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Dobh Bear of Lubavitch (1773-1827), the author of Tract on Ecstasy,
assumed the leadership of the Hasidic sect of Habad on the death of
its founder, Schneor Zalman of Liady. The tract is in the form of a
letter, sent by Dobh Baer to his followers, advising them on the
role of ecstasy in the religious life. Although the teachers of
Hasidism were seasoned Talmudists who could not have been accused
of neglecting the claims of the intellect in the life of religion,
it remains true, nonetheless, that for most of them Hasidism
appealed chiefly to the emotions. Religious ecstasy, particularly
in prayer, was the good to be cultivated by the Hasid.
Contemplation was of value, but mainly because of the ecstasy it
could induce. When Dobh Baer assumed leadership of the Habad,
however, he found much confusion in the understanding of ecstasy
and its relationship to self-awareness. His thesis in the Tract on
Ecstasy is that those who decry ecstasy are wrong, and that there
is no such thing as a de-personalised state of contemplation in
which the self does not feel anything. On the contrary, the power
and validity of contemplation was to be observed in the degree of
ecstasy it induced. Drawing a distinction between authentic and
unauthentic ecstasy, Dobh Baer refutes the charge that because
ecstasy involves self-awareness it is therefore a betrayal of Habad
teaching, and in the Tract on Ecstasy provides a penetrating
analysis of the degrees of true ecstasy. The Tract was originally
written c.1814, and this book is based on a manuscript copy,
probably written by Samuel, Dobh Baer's chief scribe and copyist.
The reader cannot fail to hear through these pages the voice of one
who was an adept, to use his own terminology, in listening to 'the
words of the living God'.
This book deals with the life and thought of an original but
neglected religious thinker who, perhaps more than any other in the
history of Jewish thought, grappled with the problems inherent in
the idea of God's unity. Rabbi Aaron Horowitz is generally
acknowledged to be the most outstanding, systematic exponent of the
profound Habad theory of Hasidism. With the renewed interest in
Jewish mysticism in general and Hasidism in particular, this work
can serve as an excellent introduction to the more intricate and
stimulating ideas of the Movement, normally to be found only in
recondite tomes written in difficult Rabbinic Hebrew and therefore
beyond the scope of even serious students of the subject. One of
the most striking features of the book is the way it demonstrates
that there is a close affinity between Habad thought and Far
Eastern spirituality. Dr Jacobs has succeeded in bringing a
vanished world to life for the modern reader.
In the traditional Talmudic methodologies, the subjects of Talmudic
logic and methodology are generally treated together. With a few
notable exceptions, there has been little attempt at a systematic
presentation of such matters as the structure of the Talmudic
arguments, the division of the sugya into its component parts, the
methods of Talmudic reasoning, and the literary style and character
of the Amoraic debates. This book notes some of the problems in
this field and suggests some tentative solutions. The first part
sheds light on Talmudic logic, in particular suggesting the
ancients were aware of the process of Induction. The second part
examines the literary analysis of the Amoraic literature, and
argues that the Gemara in its present form is a 'contrived'
literary product of great skill in which the older material used
has been reshaped by methods similar to literary artists throughout
the ages. Although the book is presented for the considerations of
students of the Talmud, it m
Rabbi Jacobs, with sixty years' experience of pulpit work to his
credit, provides a number of homilies for each weekly portion of
the modern sermon and for the chapters of Ethics of the Fathers.
The text for the modern sermon is usually the sidra, the weekly
portion, or, in the summer months the Talmudic book known
universally as Ethics of the Fathers. Among the sermonic themes are
contemporary problems, the religious and ethical needs of the
individual, and, of course, the impact of the Holocaust and the
State of Israel.
This book examines the basic beliefs of Judaism in light of modern
thought. Its shape is traditional but not fundamentalist. This
book, the main cause of the 'Jacobs Affair' in which the author's
appointment to an Orthodox Rabbinic position was vetoed, suggests
that the doctrine Torah Min Ha-Shamayyin (The Torah is from Heaven)
needs to be reinterpreted so as not to be in conflict with modern
knowledge. The controversy erupted again in the 1990s when Chief
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks declared that those who hold views similar to
the author's have severed links with the faith of their ancestors.
This expanded fifth edition, with a Preface by William Frankel and
a Retrospect of the 'Jacobs Affair' by the author, will enable
readers to follow the argument and make up their own minds.
Some 111 million years ago, deep in the heart of Texas, a herd of
twenty-ton dinosaurs sauntered across a wet mud flat. Their
footprints eventually became frozen in stone, leaving a sign of one
fleeting moment of a particular day in the lives of these
magnificent creatures. Today, after mountains of time have passed,
the story of dinosaurs in what is now Texas is being reconstructed,
footprint by footprint, bone by bone. Lone Star Dinosaurs tells
that story, along with the exciting tale of the discoveries that
have opened a peephole into the past. Behind each fossil find,
there is not just a dinosaur but a person-- sometimes a
child--whose spark of curiosity lights the picture of prehistory.
