'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 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 aspects of which can speak to our own time and its
spiritual strivings.
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