The Legend of the Baal-Shem - 9780691043890
Un libro in lingua di Martin Buber edito da Princeton Univ Pr, 1995
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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
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Legend of the Baal-Shem
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Martin Buber
- Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
- Collana: Princeton Univ Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 17 Aprile '95
- Genere: RELIGION
- Argomenti : Hasidism Hasidim Legends
- Dimensioni mm: 222 x 146 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0691043892
- EAN-13: 9780691043890