Table of Contents
- Reading in Harmony: An Introduction
- Judaism as a Path of Love, Avraham Yizhak (Arthur) Green
- To Be or Not to Be: A Tale of Five Sisters, Avivah Gottlieb
Zornberg
- From the Cleft of the Rock: The Eclipse of God in the Bible,
Midrash, and Post-Holocaust Theology, Rachel Adelman
- The Unexpected Impact of Sections and Subsections in a
Translation of Vayyiqra Rabba: A Case Study, Chaim Milikowsky
- From Leviticus to Latkes: The Origins of Hanukkah's Miraculous
Oil and the Meaning of the Festival, Michael Rosenberg
- Between Tradition and Innovation: The Pedagogical Possibilities
of the Penai Yehoshua, Jane Kanarek
- Rediscovering the Covenant: The Contemporary Hasidic Thought of
Rabbi Shmuel Berezovsky of Slonim, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
- Protest or Discernment? Divine Limitation and Mystical Activism
in the Qedushat Levi, Or N. Rose
- Leadership as Individual Relationships: A Close Study of the
No'am Elimelekh, Ebn Leader
- Letter to Riga: Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn's Meditative
System for a Young Woman, Naftali Loewenthal
- Hasidic Women: Beyond Egalitarianist Discourse, Tsippi
Kauffman
- Prophecy and Imagination in the Teachings of R. Tzadoq ha-Kohen
of Lublin, R. Abraham Isaac ha-Kohen Kook, and R. Kalonymous Kalman
Shapira, Daniel Reiser
- Poetics of Exegesis in the Sefat Emet's Homilies: Semantic
Innovations for Discernment and Disclosure, Elie Holzer
- Transcendent God, Immanent Kabbalah: Prolegomena to the Hasidic
Teachings of R. Avraham ha-Malakh, Avinoam J. Stillman
- Losing the Princess: Returning to Self: An Archetypal-Ritual
Theory for Spiritual Journeying, Aubrey Glazer
- Caring for the Graves of the Righteous: The Holocaust in Rabbi
Shlomo Yosef Zevin's Sippurei Hasidim, Avraham Rosen
- "Like a Moth to the Flame": The Death of Nadav and Avihu in
Hasidic Literature, Ariel Evan Mayse
About the Author
Ariel Evan Mayse joined the faculty of Stanford
University in 2017 as an assistant professor in the Department of
Religious Studies, and is rabbi-in-residence of Atiq: Jewish Make
Institute (https://www.atiqmakers.org). He holds a Ph.D. in Jewish
Studies from Harvard University and rabbinic ordination from Beit
Midrash Har'el. His research examines the role of language in
Hasidism, the formation of early Hasidic literature, the
renaissance of Jewish mysticism in the nineteenth and twentieth
century, and the relationship between spirituality and law in
modern Jewish thought.Avraham Yizhak Green, a
nationally recognized historian of Jewish religion and a
theologian, is the founding dean of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew
College and now serves as its rector. He has lectured widely and
taught Jewish mysticism, Hasidism, and theology to several
generations of students at the University of Pennsylvania; the
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where he served as both dean
and president; Brandeis University; and Hebrew College. Green is
the founder of Havurat Shalom, an egalitarian Jewish community in
Somerville, MA, and remains a leading independent figure in the
Jewish renewal movement. He is the author or editor of more than a
dozen books, including: Speaking Torah: Spiritual Teachings
from Around the Maggid's Table (Jewish Lights, 2013); and
Radical Judaism: Rethinking God and Tradition (Yale University
Press, 2011), now available in Hebrew translation. His complete
translation of Me'or Eynayim, an early Hasidic classic, is
forthcoming with Stanford University Press.
