Sages And Dreamers

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN 13 : 9780671797782
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sages and Dreamers written by Elie Wiesel and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1991 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of more than 30 books, including the bestselling Souls on Fire and, most recently, The Forgotten, offers a collection of 25 portraits of men and women of the Bible, the Talmud, and the Hasidic tradition. Sages and Dreamers is a moving and revealing reminder of our common history, beliefs, and aspirations. Glossary.

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Pocket Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sages and Dreamers written by Elie Wiesel and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections by the Nobel-winning philosopher and novelist on the prophets, scribes, and rebbes who comprise the histories and myths of Jewish folklore. Most of these essays were originally given as lectures at the 92nd Street Y in New York, and even in written form they preserve the tone and tempo of extemporary speech. The style is anecdotal rather than scholarly, and Wiesel does not hesitate to bring his opinions to bear.

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0805211209
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wise Men and Their Tales written by Elie Wiesel and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wise Men and Their Tales, a master teacher gives us his fascinating insights into the lives of a wide range of biblical figures, Talmudic scholars, and Hasidic rabbis. The matriarch Sarah, fiercely guarding her son, Isaac, against the negative influence of his half-brother Ishmael; Samson, the solitary hero and protector of his people, whose singular weakness brought about his tragic end; Isaiah, caught in the middle of the struggle between God and man, his messages of anger and sorrow counterbalanced by his timeless, eloquent vision of a world at peace; the saintly Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi, who by virtue of a lifetime of good deeds was permitted to enter heaven while still alive and who tried to ensure a similar fate for all humanity by stealing the sword of the Angel of Death. Elie Wiesel tells the stories of these and other men and women who have been sent by God to help us find the godliness within our own lives. And what interests him most about these people is their humanity, in all its glorious complexity. They get angry—at God for demanding so much, and at people, for doing so little. They make mistakes. They get frustrated. But through it all one constant remains—their love for the people they have been charged to teach and their devotion to the Supreme Being who has sent them. In these tales of battles won and lost, of exile and redemption, of despair and renewal, we learn not only by listening to what they have come to tell us, but by watching as they live lives that are both grounded in earthly reality and that soar upward to the heavens.

Author : Nancy Swift Furlotti
Publisher : Fisher King Press
ISBN 13 : 1926715896
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dream and Its Amplification written by Nancy Swift Furlotti and published by Fisher King Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Dream and Its Amplification' unveils the language of the psyche that speaks to us in our dreams. We all dream at least 4-6 times each night yet remember very few. Those that rise to the surface of our conscious awareness beckon to be understood, like a letter addressed to us that arrives by post. Why would we not open it? The difficulty is in understanding what the dream symbols and images mean. Through amplification, C. G. Jung formulated a method of unveiling the deeper meaning of symbolic images. This becomes particularly important when the image does not carry a personal meaning or significance and is not part of a person's everyday life. Fourteen Jungian Analysts from around the world have contributed chapters to this book on areas of special interest to them in their work with dreams. This offers the seasoned dream worker as well as the novice great insight into the meaning of the dream and its amplification. Contributors to this edition of the Fisher King Review include: Erel Shalit, Nancy Swift Furlotti, Thomas Singer, Michael Conforti, Ken Kimmel, Gotthilf Isler, Nancy Qualls-Corbett, Henry Abramovitch, Kathryn Madden, Ron Schenk, Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, Christian Gaillard, Monika Wikman, and Gilda Frantz.

Author : Zalman Schacter-Shalomi
Publisher : Monkfish Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1939681626
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Heart Afire written by Zalman Schacter-Shalomi and published by Monkfish Book Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Heart Afire is an intimate, guided tour of many of the lesser-known and previously unpublished stories and teachings of the first three generations of Hasidism, especially those of the Ba'al Shem Tov, his heirs (male and female) and the students of his successor, the Maggid of Mezritch.

Author : David Patterson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438483996
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portraits written by David Patterson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elie Wiesel identified himself as a Vizhnitzer Hasid, who was above all things a witness to the testimony and teaching of the Jewish tradition at the core of the Hasidic tradition. While he is well known for his testimony on the Holocaust and as a messenger to humanity, he is less well known for his engagement with the teachings of Jewish tradition and the Hasidic heritage that informs that engagement. Portraits illuminates Wiesel's Jewish teachings and the Hasidic legacy that he embraced by examining how he brought to life the sages of the Jewish tradition. David Patterson reveals that Wiesel's Hasidic engagement with the holy texts of the Jewish tradition does not fall into the usual categories of exegesis or hermeneutics and of commentary or textual analysis. Rather, he engages not the text but the person, the teacher, and the soul. This book is a summons to remember the testimony reduced to ashes and the voices that cry out from those ashes. Just as the teaching is embodied in the teachers, so is the tradition embodied in their portraits.

