Shaul Magid is Elaine Ravitch Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and the coauthor of Reading a Beginning, Beginning a Reading: Toward a Hermeneutic of Jewish Texts.

Introduction and Acknowledgements

Part I
New Studies

Shir Yedidut: A Pleasant Cong of Companionship
Anonymous
translated and annotated by Aubrey Glazer

Chapter 1
Association Midrash: Reflections on a Hermenuetic Theory in Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav's Likkutei MoHaRan
Shaul Magid

Chapter 2
The Master of Prayer: Nahman of Bratslav
David Roskies

Chapter 3
The Cut That Binds: Time , Memory, and the Ascetic Impulse
Elliot R. Wolfson

Chapter 4
Adorning the Souls of the Dead: Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav and Tikkun Neshamot
Yakov Travis

Chapter 5
Nahman of Bratslav: The Zaddik as Androgyne
Nathaniel Deitsch

Chapter 6
Saying Nihilism: A Review of Marc-Alain Ouaknin's The Burnt Book
Martin Kavka

Part II
Old Studies

Chapter 7
Messiah and the Light of the Messiah in Rabbi Nahman's Thought
Hillel Zeitlin
translated by Alyssa Quint

Chapter 8
Rabbi Nahman, Romanticism, and Rationalism
Samuel Abba Horodetzky
translated by Martin Kavka

Chapter 9
Mystical Hasidism and the Hasidism of Faith: A Typological Analysis
Joseph Weiss
translated by Jeremy Kalmonofsky

About the Contributors

Index