Hasidism incarnate : Hasidism, Christianity, and the construction of modern Judaism /
Shaul Magid.
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource.
- Encountering traditions .
Includes bibliographies 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 Ya.Aakov Koppel Lifshitz of Mezritch's Sha.Aarei 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.