God and his imaginary friends: a Hassidic metaphysics

What happens when you assume that the world is a dream in the mind of God, or that the world's history is a story that God is spinning? Focusing on the role that this assumption plays in the thought of Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner (1801-1854), at least as it is understood by Rabbi Herzl Hefter,...

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Main Author: Lebens, Samuel 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2015]
In: Religious studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 183-204
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Leiner, Mordechai Joseph 1802-1854 / Hassidism / World / God / Dream
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
NBC Doctrine of God
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