Zimzum
Author: Christoph Schulte
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2023-11-17
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1512824364
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Zimzum
Author: Gordon Lish
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Published: 2005-11-10
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781560257998
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Call it zimzum: how we manage the scandal of our progress from desire to the void, through contraction and distractedness. In this perilously original work, composed of six rigorously crafted parts—and informed by a desperately libidinous, grotesquely comic rage—one of the most controversial figures in contemporary American letters brilliantly captures our humanity and Zeitgeist. Central to the novel is the ravishing shriek of a man who seeks to preserve what little there is left to him. It is as if his head were in an ever-tightening vise as he frantically seeks connection with others, knowing all the while the futility of the enterprise. He yearns for some carnal knowledge. He is obsessed with the successful operation of a sexual device. His lover is insensitive, self-absorbed. What is he—a former insane asylum inmate, whose motto used to be "share and share alike," but is now "fair is fair"—supposed to do? Exuberant in the music of its ordinary utterances, anguished and poignant in its declaration of the facts of life, Zimzum is Lish's most compelling novel.
Zimzum
Author: Gordon Lish
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Call it zimzum: how we manage the scandal of our progress from desire to the void, through contraction and distractedness." "In this perilously original work, composed of six rigorously crafted parts - and informed by a desperately libidinous, grotesquely comic rage - one of the most controversial figures in contemporary American letters brilliantly captures our humanity and Zeitgeist. Central to the novel is the ravishing shriek of a man who seeks to preserve what little there is left to him." "It is as if his head were in an ever-tightening vise as he frantically seeks connection with others, knowing all the while the futility of the enterprise. He yearns for some carnal knowledge. He is obsessed with the successful operation of a sexual device. His lover is insensitive, self-absorbed. What is he - a former insane asylum inmate, whose motto used to be "share and share alike;" but is now "fair is fair" - supposed to do?" "Exuberant in the music of its ordinary utterances, anguished and poignant in its declaration of the facts of life, Zimzum is Lish's most compelling novel to date."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
From Metaphysics to Midrash
Author: Shaul Magid
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008-07-09
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0253000378
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In From Metaphysics to Midrash, Shaul Magid explores the exegetical tradition of Isaac Luria and his followers within the historical context in 16th-century Safed, a unique community that brought practitioners of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam into close contact with one another. Luria's scripture became a theater in which kabbalists redrew boundaries of difference in areas of ethnicity, gender, and the human relation to the divine. Magid investigates how cultural influences altered scriptural exegesis of Lurianic Kabbala in its philosophical, hermeneutical, and historical perspectives. He suggests that Luria and his followers were far from cloistered. They used their considerable skills to weigh in on important matters of the day, offering, at times, some surprising solutions to perennial theological problems.
Jung and the Monotheisms
Author: Joel Ryce-Menuhin
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780415104142
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides an exploration of some of the essential aspects of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Leading Jungian analysts, theologians and scholars bring to bear psychological, religious and historical perspectives in an attempt to uncover the nature and psychology of the three monotheisms.
Hasidism on the Margin
Author: Shaul Magid
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 0299192733
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hasidism on the Margin explores one of the most provocative and radical traditions of Hasidic thought, the school of Izbica and Radzin that Rabbi Gershon Henokh originated in nineteenth-century Poland. Shaul Magid traces the intellectual history of this strand of Judaism from medieval Jewish philosophy through centuries of Kabbalistic texts to the nineteenth century and into the present. He contextualizes the Hasidism of Izbica-Radzin in the larger philosophy and history of religions and provides a model for inquiry into other forms of Hasidism.
Mysticism, Magic, and Kabbalah in Ashkenazi Judaism
Author: Karl-Erich Grözinger
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9783110137446
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North America. The series he founded for that purpose, Studia Judaica, continues to offer a platform for scholarly studies and editions that cover all eras in the history of the Jewish religion.
Velvet Elvis
Author: Rob Bell
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2006-06-29
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0310273080
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Thinking God
Author: Alan Brill
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780881257267
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work is the first study in any language of the thought and writings of Rabbi Zadok HaKohen of Lublin (1823-1900), who created a blend of ecstatic Hasidism and intellectual Talmud study. With extensive citations of his writings, it will be an entry point to his thought for many American readers. To illuminate R. Zadok's innovative spiritual path, in which one attains mystical experience through intellectual study of Torah, Brill explores the realm of spiritual psychology with particular attention to individual growth, sin, determinism, and pluralism. He shows that R. Zadok's thought combined mystical, Aristotelian, and psychological elements. This work also sheds important light on Lithuanian talmudic intellectualism and Polish Hasidism. It is the first book to present a critical, analytical portrait of hasidic theology. Particular attention is paid to R. Zadok's teacher, Rabbi Mordekhai Leiner of Izbica, whose individualistic philosophy undergirds R. Zadok's teachings on the subject of free will. Finally, this superb study addresses the question of how a Jewish thinker in a traditional milieu was able to derive a theology with many elements we would consider modern, even though he was largely insulated from and, in theory, opposed to contemporary Western, non-religious thinkers. Published in association with Yeshiva University Press
Jesus Wants to Save Christians
Author: Rob Bell
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2009-03-17
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0310295319
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There is a church not too far from us that recently added a $25 million addition to their building. Our local newspaper ran a front-page story not too long ago about a study revealing that one in five people in our city lives in poverty. This is a book about those two numbers. Jesus Wants to save Christians is a book about faith and fear, wealth and war, poverty, power, safety, terror, Bibles, bombs, and homeland insecurity. It's about empty empires and the truth that everybody's a priest. It's about oppression, occupation, and what happens when Christians support, animate and participate in the very things Jesus came to set people free from. It's about what it means to be a part of the church of Jesus in a world where some people fly planes into buildings while others pick up groceries in Hummers.
