Article: A Heart Afire.(A Heart Afire: Stories And Teachings Of The Early Hasidic Masters)(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: Replacing Guilt with Gut
The Jerusalem Report;  April 30, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... previous books: "Judaism and Spiritual Ethics" (1996; with Steven S. Mason); "Forests of the Night: The Fear of God in Early Hasidic Thought" (1996); "God at the Edge: Searching for the Divine in Uncomfortable and Unexpected Places" (2000); "Lost ...

Article: Torah Studies Initiative hosts Hasidism class.(COMMUNITY NEWS)
The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA);  February 22, 2008 ;     366 words ... ... Movement--Hasidism in its First Generations," Dr. Etkes will examine the Baal Shem Tov's influence, the role of early Hasidic courts as centers of conversion, the new paradigm of the Hasidic Tzaddik, and competing models of Hasidic leadership ...

Article: 'Mad Dancers': Spiritual Journey With a Light Step
The Washington Post;  May 6, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... inhabit a half-dozen characters and accents. Hyman based his play on "The Seven Beggars," an unfinished tale by the early Hasidic master Rebbe Nachman, who delivered enlightenment through storytelling. His teachings centered on the search for joy ...

Article: Mixing music and religion: Fred Katz's latest CD evokes 'spirit ...
The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA);  August 3, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... and not especially observant, the Brooklyn native not only reflects back frequently on his childhood in Williamsburg and early Hasidic and Yiddish influences, but also finds himself exploring Jewish sources more frequently and connecting with them significantly ...

Article: On the Hasidic parable
Judaism;  July 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... to change. The parable-form has its roots in oral tradition and folk-literature; the prevalence of parables in many early hasidic homilies is a mark of the oral context of hasidic teaching. In contrast with earlier stages of the Jewish mystic tradition ...

Encyclopedia entry: Providence
A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion;      700+ words ... ... over everything; nothing moves without direct divine control, no stone lies where it does unless God wills it so. The early Hasidic master Phineas of Koretz remarks: ‘A man should believe that even a piece of straw that lies on the ground does ...

Encyclopedia entry: Zohar
A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion;      700+ words ... ... religion. In Hasidism the Zohar became a ‘canonical’ book together with the Bible and the Talmud. The early Hasidic master, Pinhas of Koretz, it is said, used to thank God that he had not been created before the appearance of the Zohar ...