"Open to Me the Gates of Righteousness": The Pursuit of Holiness and Non-Duality in Early Hasidic Teaching
The author considers the thought of hasidic thinkers who offered a model of spirituality in which this world was infused with a transcendent spirituality. This model is an alternative to the readings of hasidic spirituality offered by Scholem and his students, and that of Buber. Scholem saw the rais...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penn Press
1998
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The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 1998, Volume: 89, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 3-44 |
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| Summary: | The author considers the thought of hasidic thinkers who offered a model of spirituality in which this world was infused with a transcendent spirituality. This model is an alternative to the readings of hasidic spirituality offered by Scholem and his students, and that of Buber. Scholem saw the raising of sparks as an ecstatic annihilation of the world within its transcendent source. Buber had represented hasidic engagement with material reality as a sacramentalizing of the world. The author charts a different course contending that hasidic practice follows early kabbalistic spirituality in advocating a mystical praxis that draws divine blessing into the cosmos. For these writers the material world is the ultimate site for divine creativity and the focal point for the labors of the mystical adepts; while they do want to integrate their spiritualized perception of the material world into the transcendent paradigm, they reaffirm the value of the multifariousness of the material world as the locale of divine presence and recipient of divine blessing. |
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| ISSN: | 1553-0604 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Jewish quarterly review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1455286 |