£41.43

Living in the Presence: A Personal Quest for the Baal Shem Tov

Name: Living in the Presence: A Personal Quest for the Baal Shem Tov
Brand: Unknown
Price: 41.1 GBP
Availability: InStock

Europe

Price data last checked 14 day(s) ago - will refresh soon

View at Amazon

Price History & Forecast

Last 77 days • 77 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 77 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £41 (77 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £41 - £41

Price levels: 1 different prices over 77 days

Description

2025 Nautilus Award Winner | Silver | Religion A rabbi’s lifelong journey to discover the source and inspiration of Hasidism. As a student of Abraham Joshua Heschel’s at Jewish Theological Seminary sixty years ago, Burt Jacobson was moved to devote his life to the study of Israel Baal Shem Tov—the founder of Hasidism. Heschel considered the Baal Shem the greatest Jewish teacher and communal leader of the last 1,000 years. Living in the Presence: A Personal Quest for the Baal Shem Tov is a wide-ranging portrait, revealing numerous facets of the Baal Shem Tov’s biography and revolutionary thought previously unknown. Through his knowledge of the world’s wisdom traditions, and personal journey, Rabbi Jacobson is able to place the Baal Shem in the company of the great world spiritual teachers. He reveals the Baal Shem’s vision as an ecstatic mystical encounter that opened to the transcendent unity of existence. It was this that inspired his love and compassion for all creation, especially for the people he met. His disciples testified that their experience of these truths transformed how they understood their own identities as manifestations of the Divine, altered how they lived as spiritual leaders of their communities, and laid the foundations for Hasidism as a movement. Throughout his book Jacobson presents and evaluates insights of historians and scholars, but it is also filled with personal stories about Jacobson’s own struggle with his Jewish identity and his encounter with the Baal Shem as his spiritual teacher. Both a tour de force and a labor of love, this book will quickly become the most essential work on the subject ever published in English.

Product Specifications

Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1958972673
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Historical > Countries & Regions > Europe
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 02 January 2025
Listed Since: 17 January 2024

Barcode

No barcode data available

Living in the Presence: A Personal Quest for the Baal Shem Tov

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Be-Ron Yaḥad: Studies in Jewish Thought and Theology in Honor of Nehemia Polen (Jewish Thought, Jewish History: New Studies)

Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto: His Life and Works

Sefer Chasidim: Book of the Pious with Commentary

Windows on Jewish Worlds: Essays in Honor of William Gross, Collector of Judaica

Defenders of the Faith: Studies in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodoxy and Reform (Touro University Press)

Piety and Rebellion: Essays in Hasidism (New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism)

Midrash Unbound: Transformations and Innovations (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

Scripture as Logos: Rabbi Ishmael and the Origins of Midrash (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)

Jewish Historiography Between Past and Future: 200 Years of Wissenschaft des Judentums: 102 (Studia Judaica, 102)

Young Men in Israeli Haredi Yeshiva Education (Paperback): The Scholars' Enclave in Unrest: 19 (Jewish Identities in a Changing World)

The Believer and the Modern Study of the Bible

Jewish Education and Learning: Published in Honour of Dr. David Patterson on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday: 1 (Routledge Library Editions: Education and Religion)

Judaism’s Challenge: Election, Divine Love, and Human Enmity (Jewish Thought, Jewish History: New Studies Series)

Jewish Secularity: The Search for Roots and the Challenges of Relevant Meaning

The Jews in Poland and Russia: Volume I: 1350 to 1881 (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization): 1

The Poet and the World: Festschrift for Wout van Bekkum on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday: 107 (Studia Judaica, 107)

When Jews Argue: Between the University and the Beit Midrash (Routledge Approaches to History)

The Making of Modern Jewish Identity: Ideological Change and Religious Conversion (Routledge Jewish Studies Series)

Nicht nur die Opfer. Jüdische Geschichten aus Wien Leopoldstadt

Karaite Judaism and Historical Understanding (Studies in Comparative Religion)

Judaism: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation (Investigating Philosophy of Religion)

Jewish Fundamentalism in Comparative Perspective: Religion, Ideology, and the Crisis of Morality: 2

Judaism in the Modern World (B.G. Rudolph Lectures in Judaic Studies)

The Rule of Peshat: Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and Their Christian and Muslim Contexts, 900-1270 (Jewish Culture and Contexts)