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The legend of the Baal-Shem / Martin Buber ; translated from the German by Maurice Friedman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buber, Martin, 1878-1965, author.
- Series:
- Bollingen Series (General) ; 131
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baʻal Shem Ṭov, approximately 1700-1760.
- Baʻal Shem Ṭov.
- Hasidim--Legends.
- Hasidim.
- Hasidism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1955]
- Summary:
- The Jewish philosopher Martin Buber spoke directly to the most profound human concerns in all his works, including his discussions of Hasidism, a mystical-religious movement founded in Eastern Europe by Israel ben Eliezer, called the Baal-Shem (the Master of God's Name). Living in the first part of the eighteenth century in Podolia and Wolhynia, the Baal-Shem braved scorn and rejection from the rabbinical establishment and attracted followers from among the common people, the poor, and the mystically inclined. Here Buber offers a sensitive and intuitive account of Hasidism, followed by twenty stories about the life of the Baal-Shem. This book is the earliest and one of the most delightful of Buber's seven volumes on Hasidism and can be read not only as a collection of myth but as a key to understanding the central theme of Buber's thought: the I-Thou, or dialogical, relationship. "All positive religion rests on an enormous simplification of the manifold and wildly engulfing forces that invade us: it is the subduing of the fullness of existence. All myth, in contrast, is the expression of the fullness of existence, its image, its sign; it drinks incessantly from the gushing fountains of life."--Martin Buber, from the introduction
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- The Life of the Hasidim.
- The Werewolf
- The Prince of Fire
- The Revelation
- The Martyrs and the Revenge
- The Heavenly Journey
- Jerusalem
- Saul and David
- The Prayer-Book
- The Judgement
- The Forgotten Story
- The Soul Which Descended
- The Psalm-Singer
- The Disturbed Sabbath
- The Conversion
- The Return
- From Strength to Strength
- The Threefold Laugh
- The Language of the Birds
- The Call
- The Shepherd
- GLOSSARY
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780691214337
- 0691214336
- OCLC:
- 1198929618
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