4 Author’s Methodology and Limitations
part 2: Kabbalah
3 Kabbalah as Jewish Theology
1 The Essence of Judaism
2 The Organic Universe
4 The Shelah’s Kabbalistic Sources and Central Tenets
1 The Sources
2 Central Tenets: Creation
3 Man, God and the Torah
4 The Fall and Redemption of Man
5 Self-Actualisation
6 Providence and Divine Justice
7 'Avodah le-Tsorekh Gavohah
8 Torah Study
5 Orthodoxy and Jewish Particularism
1 Orthodoxy
2 Heresy without Heretics
3 Particularism
6 Devekut
1 Background
2 Devekut in the Shelah
3 The Ladder of Devekut
4 Extraordinary Devekut
Part 3: Halakhah
7 Kabbalistic Halakhah 1: Theory
1 Halakhah as Prophecy
2 Charismatic Authority
8 Kabbalistic Halakhah 2: Practice
1 Ordinary and Elitist Applications of the Halakhah
2 Kabbalah and Halakhah in the Shelah
3 Minhag
9 The Pathway to Pietism
1 Incomplete Halakhah
2 Mikveh and Holiness
10 Stringency and Elitism
1 Stringency and Leniency in Halakhah
2 Stringency as the Antidote for the Serpent
3 ‘One Who Is Stringent Will Merit Blessing’
4 Ner Mitsvah as Pietism
Part 4: Musar
11 ‘In All Your Ways Acknowledge Him’: The Two Paths of the Righteous
1 Asceticism and the Ideal of Righteousness
2 Between Heaven and Earth: The Tsaddik
3 Sanctification of the Body
12 The Primacy of Joy
1 Background
2 Joy and Enthusiasm in the Shelah
3 Prayer and Joy
13 Messianic Self-Transformation
1 The Transformation of Evil
2 Tikkun
Part 5: Conclusion
Conclusion
Epilogue: Isaiah the Prophet
1 Antinomianism
2 Orthodoxy
3 Hasidism and Pietism
4 Texts
Bibliography
Manuscripts
Primary and Secondary Literature
Index