God's Voice from the Void: Old and New Studies in Bratslav Hasidism

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vii CONTENTS Introduction and Acknowledgments / ix Part I NEW STUDIES Shir Yedidut: A Pleasant Song of Companionship / 3 Anonymous translated and annotated by Aubrey L. Glazer Chapter 1 Associative Midrash: Reflections on a Hermenuetical Theory in Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav’s Likkutei MoHaRan / 15 Shaul Magid Chapter 2 The Master of Prayer: Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav / 67 David G. Roskies Chapter 3 The Cut That Binds: Time, Memory, and the Ascetic Impulse (Reflections on Bratslav Hasidism) / 103 Elliot R. Wolfson Chapter 4 Adorning the Souls of the Dead: Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav and Tikkun HaNeshamot / 155 Yakov Travis Chapter 5 Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav: The Zaddik as Androgyne / 193 Nathaniel Deutsch viii Contents Chapter 6 Saying Nihilism: A Review of Marc-Alain Ouaknin’s The Burnt Book / 217 Martin Kavka Part II OLD STUDIES Chapter 7 Messiah and the Light of the Messiah in Rabbi Nahman’s Thought / 239 Hillel Zeitlin translated by Alyssa Quint Chapter 8 Rabbi Nahman, Romanticism, and Rationalism / 263 Samuel Abba Horodetzsky translated by Martin Kavka Chapter 9 Mystical Hasidism and the Hasidism of Faith: A Typogogical Analysis / 277 Joseph Weiss translated by Jeremy Kalmanofsky About the Contributors / 287 Index / 289 ...