The Paradoxical Ascent to God

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Автор:Rachel Elior

Название:The Paradoxical Ascent to God: The Kabbalistic Theosophy of Habad Hasidism

Издательство:SUNY Press (State University of New York Press)

Серия:Suny Series in Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion

Год:1993

Формат:PDF

Размер:42.9 MB

Язык: Английский

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Rachel Elior's "The Paradoxical Ascent to God: The Kabbalistic Theosophy of Habad Hasidism" is a scholarly treatment of early Habad thought on the nature of God, and its expression in religious practice.

The title reveals much of thesis. Merging with God, devekut, is strongly stressed in Habad, often in linear language. One ascends to God, moves up to God; but in reality, God is everywhere in Habad theology, so there is no up, no down.

The struggle between God as transcendent and imminent, as separate from the world and as permeating the world, guides Elior's study. She explores how early Habad struggled with its own unique conception of a God as both present and absent from the world.