Renewal and Redemption: Spirituality, Law, and Religious Praxis in the Writings of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924-2014) was a creative thinker and dynamic teacher who inspired a spiritual awakening among North American Jews grounded in his reinterpretation of Hasidism and Kabbalah. Critical to this religious renaissance was Schachter-Shalomi’s reenvisioning of Jewish law. Th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
2021
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The journal of religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 101, Issue: 4, Pages: 455-504 |
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| Summary: | Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924-2014) was a creative thinker and dynamic teacher who inspired a spiritual awakening among North American Jews grounded in his reinterpretation of Hasidism and Kabbalah. Critical to this religious renaissance was Schachter-Shalomi’s reenvisioning of Jewish law. This study identifies three stages in his writings, revealing him to be a complicated, iconoclastic religious thinker whose relationship to traditional halakhah was ever changing. His works provide a rich scaffolding that will force scholars beyond the threadbare binary of "law" and "spirit" and into new conceptual categories in which ritual practice, religious law and spiritual uplift are imbricated. |
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| ISSN: | 1549-6538 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/715802 |