“ A New Hasidism is a treasure for the heart and mind. The result is a landmark contribution to Jewish spirituality.”- David Biale, Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis, and editor-in-chief of Hasidism: A New History Now, Arthur Green and Ariel Mayse, both scholars of Hasidism and committed spiritual seekers, have assembled critical texts for the fashioning of neo-Hasidism in the twenty-first century. “ For more than a hundred years, people in search of religious renewal who are not Hasidic have found inspiration in Hasidism. It draws us into an important conversation that will enrich our lives and the lives of those we touch as teachers and rabbis.”- Rabbi Laura Geller, CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly “A New Hasidism describes the renewal of Jewish life that I and so many of our colleagues have found to be meaningful. Previously unpublished materials by Carlebach and Schachter-Shalomi include an insider interview with Schachter-Shalomi about his decision to leave Chabad-Lubavitch and embark on his own Neo-Hasidic path. Zeitlin and Buber initiated a renewal of Hasidism for the modern world Heschel’s work is quietly infused with Neo-Hasidic thought Carlebach and Schachter-Shalomi re-created Neo-Hasidism for American Jews in the 1960s and Green is the first American-born Jewish thinker fully identified with the movement. The editors’ introductions and notes analyze each thinker’s contributions to Neo-Hasidic thought and influence on the movement. The thinkers reflect on the inner life of the individual and their dreams of creating a Neo-Hasidic spiritual community.
This first-ever anthology of Neo-Hasidic philosophy brings together the writings of its progenitors: five great twentieth-century European and American Jewish thinkers-Hillel Zeitlin, Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Shlomo Carlebach, and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi-plus a young Arthur Green.
Neo-Hasidism applies the spiritual insights of the Hasidic masters-God’s presence everywhere, seeking the magnificent within the everyday, doing all things with love and joy, uplifting all of life to become a vehicle of God’s service-to contemporary Judaism, as practiced by men and women who do not live within the strictly bounded world of the Hasidic community.
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