Memoirs of Jewish life in the east European shtetl often recall the hekdesh (town poorhouse)
and its residents: beggars, madmen and madwomen, disabled people, and poor orphans …

In Yearnings of the Soul, Jonathan Garb uncovers a crucial thread in the story of modern
Kabbalah and modern mysticism more generally: psychology. Returning psychology to its …

In Judaism, holiness pertains to Torah to such a degree that numerous religious norms
determine scriptural handling, not only during everyday rituals, but also when it concerns …

All religions describe spiritual experience as pleasant, and the goal of the religious pursuit
as profoundly joyful. But many religions also condemn sensory pleasures and the desire for …

This article discusses Tzvi Avni's Second Piano Sonata, Epitaph, a sonic commentary on
one of the inner tales in Rabbi Nachman's “The Seven Beggars”. Written between 1974 and …

ABSTRACT R. Naḥman of Bratslav's magnum opus, Liqutey Moharan, expresses
contradictory attitudes toward the value and ontological primacy of books as opposed to …

The present project draws a comparison between the literature and thought of Hasidic Rabbi
Nachman of Braslav (1772–1810) and Argentine writer and public intellectual Jorge Luis …

In the cultural scenario of Pakistan religion plays an integral role in believes, notions,
attitudes, behaviors, and social interactions. Surprisingly, the marriages that are settled by …

Situates a Hasidic master in the context of his time, demonstrating his formative influence on
Jewish literary modernity. The Hasidic leader R. Nachman of Braslav (1772–1810) has held …

This article analyses the romantic-Zionist poetry of Nina Davis Salaman, contextualising it
alongside other fin-de-siècle Zionist poets to argue that she too similarly adopted …