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The Legend of the Baal-Shem

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Availability:In StockContributor:Martin Buber, Maurice Friedman (Translator)Series:Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen World MythologyPublish date:1995-05-07Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691043890ISBN-10:691043892UPC:9780691043890Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:JudaismBook Topic:Rituals & PracticeSize:8.49 x 5.47 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.5401Product ID:SCW8XR6WFX

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
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691043890ISBN-10:691043892UPC:9780691043890Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:JudaismBook Topic:Rituals & PracticeSize:8.49 x 5.47 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.5401Product ID:SCW8XR6WFX
Martin Buber (1878-1965) was the author of numerous works in the fields of art, education, sociology, philosophy, philosophy of religion, and Biblical interpretation. Among his works are I and Thou, Good and Evil, and the novel For the Sake of Heaven.
Publisher: Princeton University Press

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