The origin and meaning of Hasidism.
Here the author completes his great lifework of the re-creation and interpretation of Hasidism, the popular communal mysticism that arose and flourished among the Jews of Eastern Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Shows that the God of the Bible and of Hasidism is the loving God whos...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York,
Horizon Press
[©1960]
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| Series: | Harper torchbooks ;
835. |
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| Summary: | Here the author completes his great lifework of the re-creation and interpretation of Hasidism, the popular communal mysticism that arose and flourished among the Jews of Eastern Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Shows that the God of the Bible and of Hasidism is the loving God whose love includes the demand that man make real his humanity through bringing every aspect of his life into his relation to God. |
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| Item Description: | "The second volume of Martin Buber's two-volume comprehensive interpretation, Hasidism and the way of man." |
| Physical Description: | 254 pages 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0818013168 9780818013164 081801315X 9780818013157 |