Letters of Light: Passages from Ma'or Va-Shemesh (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780227175378)

'Letters of Light' is a translation of over ninety passages from a well-known Hasidic text, 'Ma'or va-shemesh', consisting of homilies of Kalonymus Kalman Epstein of Krakow, together with a running commentary and analysis by Aryeh Wineman. With remarkable creativity, the Krakow preacher recast biblical episodes and texts through the prism both of the pietistic values of Hasidism, with its accent on the inner life and the Divine innerness of all existence, and of his ongoing wrestling with questions of the primacy of the individual vis-a-vis of the community. The commentary traces the route leading from the Torah text itself through various later sources to the Krakow preacher's own reading of the biblical text, one that often transforms the very tenor ofthe text he was expounding. Though composed almost two centuries ago, 'Ma'or va-shemesh' comprises an impressive spiritual statement, many aspects of which can speak to our own time and its spiritual strivings.

Author: Aryeh Wineman,Kalonymus Kalman Epstein
ISBN-10: 0227175379
ISBN-13: 9780227175378
Publisher: James Clarke Company
Language: English
Published: 08/27/2015
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d