Hasidic Spirituality for a New Era : The Religious Writings of Hillel Zeitlin

by Zeitlin, Hillel

• ISBN13: 9780809106035
• ISBN10: 0809106035
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-30
• Publisher: Paulist Pr

Summary

A preeminent scholar of Jewish thought and spirituality presents the first-ever English translation of selected writings of the Hasidic martyr of the Warsaw Ghetto, Hillel Zeitlin (1871-1942).

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xi
Foreword	p. xv
Hillel Zeitlin: A Biographical Introduction	p. 1
Hasidism Then and Now	p. 33
The Call for a New Hasidism:	p. 33
Translator's Introduction	p. 33
What Does Yavneh Want?	p. 37
Admonitions for Every True Member of Yavneh	p. 43
Three Aramaic Chapters from Sifran shel Yehidim	p. 49
With Rabbi Israel BaÆal Shem Tov	p. 58
Two Letters: On Establishing Yavneh in Jerusalem	p. 68
The Fundaments of Hasidism	p. 71
Judaism and Universal Religion	p. 119
In the Souls Secret Places: Religious Experience and Its Manifestations	p. 119
The Longing for Beauty	p. 163
Prayers: Songs to the Eternal Introduced and Translated by Joel Rosenberg	p. 189
Love and Anguish: On the Poetry of Hillel Zeitlin	p. 189
Prayers (Tefillot)	p. 194
From Songs to the Boundless One	p. 222
Notes	p. 231
Index	p. 247
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