Author : Frances Flannery-Dailey
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047413814
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreamers, Scribes, and Priests written by Frances Flannery-Dailey and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This investigation focuses on divinely-sent dreams in early Judaism and discusses their literary forms and socio-religious functions. It examines Jewish dreams in the Bible, Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Josephus, setting them in the wider context of antecedent and contemporary dream cultures. Part One grounds the project in the dream traditions of the ancient Near East, Hebrew Bible, Greece, and Rome. Part Two investigates the unique emphases of early Jewish dreams, including: a priestly and scribal milieu, access to various planes of reality, new roles for dream messengers, and incubation rituals. Part Three explores implications for several related topics of study, including the rise of apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism, and the social history of early Judaism.

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0307806405
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Somewhere a Master written by Elie Wiesel and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compassion of Reb Moshe-Leib, the vision of the Seer of Lublin, the wisdom of Reb Pinhas, the warmth of the Ba’al Shem Tov, the humor of Reb Naphtali–to their followers these sages appeared as kings, judges, and prophets. They communicated joy and wonder and fervor to the men and women who came to them in the depths of despair. They brought love and compassion to the persecuted Jews of Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania. For Jews who felt abandoned and forsaken by God, these Hasidic masters incarnated an irresistible call to help and salvation. The Rebbe combats sorrow with exuberance. He defeats resignation by exalting belief. He creates happiness so as not to yield to the sadness around him. He tells stories to escape the temptations of irreducible silence. It is Elie Wiesel’s unique gift to make the lives and tales of these great teachers as compelling now as they were in a different time and place. In the tradition of Hasidism itself, he leaves others to struggle with questions of justice, mercy, and vengeance, providing us instead with eternal truths and unshakable faith.

Author : Steven T. Katz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429018711
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holocaust Studies written by Steven T. Katz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great majority of Holocaust scholarship concentrates heavily, if not almost completely, on the Final Solution from the German side. The distinctive feature of this book, both individually and as a collection, is its concentration on the Holocaust from a Judeo-centric point of view. The present essays make a unique contribution by exploring issues such as: the effect of events specifically on Jewish women and children; the character of the Nazi policy of slave labor in as much as this essential program resulted in different treatment with regard to Jews as compared to other workers; how the destruction of European Jewry has been responded to by Jewish thinkers; and how Jewish values, such as the well-known principle that "all Jews are responsible for each other," were exemplified and lived out during the war. The collection also includes an essay on Elie Wiesel, and another that explores the much discussed, very controversial issue of Jewish resistance, as well as several essays on philosophical and comparative issues raised by the Shoah. (CS1075)

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0805243534
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Filled with Fire and Light written by Elie Wiesel and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are magnificent insights into the lives of biblical prophets and kings, talmudic sages, and Hasidic rabbis from the internationally acclaimed writer, Nobel laureate, and one of the world’s most honored and beloved teachers. “This posthumous collection encourages a path toward purpose and transcendence.” —The New York Times Book Review From a multitude of sources, Elie Wiesel culls facts, legends, and anecdotes to give us fascinating portraits of notable figures throughout Jewish history. Here is the prophet Elisha, wonder-worker and adviser to kings, whose compassion for those in need is matched only by his fiery temper. Here is the renowned scholar Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai, whose ingenuity in escaping from a besieged Jerusalem on the eve of its destruction by Roman legions in 70 CE laid the foundation for the rab­binic teachings and commentaries that revolutionized the practice and study of Judaism and have sustained the Jewish people for two thousand years of ongoing exile. And here is Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of Chabad Hasidism, languishing in a Czarist prison in 1798, the victim of a false accusation, engaging in theological discussions with his jailers that would form the basis for Chabad’s legendary method of engagement with the world at large. In recounting the life stories of these and other spiritual seekers, in delving into the struggles of human beings trying to create meaningful lives touched with sparks of the divine, Wiesel challenges and inspires us all to fill our own lives with commitment and sanctity.