The way to walk spiritual instructinos of eighteenth-century Hasidism introduced, translated, and annotated by Arthur Green

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Green, Arthur, 1941- writer of introduction, translator, writer of added commentary.

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Hasidism.

Spiritual life--Judaism.

Spiritual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Boston Academic Studies Press 2026

Summary:

"The Way to Walk is a collection of early Hasidic instructions for living a proper moral and spiritual life. These were written for an emerging new spiritual elite among the followers of R. Yisra’el Ba‘al Shem Tov, composed in the two decades following his death in 1760. Hasidism was not yet a popular movement: it began rather as a small community of those seeking a more intense spiritual path than could be expected of the general public. These are the key documents that defined that path, one that was to lead toward devekut, or intimate attachment to God"-- De Gruyter brill

Contents:

Upright words of truth : two epistles / R. Meshullam Feibush Heller of Zbarasz

The ways of the upright / R. Menaẖem Mendel of Premishlian

The ways of righteousness / R. Zekhariah Mendel of Yaroslav

The holy epistle / R. Eleazar (Weissblum), son of R. Elimelekh of Lizhensk

Yom Kippur in the synagogue of R. Shmelke of Nikolsburg (5536 [= 1775]) / a disciple of R. Shmelke

Upright practices / R. Menaẖem Naẖum of Chernobyl

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed April 8, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Way to walk

ISBN:

9798897831081

9798897831098

OCLC:

1582345910

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license