Hasidism incarnate : Hasidism, Christianity, and the construction of modern Judaism /
Shaul Magid.
- 1 online resource.
- Encountering traditions .
- Encountering traditions. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : incarnation and incarnational thinking -- Divinization and incarnational thinking in Hasidism: an overview -- Charisma speaking: uniqueness, incarnation, and sacred language (lashon ha-kodesh) in Nahman of Bratslav's self-fashioning -- Jewish ethics through a Hasidic lens: incarnation, the law, and the universal -- Malkhut as kenosis: malkhut and the zaddik in Yaʻakov Koppel Lifshitz of Mezritch's Shaʻarei Gan Eden -- "Brother where art thou?": reflections on Jesus in Martin Buber and the Hasidic master R. Shmuel Bornstein of Sochaczev -- Liberal Judaism, Christianity, and the specter of Hasidism.