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God's Voice from the Void »

Authors: Shaul Magid
ISBN-13: 9780791451762, ISBN-10: 0791451763
Format: Paperback
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: November 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Shaul Magid

Book Synopsis

Those interested in Hasidic theology and the life and thought of the Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav will be the audience for this collection of articles, three of which were previously published and appear for the first time in English. The authors consider topics that include gender theory as an approach to the androgyny of the zaddik, literary theory and Talmud in Nahman's "Burnt book", and the impact of Nahman's tales on Yiddish literature. Magid teaches Jewish studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Introduction and Acknowledgments
Pt. I	New Studies
	Shir Yedidut: A Pleasant Song of Companionship	3
Ch. 1	Associative Midrash: Reflections on a Hermenuetical Theory in Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav's Likkutei MoHaRan	15
Ch. 2	The Master of Prayer: Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav	67
Ch. 3	The Cut That Binds: Time, Memory, and the Ascetic Impulse (Reflections on Bratslav Hasidism)	103
Ch. 4	Adorning the Souls of the Dead: Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav and Tikkun Ha-Neshamot	155
Ch. 5	Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav: The Zaddik as Androgyne	193
Ch. 6	Saying Nihilism: A Review of Marc-Alain Ouaknin's The Burnt Book	217
Pt. II	Old Studies
Ch. 7	Messiah and the Light of the Messiah in Rabbi Nahman's Thought
Ch. 8	Rabbi Nahman, Romanticism, and Rationalism	263
Ch. 9	Mystical Hasidism and the Hasidism of Faith: A Typogogical Analysis	277
	About the Contributors	287
	Index	289