Letters of Light, Passages from the Ma’or-va-shemesk
written by Kalonymus Kalman Epstein, 1753-1823 (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2015, originally published 2015), 283 page(s)
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- Abstract / Summary
- Letters of Light is a translation of over ninety passages from a well-known Hasidic text, Ma'or va-shemesh, consisting of homilies of Kalonymus Kalman Epstein of Krakow, together with a running commentary and analysis by Aryeh Wineman. With remarkable creativity, the Krakow preacher recast biblical episodes and texts through the prism both of the pietistic values of Hasidism, with its accent on the inner life and the Divine innerness of all existence, and of his ongoing wrestling with questions of the primacy of the individual vis-a-vis that of the community. The commentary traces the route leading from the Torah-text itself through various later sources to the Krakow preacher's own reading of the biblical text, one that often transforms the very tenor of the text he was expounding. Though composed almost two centuries ago, Ma'or va-shemesh comprises an impressive spiritual statement, many parts of which can speak to our own time and its spiritual strivings.
- Field of Interest
- Religion & Thought
- Author
- Kalonymus Kalman Epstein, 1753-1823
- Copyright Message
- Used by permission of Wipf and Stock Publishers. www.wipfandstock.com
- Content Type
- Book
- Duration
- 0 sec
- Format
- Text
- Original Publication Date
- 2015
- Page Count
- 283
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Publisher
- Wipf & Stock
- Place Published / Released
- Eugene, OR
- Subject
- Religion & Thought, Social Sciences, Canonical and Sacred Texts, النصوص الكنسية والمقدسية, Textes sacrés et canoniques, Kanonische und heilige Texte, טקסטים קנוניים ומקודשים, Textos Canónicos y Sagrados, Textos Canônicos e Sagrados, Chasidic, Jewish, Spiritual Reading, Judaism, Torah, Interpretation of, Jews
- Translator
- Aryeh Wineman, 1932-
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- النصوص الكنسية والمقدسية, Textes sacrés et canoniques, Kanonische und heilige Texte, טקסטים קנוניים ומקודשים, Textos Canónicos y Sagrados, Textos Canônicos e Sagrados