Be-Ron Yaḥad : : Studies in Jewish Thought and Theology in Honor of Nehemia Polen / / ed. by Ariel Evan Mayse, Avraham Yizhak Green.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Adelman, Rachel,; Glazer, Aubrey L.,; Goshen-Gottstein, Alon,; Green, Arthur,; Holzer, Elie,; Kanarek, Jane L.,; Kauffman, Tsippi,; Leader, Ebn,; Loewenthal, Naftali,; Mayse, Ariel Evan,; Reiser, Daniel,; Rose, Or N.,; Rosen, Avraham,; Rosenberg, Michael,; Stillman, Avinoam J.,; Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb,
• HerausgeberIn: Green, Avraham Yizhak,; Mayse, Ariel Evan,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (580 p.)

The present volume honors Rabbi Professor Nehemia Polen, a rare scholar whose religious teachings, spiritual writings, and academic scholarship come together into a sustained project of interpretive imagination and engagement. With intellectual integrity and remarkable religious insight, Polen's work expands the reach of Torah into an academic quest for ever-broadening depth and connectivity. The essays in this collection, written by students, colleagues, and friends, are a testament to his enduring impact on the scholarly community. The contributions explore a range of historical periods and themes, centering upon the fields dear to Polen's heart, but they are united by a common thread: each essay is grounded in deeply engaged textual scholarship casting a glance upon the sources that is at once critical and beneficent. As a whole, they seek to give readers a richer sense of the fabric of Jewish interpretation and theology, including the history of Jewish mysticism, the promise and perils of exegesis, and the contemporary relevance of premodern and early modern texts.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Reading in Harmony: An Introduction -- Judaism as a Path of Love -- To Be or Not to Be: A Tale of Five Sisters -- From the Cleft of the Rock: The Eclipse of God in the Bible, Midrash, and Post-Holocaust Theology -- From Leviticus to Latkes: The Origins of Hanukkah's Miraculous Oil and the Meaning of the Festival -- Between Tradition and Innovation: The Pedagogical Possibilities of the Penai Yehoshua -- Rediscovering the Covenant: The Contemporary Hasidic Thought of Rabbi Shmuel Berezovsky of Slonim -- Protest or Discernment? Divine Limitation & Mystical Activism in the Qedushat Levi -- Leadership as Individual Relationships: A Close Study of the No'am Elimelekh -- Letter to Riga: Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn's Meditative System for a Young Woman -- Hasidic Women: Beyond Egalitarianist Discourse -- Prophecy and Imagination in the Teachings of R. Tzadoq ha-Kohen of Lublin, R. Abraham Isaac ha-Kohen Kook, and R. Kalonymous Kalman Shapira -- Poetics of Exegesis in the Sefat Emet's Homilies: Semantic Innovations for Discernment and Disclosure -- Transcendent God, Immanent Kabbalah: Polemics and Psychology in the Hasidic Teachings of R. Avraham ha-Malakh -- Losing the Princess-Returning to Self: Toward An Archetypal Mapping of the Soul -- Caring for the Graves of the Righteous: The Holocaust in Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin's Sippurei Ḥasidim -- "Like a Moth to the Flame": The Death of Nadav and Avihu in Hasidic Literature -- Index