This is a thrilling story, engagingly written and beautifully
illustrated, through which young and old alike can enter the world
of the dinosaurs and the world of the dinosaur hunters. Dinosaurs
are a Texas legacy from worlds long past. Pleurocoelus,
Alamosaurus, Acrocanthosaurus, Chasmosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, and
Tenontosaurus are among the representatives Texas boasts of every
basic group of dinosaurs--a remarkable diversity that samples
nearly the entire range of dinosaurian development over an immense
expanse of time. In fact, the three dinosaur-bearing areas within
the state--the Panhandle, Central Texas, and Big Bend--yield
treasures of vastly different ages, from the beginning of the
Mesozoic Era more than 200 million years ago to the time of the big
extinction some 66 million years ago. These dinosaurs lived in such
different arrangements of the continents and oceans that they may
as well have lived in different worlds. Their stories offer a
compelling picture of the history of life on our planet.
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Responsa are replies given by prominent rabbinic authorities to
questions put to them by other scholars, asking for rulings on
specific issues, generally of a practical nature. The responsa
literature is thus a repository of the learning and sound sense of
some of the greatest rabbinic authorities over a period of more
than a thousand years down to the present, and relates to all the
countries where Jews have lived. Although most of the emphasis in
the responsa literature is undoubtedly on practice, nearly all the
great compilations of responsa also contain discussions of a
theological nature since changing conditions posed problems for
belief as well as practice. In this volume, first published in 1975
and unrivalled in its treatment of the subject, Louis Jacobs
examines those responsa in which theology is considered and
highlights the changes that have occurred in the theological
principles affecting the rabbis' attitudes to such questions as
life after death, reward and punishment, and the problem of
suffering.
More than forty years have passed since Louis Jacobs first put
forward the argument that traditionally observant Jews have no
reason to take issue with the results obtained by the historical
critics in their investigation into the Bible and the other
classical sources of Judaism. In his numerous works on Jewish
theology and in lectures worldwide, Jacobs has argued that the
traditional doctrine which claims that 'the Torah is from Heaven'
can and should be maintained -- provided that the word 'from' is
understood in a non-fundamentalist way to denote that there is a
human as well as a divine element in the Torah: God revealing His
will not only to but through the Jewish people in their historical
experiences as they reached out to Him.
As a result of these views, which were first published in the
still-controversial text. We Have Reason to Believe, the
Anglo-Jewish Orthodox hierarchy banned Jacobs from serving as an
Orthodox rabbi. This was the cause of the notorious 'Jacobs
affair', which culminated in the creation of the New London
Synagogue and, eventually, in the establishment of the Masorti
movement in the UK with strong, affinities with Conservative
Judaism in the United States.
In this new book, Louis Jacobs examines afresh all the issues
involved. He does so objectively but with passion, meeting the
objections put forward by critics from the various trends within
the Jewish world, both Orthodox and Reform, and inviting readers to
follow the argument and make up their own minds.
Now revised and expanded, Louis Jacobs's fascinating study shows
how halakhic rulings through the ages have been influenced by
social, economic, theological, and even political factors as well
as by consideration of the wider ideals and demands of Judaism.
Halakhic responses to changed social considerations, particularly
regarding women and questions of personal status, new techologies
and discoveries, and attitudes to non-Jews are all considered in
depth.
Turn Aside from Evil and Do Good was written by Zevi Hirsch
Eichenstein (1763-1831), a hasidic master and renowned adept in
Lurianic kabbalah. He wrote it with the intention of providing a
guide to would-be hasidic kabbalists on how to live a holy life.
Eichenstein was unusual in the hasidic world in that as well as
being a kabbalist he was a competent talmudist and was also
acquainted both with the science of his day and with medieval
Jewish philosophy. His views differ from those of other hasidic
masters, principally in the importance he attributes to studying
the kabbalah, which he considers an important antidote to unbelief,
and in his more positive attitude to the enjoyment of sexual
activity and to business activity; he is concerned to show how both
can be integrated in a holy life. This lively translation by Louis
Jacobs of the second edition (1850), which includes the notes of R.
Zevi Elimelekh of Dynow, gives the reader an insight into a highly
unconventional hasidic master and 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 other opaque terms, and clarifies
the sources to which the author alludes. Turn Aside from Evil and
Do Good conveys the full flavour of an original hasidic approach to
kabbalism. Immensely readable, it will be of interest to anyone
interested in hasidism and Jewish mysticism or the religious way
and its social history. Louis Jacobs has added a very accessible
introduction to explain the Lurianic system of kabbalah; he also
provides biographical details of Eichenstein and his school, and a
full bibliography.
From its very beginnings in the eighteenth century, the Hasidic
movement was suffused with a joyous enthusiasm and optimism derived
from the notion of God being in all things. This led to an
insistence on joy as an essential element in divine worship, and in
consequence a distinctive attitude to prayer. This classic work,
presented here with a new introduction, is a study of the attitudes
of the hasidic rebbes to prayer. Louis Jacobs bases himself
principally on the works compiled by rebbes themselves and records
preserved by their disciples. Copious quotations from these
writings form a sound basis for his masterly analysis-unsurpassed
since it was first published in 1972-and enable the reader to gain
a familiarity with Hasidic thought on the subject of divine worship
at first hand.
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