{"product_id":"9781906764128","title":"The Hasidic Derashah","description":"\u003cp\u003eHasidism, a movement of religious awakening and social reform, originated in the mid-eighteenth century. After two and a half centuries of crisis, upheaval, and renewal, it remains a vibrant way of life and a compelling aspect of Jewish experience. This book explores the profound intellectual and religious issues that the hasidic masters raised in their Torah commentary, and brings to the fore the living qualities of their sermons (derashot). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOra Wiskind-Elper addresses a spectrum of topics: creation, revelation, and redemption; hermeneutics, epistemology, psychology, Romanticism, poetry and poetics, art history, Hebrew fiction, cultural history, and tropes of Jewish suffering and hope. Fully engaged in the texts and their spirituality, she brings them to bear on postmodernist challenges to traditional spiritual and religious sensibilities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a comprehensive study, unique in pedagogy, clarity, and originality. It uses the full range of critical scholarship on hasidism as a social and ideological movement. At the same time, it maintains a strong focus on hasidic Torah commentary as a conveyor of theology and value. Each of its chapters presents a fundamentally new approach. Wiskind-Elper's translations are in themselves an innovative moment in the tradition and spiritual history of the passages she offers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Littman Library of Jewish Civilization","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051438555376,"sku":"9781906764128","price":59.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781906764128_p0.jpg?v=1763617277","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781906764128","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}