Format:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9781786949899
Series Statement:
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Ser.
Content:
This book is a history, an indictment, a lament, and an appeal, focusing on the messianic trend in Lubavitch hasidism. It records the shattering of one of Judaism's core beliefs and the remarkable equanimity with which the standard-bearers of Orthodoxy have allowed it to happen. This is a development of striking importance for the history of religions, and it is an earthquake in the history of Judaism. David Berger describes the unfolding of this historic phenomenon and proposes a strategy to contain it.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Note on Style and Transliteration -- Introduction to the Paperback Edition -- Introduction -- 1 From Heroism to Heterodoxy: The Crisis of a Movement and the Danger to a Faith -- 2 The New Messianism: Passing Phenomenon or Turning Point in the History of Judaism? -- 3 Aborted Initiatives and Sustained Attacks -- 4 The Second Coming: A Rejoinder -- 5 Revisiting the Second Coming -- 6 The Rabbinical Council of America Resolution -- 7 The Council of Torah Sages -- 8 The Spectre of Idolatry -- 9 On False Messianism, Idolatry, and Lubavitch -- 10 Debating Avodah Zarah -- 11 Judaism is Changing Before Our Eyes -- 12 From Margin to Mainstream: The Consolidation and Expansion of the Messianist Beachhead -- 13 Explaining the Inexplicable -- 14 What Must Be Done? -- Epitaph -- APPENDIX I: On a Messiah who Dies with his Mission Unfulfilled: Selected Quotations -- APPENDIX II: The Parameters of Avodah Zarah -- APPENDIX III: Tosafot on 'Association' (Shituf) -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781904113751
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781904113751
Language:
English
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