Hasidism on the Margin: Reconciliation, Antinomianism, and Messianism
by Shaul Magid
University of Wisconsin Press, 2003 Cloth: 978-0-299-19270-9 | Paper: 978-0-299-19274-7 | eISBN: 978-0-299-19273-0 Library of Congress Classification BM198.M24 2003 Dewey Decimal Classification 296.8332
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Hasidism on the Margin explores one of the most provocative and radical traditions of Hasidic thought, the school of Izbica and Radzin that Rabbi Gershon Henokh originated in nineteenth-century Poland. Shaul Magid traces the intellectual history of this strand of Judaism from medieval Jewish philosophy through centuries of Kabbalistic texts to the nineteenth century and into the present. He contextualizes the Hasidism of Izbica-Radzin in the larger philosophy and history of religions and provides a model for inquiry into other forms of Hasidism.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Shaul Magid is associate professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He is editor of God’s Voice through the Void and coeditor of Beginning/Again: Toward a Hermeneutic of Jewish Texts.
REVIEWS
"A major contribution to the study of Hasidism and Jewish thought."—Robert Eisen, George Washington University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 000
General Introduction 000
Biographical Introduction 000
A Note on Translation 000
A Note on the Absence of Gender Inclusive Language 000
Part 1. The Piety of Secrecy: Esotericism, Faith, and the Hasidic Construction of Origins 000
1. Retrieving the Origins of Kabbala: Gershon Henokh of Radzin's "Primordial Torah of Abraham" and Its Dialectical Disclosure 000
2. Re-Circumcising the Torah: The Synthesis of the Zohar and the Guide of the Perplexed and the Hasidic Reconstruction of Esotericism 000
3. "What Is Hasidism?": A Hasidic Search for Origins 000
Part 2. Hasidism and the Hermeneutical Turn: Reading Scripture against Itself 000
4. The Redemptive Foundation of Sin: A First Step in Recovering Determinism 000
5. Human Perfection and the Fulfillment of Abrahamic Religion: From Circumcision to Abraham's Death 000
6. Reconciliation and Fragmentation: The Second Rupture and the Final Stage of Exile 000
Part 3. The Law and its Discontents 000
7. In and Around the Law: Antinomianism and Mitzvot in Izbica/Radzin Hasidism 000
Conclusion 000
Notes 000
Bibliography 000
Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Hasidism, Hasidism Poland Izbica, Hasidism Poland Radzy�n Podlaski, Judaism and philosophy, Antinomianism, Reconciliation, Messianism
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Hasidism on the Margin: Reconciliation, Antinomianism, and Messianism
by Shaul Magid
University of Wisconsin Press, 2003 Cloth: 978-0-299-19270-9 Paper: 978-0-299-19274-7 eISBN: 978-0-299-19273-0
Hasidism on the Margin explores one of the most provocative and radical traditions of Hasidic thought, the school of Izbica and Radzin that Rabbi Gershon Henokh originated in nineteenth-century Poland. Shaul Magid traces the intellectual history of this strand of Judaism from medieval Jewish philosophy through centuries of Kabbalistic texts to the nineteenth century and into the present. He contextualizes the Hasidism of Izbica-Radzin in the larger philosophy and history of religions and provides a model for inquiry into other forms of Hasidism.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Shaul Magid is associate professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He is editor of God’s Voice through the Void and coeditor of Beginning/Again: Toward a Hermeneutic of Jewish Texts.
REVIEWS
"A major contribution to the study of Hasidism and Jewish thought."—Robert Eisen, George Washington University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
<table of contents, p. vii>
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 000
General Introduction 000
Biographical Introduction 000
A Note on Translation 000
A Note on the Absence of Gender Inclusive Language 000
Part 1. The Piety of Secrecy: Esotericism, Faith, and the Hasidic Construction of Origins 000
1. Retrieving the Origins of Kabbala: Gershon Henokh of Radzin's "Primordial Torah of Abraham" and Its Dialectical Disclosure 000
2. Re-Circumcising the Torah: The Synthesis of the Zohar and the Guide of the Perplexed and the Hasidic Reconstruction of Esotericism 000
3. "What Is Hasidism?": A Hasidic Search for Origins 000
Part 2. Hasidism and the Hermeneutical Turn: Reading Scripture against Itself 000
4. The Redemptive Foundation of Sin: A First Step in Recovering Determinism 000
5. Human Perfection and the Fulfillment of Abrahamic Religion: From Circumcision to Abraham's Death 000
6. Reconciliation and Fragmentation: The Second Rupture and the Final Stage of Exile 000
Part 3. The Law and its Discontents 000
7. In and Around the Law: Antinomianism and Mitzvot in Izbica/Radzin Hasidism 000
Conclusion 000
Notes 000
Bibliography 000
Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Hasidism, Hasidism Poland Izbica, Hasidism Poland Radzy�n Podlaski, Judaism and philosophy, Antinomianism, Reconciliation, Messianism
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