Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism - Hardcover
by Eli Rubin
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Availability:In StockContributor:Eli RubinSeries:Stanford Studies in Jewish MysticismPublish date:03/25/25Pages:446
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503642072ISBN-10:1503642070UPC:9781503642072Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:Judaism, JewishBook Topic:History, Kabbalah & MysticismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.27 inchesWeight:1.6513Product ID:SCQS2T9V8X
Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity provides a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of Chabad Hasidism through the Kabbalistic concept of ṣimṣum. The onset of modernity, Eli Rubin argues, was heralded by this startling idea: existence itself is predicated on a self-inflicted "rupture" in the infinite assertion of divinity. Centuries of theoretical disputations concerning ṣimṣum...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503642072ISBN-10:1503642070UPC:9781503642072Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:Judaism, JewishBook Topic:History, Kabbalah & MysticismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.27 inchesWeight:1.6513Product ID:SCQS2T9V8X
Eli Rubin is a contributing editor at Chabad.org. He received his PhD from the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
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