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- Title
Hasidic Literature Concerning Rationales for the Commandments: Hasidism and Kabbalah in Their Cultural Context.
- Authors
Sachs-Shmueli, Leore; Goldschmidt, Roee
- Abstract
This article presents a first attempt to classify and present a group of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Hasidic texts as belonging to a specific literary genre: rationales for the commandments. In this category we include Sefer Toldot Ya'akov Yosef , by Ya'akov Yosef of Pollonye; Sefer derekh pikudekhah , by Tsvi Elimelekh of Dinov; Sefer otsar ha-@hayim , by Yits@hak Eizik Ye@hiel Safrin; Likute halakhot , by Nathan Sternharts of Nemirov; Derekh mitsvotekhah , by Menachem Mendel Schneerson; and, finally, Sefer be'erat Miriam , by Avraham Abele Kanarfogel. We survey the works broadly and relate them to one defined literary genre. In so doing, we offer a new framework for a scholarly discussion of the Hasidic occupation with nomos and kabbalah. We demonstrate how Hasidic works discussing rationales for the commandments simultaneously employ halakhic and kabbalistic perspectives, emphasizing the punctiliousness in their fulfilment, their theurgic efficacy, and personal-spiritual completeness.
- Subjects
HASIDISM; CABALA; COMMANDMENTS (Judaism); JEWISH law; SPIRITUALITY; 18TH century (Literary period); 19TH century (Literary period)
- Publication
Jewish Quarterly Review, 2024, Vol 114, Issue 1, p41
- ISSN
0021-6682
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/jqr.2024.a921348