Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism - Rabbi Dr. Eli Rubin
Kabbalah and the Rupture of
Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism
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 ultimately morphed into religious and social schism. These debates confronted the meaning of being and forged the…
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