{"product_id":"the-legend-of-the-baal-shem-martin-buber-9780691043890","title":"The Legend of the Baal-Shem","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Jewish philosopher Martin Buber spoke directly to the most profound human concerns in all his works, including his discussions of Hasidism, a mystical-religious movement founded in Eastern Europe by Israel ben Eliezer, called the Baal-Shem (the Master of God's Name). Living in the first part of the eighteenth century in Podolia and Wolhynia, the Baal-Shem braved scorn and rejection from the rabbinical establishment and attracted followers from among the common people, the poor, and the mystically inclined. Here Buber offers a sensitive and intuitive account of Hasidism, followed by twenty stories about the life of the Baal-Shem. This book is the earliest and one of the most delightful of Buber's seven volumes on Hasidism and can be read not only as a collection of myth but as a key to understanding the central theme of Buber's thought: the I-Thou, or dialogical, relationship. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"All positive religion rests on an enormous simplification of the manifold and wildly engulfing forces that invade us: it is the subduing of the fullness of existence. All myth, in contrast, is the expression of the fullness of existence, its image, its sign; it drinks incessantly from the gushing fountains of life.\"--Martin Buber, from the introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martin Buber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691043892\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691043890\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.49h x 5.47w x 0.59d","brand":"Martin Buber","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981098057983,"sku":"9780691043890","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_098aa8a4-6372-4fc2-9e15-a7eb5765683e.jpg?v=1683253643","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-legend-of-the-baal-shem-martin-buber-9780691043890","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}