Holiness and Law : : Kabbalistic Customs and Sexual Abstinence in Hasidism / / Benjamin Brown.
Hasidic groups have myriad customs. While ordinary Jewish law (halakhah) denotes the “bar of holiness” mandated for the ordinary Jew, these customs represent the higher threshold expected of Hasidim, intended to justify their title as hasidim (“pious”). How did the hasidic masters perceive the enact...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2024 Part 1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2024] ©2024 |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studia Judaica : Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XII, 232 p.) |
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