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Kabbalah and the rupture of modernity : an existential history of Chabad Hasidism /

"Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity provides a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of Chabad Hasidism through the Kabbalistic concept of ṣimṣum. The onset of modernity, Eli Rubin argues, was heralded by this startling idea: existence itself is predicated on a self-inflicted...

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Main Author:	Rubin, Eli, 1988- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025]
Series:	Stanford studies in Jewish mysticism.
Subjects:	Habad > History. Hasidism > History. Cabala > History. God (Judaism) > History of doctrines. Jewish cosmology > History. Mysticism > Judaism > History. Habad > Histoire. Hassidisme > Histoire. Kabbale > Histoire. Dieu (Judaïsme) > Histoire des doctrines. Cosmologie juive > Histoire. Mysticisme > Judaïsme > Histoire. RELIGION / Judaism / History. Electronic books.

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