Introduction
Part I. From the Ba’al Shem Tov to Modern Outreach
1. Hippy in the Mikveh: The Hasidic Ethos and the Schisms of Jewish Society
2. The Ba’al Shem Tov’s ‘Sacred Epistle’ and Contemporary Habad Outreach
Part II.
3. The Hasid and the Other
4. Reason and Beyond Reason
5. Finding the Individual
6. Habad Contemplation in Context
7. Women and the Dialectic of Spirituality in Hasidism
8. From ‘Ladies’ Auxiliary’ To ‘Shluchos Network’: Women’s Activism in Twentieth-Century Habad
9. Habad Messianism: A Combination of Opposites
10. ‘From the Source of Raḥamim’: Graveside Prayer in Habad Hasidism
11. Habad, the Rebbe, and the Messiah in the Twenty-First Century
Bibliography
Index
Naftali Loewenthal is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London, and the director of the Chabad Research Unit. He is the author of Communicating the Infinite: The Emergence of the Habad School (1990).
'Chabad has become a global movement, powered by dedicated
emissaries fuelled by a belief in the sacredness of their task and
holy potential of every individual, whether Jew or Gentile. Dr
Loewenthal masterfully links these ideals and the activism they
inspire to their theological roots.'
Dr Harris Bor, The Jewish Chronicle
'Loewenthal has dug deep into the heart of Chabad’s philosophy...
his work is destined to be more than another dusty tome read only
by a select cohort of colleagues in his field. Throughout the book,
he maintains his humanity, a personal voice that compromises
neither his objectivity nor his convictions. The observations of
the scholar are considered side-by-side with the insights of school
girls. There is no more moving testament to the challenge and the
resilience of a postmodern movement; the prior categories exploded,
the either/or thinking rejected, while the nucleus—present since
the inception—is retained.'
Chana Silberstein, Lubavitch Magazine
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