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The Tombs of the Righteous and Cosmic Energy in Ukraine
Etnografia Polska, 2023 Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the town of Uman (Ukraine), an important Hasidic pilgrimage centre built around the tomb of the Jewish righteous Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, I explore the notion of energy employed by Uman’s non-Hasidic and non-Jewish
Magdalena Zatorska
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Torah Trumps Life: Reflections on Uncivil Religion and Haredi Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Religions, 2023 As if by design, crisis reveals basic structural fault lines. In the middle of the COVID-19 crisis, non-Haredi Jews expressed surprise and even outrage about the ultra-orthodox Haredi response to the pandemic.
Zachary J. Braiterman
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Shagar’s Mystical Space: Moving between the Languages of Kabbalah, Hasidism, and Rav Kook
Religions, 2021 This paper presents an analysis of the conflictual relationship between Shagar’s [Shimon Gershon Rosenberg] use of kabbalistic and Hasidic traditions and his search for mysticism via psychoanalysis and Continental philosophy.
Leore Sachs-Shmueli
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Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2003 The emergence of Hasidism as a mystical form of the Jewish tradition during the eighteenth century caused organizational divisions in Judaism. This split, which swept half of the Jewish world of Central and Eastern Europe, was largely caused by the ...
V.S. Furkalo
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Divine gender transformations in Rebbe Nahman of Bratslav
Nordisk Judaistik, 2008 In several passages in the tales and teachings of Rebbe Nahman of Bratslav, the divine undergoes a process of gender transformation. “The holy one blessed be he”, becomes female, and the Shekhinah temporarily takes on a male persona. Characterizations of
Justin Lewis
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Odnajdując „wspólny język ognia”: Jerzy Ficowski wobec mistycyzmu żydowskiego (prolegomena)
Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Historicolitteraria, 2016 Finding the “common language of fire”: Jerzy Ficowski on Jewish mysticism (prolegomena) This article is an attempt to outline the relationship between the work of Jerzy Ficowski and the Jewish mystical thought that was brought in this paper to a ...
Ewa Goczał
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What do the Angels Say? Alterity and the Ascents of Emanuel Swedenborg and the Baal Shem Tov
Open Theology, 2018 This paper examines the history of boundary crossing and boundary preservation between Jews and Christians in the eighteenth century via an unorthodox path.
Esterson Rebecca
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Deconstructing Gilgul, Finding Identity
Journal for Religion, Film and Media, 2017 Captain America and Bucky, characters who appear in Marvel Comics, seem to be temporally displaced. The article scrutinizes that temporal displacement, comparing it with the Judaistic concept of gilgul – the transmigration or reincarnation of the soul ...
Hausmanninger, Thomas
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Messianic Footsteps in the Third Solitude: Canadian Jewish Mysticism in Tosher Hasidism
Canadian Jewish Studies, 2017 Critics have suggested that in Canadian literature there are “two solitudes” of Anglophone and Francophone linguistic and ethnic clusters, which give way to the unique “third solitude” of Montreal Jewry.
Aubrey Glazer
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European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract According to a widely held view both within and outside philosophy, imagination is innocent in the sense that it does not influence what we think and do. Hence, we can let our imagination wander anywhere. There are two ways of pushing back against this ‘innocence of imagination’ claim.
Bence Nanay
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