The language of truth : the Torah commentary of the Sefat Emet, Rabbi Yehudah Leib Alter of Ger / translated and interpreted by Arthur Green ; Hebrew texts prepared by Shai Gluskin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alter, Judah Aryeh Leib, 1847-1905.

Contributor:

Green, Arthur, 1941-

Gluskin, Shai.

Standardized Title:

Śefat emet (Torah). Selections. English & Hebrew

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Bible. Pentateuch--Commentaries.

Bible.

Bible. Pentateuch.

Fasts and feasts--Judaism--Meditations.

Fasts and feasts.

Fasts and feasts--Judaism.

Hasidism.

Genre:

Meditations.

Physical Description:

lviii, 427, 119 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Sefer Śefat emet

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 1998.

Summary:

The Hasidic teacher known as the "Sefat Emet", literally "the language of truth", was one of the last great masters of Polish Hasidism. Known to be a mystic but not a kabbalist, the Sefat Emet left behind a rich legacy of insight and theology upon his death in 1905. Professor Arthur Green, one of the leading scholars on Hasidism and modern Jewish theology, has brought together and translated a wide selection of the Sefat Emet's teachings; Green also includes his own commentary on the teachings of the Sefat Emet, and in so doing has achieved a remarkable work of Jewish scholarship, bringing the teachings of this insightful Hasidic master to a wide audience of both traditional and nontraditional Jews.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0827606508

OCLC:

37837674