The revealed and hidden writings of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav : his worlds of revelation and rectification / Zvi Mark ; translated by Yaacov David Shulman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mark, Zvi, author.

Contributor:

Shulman, Yaacov Dovid, 1956- translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Naḥman, of Bratslav, 1772-1811.

Naḥman.

Hasidism.

Bratslav Hasidim.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Zvi Mark uncovers previously unknown and never-before-discussed aspects of Rabbi Nachman’s personal spiritual world. The first section of the book, Revelation, explores Rabbi Nachman’s spiritual revelations, personal trials and spiritual experiments. Among the topics discussed is the powerful “Story of the Bread,” wherein Rabbi Nachman receives the Torah as did Moses on Mount Sinai – a story that was kept secret for 200 years. The second section of the book, Rectification, is dedicated to the rituals of rectification that Rabbi Nachman established. These are, principally, the universal rectification, the rectification for a nocturnal emission and the rectification to be performed during pilgrimage to his grave. In this context, the secret story, “The Story of the Armor,” is discussed. The book ends with a colorful description of Bratzlav Hasidism in the 21st century.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One. The Test of Letter Combinations: The Mystical Initiation Ceremony that Rabbi Nachman Underwent, and its Echoes in Likutei Moharan

Chapter Two. “The Story of the Bread”: Receiving the Torah

Chapter Three. The Stream of Mystical Consciousness: The Character of Mystical Experience and the Way that it is Shaped as Literature in “The Guest Who Came In”

Introduction: The Enterprise of Rectifications

Chapter Four. The Formulation of the Universal Rectification, the Rectification for a Nocturnal Emission, and the Pilgrimage to Rabbi Nachman’s Grave–and their Connection to Bratslavian Messianic Fervor

Chapter Five. The Booklet of Tests and Rabbi Nachman’s Practice of not Avoiding Tests

Chapter Six. “The Story of the Armor”: More from the Bratslav Archives Containing Suppressed Texts

Chapter Seven. Arrows and Melodies: “The Story of the Beggar without Hands”

Chapter Eight. Uman – “Behold, I Give Over my Soul”

Chapter Nine. Two Hundred Years Later – from Individual to Universal Rectification: The Pilgrimage to Uman on Rosh Hashanah, the Worldwide Universal Rectification, Tashlikh and Body Jewelry

Afterword

Appendix One. “The Story of Rabbi Perachia”: Additional Links between the Zoharic Literature and “The Guest Who Came In”

Appendix Two. Mysticism and the “Stream of Consciousness”: a Note Following the Analysis of “The Guest Who Came In”

Appendix Three. Photographs of Manuscript Pages

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 11, 2015).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9783110407747

3110407744

9783110407778

3110407779

OCLC:

908519379