Turn Aside from Evil and Do Good: An Introduction and a Way to the Tree of Life - Brossura

Eichenstein, Zevi Hirsch; Jacobs, Louis; Dynow, Zevi Elimelech; Tsevi Hirsh, Mi-Ziditshov

 
9781874774112: Turn Aside from Evil and Do Good: An Introduction and a Way to the Tree of Life
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ISBN 10: 1874774110 ISBN 13: 9781874774112
Casa editrice: Littman Library of Jewish, 1995

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Turn Aside from Evil and Do Good was written by a somewhat unconventional hasidic master Zevi Hirsch Eichenstein (1763-1831), with the intention of providing a guide to how to live a saintly life. His views differ from those of other hasidic masters principally in the importance he attributes to studying the kabbalah, which he considers the sole antidote to unbelief, and his positive attitude to sex and to money. From all accounts he himself led a comparatively frugal life, but he still advocated that his followers should have due regard for material prosperity gained by honest means and should certainly devote time to business activity. This lively translation by the distinguished scholar Louis Jacobs gives the reader access to the thoughts and modes of expression of an unusual hasidic master and to the basic ideas of Lurianic kabbalah as he perceived them. Through hundreds of scholarly annotations, printed at the foot of each page for ease of reference, Louis Jacobs helps the reader to understand the kabbalistic ideas and imagery and clarifies the sources to which the author alludes.

Turn Aside from Evil and Do Good conveys the full flavour of original hasidic-kabbalistic thinking. It will be of interest to anyone interested in hasidism and Jewish mysticism or the religious way of life more generally, as well as to social historians. Louis Jacobs has added a very accessible Introduction that provides a succinct explanation of the Lurianic system of kabbalah. He also provides biographic details of Eichenstein and his school, and a full bibliography.

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Louis Jacobs, founding rabbi of the New London Synagogue, was a renowned scholar with an international reputation as a lecturer. He is the author of The Jewish Religion: A Companion (1995) and of many other distinguished books, several of them published by the Littman Library, including Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1999) and Hasidic Prayer (paperback 1993), Theology in the Responsa (paperback 2005), and A Tree of Life: Diversity, Flexibility, and Creativity in Jewish Law (second edition 2000). He died in 2006.

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Editore
Littman Library of Jewish
Data di pubblicazione
1995
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1874774110
ISBN 13 
9781874774112
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Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
198
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ISBN 10:  1874774102 ISBN 13:  9781874774105
Casa editrice: Littman Library of Jewish, 1995
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