Piety and Rebellion examines the span of the Hasidic textual tradition from its earliest phases to the 20th century. The essays collected in this volume focus on the tension between Hasidic fidelity to tradition and its rebellious attempt to push the devotional life beyond the borders of conventional religious practice.

Acknowledgements

Introduction¿My Way to (Neo) ¿asidism

Early ¿asidism

Chapter 1 ¿What happened, happened¿: R. Yäakov Yosef of Polonnoye on ¿asidic Interpretation

Chapter 2 The Case of Jewish Arianism: The Pre-existence of the ¿addik in Early ¿asidism

Chapter 3 The Intolerance of Tolerance: Mäaloket (Controversy) and Redemption in Early ¿asidism

Chapter 4 The Ritual Is Not the Hunt: The Seven Wedding Blessings, Redemption, and Jewish Ritual as Fantasy in R. Shneur Zalman of Liady

Chapter 5 Nature, Exile, and Disability in R. Nahman of Bratslav¿s ¿The Tale of the Seven Beggars¿

Later ¿asidism

Chapter 6 Modernity as Heresy: The Introvertive Piety of Faith in R. Areleh Roth¿s Shomer Emunim

Chapter 7 The Holocaust as Inverted Miracle: R. Shalom Noah Barzofsky of Slonim on the Divine Nature of Radical Evil

Chapter 8 The Divine/Human Messiah and Religious Deviance: Rethinking ¿abad Messianism

Chapter 9 Covenantal Rupture and Broken Faith in R. Kalonymus Kalman Shapiräs Eish Kodesh

Chapter 10 American Jewish Fundamentalism: ¿abad, Satmar, ArtScroll

Shaul Magid is the Jay and Jeanie Schottensten Professor in the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University and Kogod Senior Research Fellow at The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He is a member of the American Academy of Jewish Research. His work spans the areas of Kabbalah, Hasidism, and Modern Jewish Thought and Culture.