Wrapped in a Holy Flame
Subtitle: Teachings and Tales of The Hasidic Masters
Contributors: Nataniel M. Miles-Yepez (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: March 31, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780787965730
Subjects: Judaism; Sacred texts; Judaism - Hasidism; Hasidism; Religion - Judaism; Religion; Legends; Likute amarim; Religion / Judaism / General; Shneur Zalman; Habad; Judaism - General; Biography; Hasidim
First sentence: HASIDIC TRADITION has it that the Jewish people were completely exhausted and faint, left without energy, after being ravaged by the external catastrophe of Chmielnicki and his hordes, and the internal catastrophe brought about by the failed Messiahs, Shabbetai Tzvi and Jacob Frank.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: vii; title: Author's Preface
pagenum: ix; title: Editor's Preface
pagenum: xi; title: Note to the Reader
pagenum: xiii; title: A Renaissance of Piety: The Teachings of Hasidism and the Shifting Paradigm
pagenum: 1; title: A Hidden Fire Revealed: The Ba'al Shem Tov
pagenum: 27; title: The Teachers of the Aha! The Maggid of Mezritch and Reb Pinchas of Koretz
pagenum: 45; title: The Ascetic Saint: Reb Elimelech of Lizhensk
pagenum: 55; title: The Passionate Defender: Reb Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev
pagenum: 61; title: Heaven Is Here! Reb Moshe Leib of Sassov
pagenum: 71; title: Dancing from the Infirmary: The Maggid of Koznitz
pagenum: 79; title: A Guide for the Exceptional Average: Seven Generations of Chabad Rebbes
pagenum: 89; title: Between Perfection and Evil
pagenum: 105; title: Soul Matters
pagenum: 117; title: Attributes and Garments of the Soul
pagenum: 129; title: The Victory of the Rational Soul
pagenum: 143; title: The Duality of Good and Evil
pagenum: 149; title: Woman and the Divine Feminine
pagenum: 161; title: Fear and Love
pagenum: 165; title: Annihilation of Existence and Brokenheartedness
pagenum: 171; title: The End of the Journey
pagenum: 181; title: The Word That Creates: Sha'ar HaYichud VeHaEmunah and the Rest of the Tanya
pagenum: 185; title: Radical Hasidism and the Challenge of Changing Paradigms
pagenum: 201; title: Dreamer of Archetypes: Reb Nachman of Bratzlav
pagenum: 205; title: Who Walks on the Edge of the Sword: Reb Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
pagenum: 245; title: Deployed by God: Reb Mordecai Yosef of Ishbitz
pagenum: 251; title: A Latter-Day Saint: Reb Arele Roth
pagenum: 263; title: Loving the Land and Its People Is Loving God: Reb Abraham Isaac Kook
pagenum: 271; title: Yea, Though I Walk Through the Shadow of Death: Reb Kalonymous Kalmisch of Piasetzna
pagenum: 275; title: The Mystic Proletarian: Reb Hillel Zeitlin
pagenum: 279; title: The Master of Virtuous Reality: Reb Shlomo Carlebach
pagenum: 287; title: Precocious Mystical Feminism: Reb Channah Rochel of Ludmir
pagenum: 297; title: Notes
pagenum: 307; title: Glossary
pagenum: 327; title: Biographies
pagenum: 333; title: Index
pagenum: 335