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Their Heads in Heaven: Unfamiliar Aspects of Hasidism »

Authors: Louis Jacobs
ISBN-13: 9780853035664, ISBN-10: 0853035660
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Mitchell Vallentine & Company
Date Published: January 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

1	Hasidism : outline	1
2	Hasidic attitudes to the study of the Torah	12
3	Hasidic 'Torah'	26
4	The aim of Pilpul according to the Habad School	43
5	The Derashah of the Maggid on the two forms	50
6	Jacob's dream in Hasidic interpretation	56
7	The doctrine of the Zaddik in Elimelech of Lizansk	73
8	Discipleship in Hasidism : a study of two masters	90
9	A Pitka from a Hasid to his Rebbe	100
10	The book Rahamey Ha-Av	121
11	A Hasidic Boswell on his Rebbe	132
12	Honour thy father : a study in Hasidic psychology	139
13	Eating as an act of worship in Hasidism	149
14	The Zaddik as a source of danger	160
15	The Munkacer Rebbe on Christianity	170