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The Habad school of hasidism is distinguished today
from other hasidic groups by its famous emphasis on outreach, on messianism, and
on empowering women. Hasidism Beyond Modernity provides a critical,
thematic study of the movement from its beginnings, showing how its unusual qualities
evolved. Topics investigated include the theoretical underpinning of the
outreach ethos; the turn towards women in the twentieth century; new attitudes
to non-Jews; the role of the individual in the hasidic collective; spiritual
contemplation in the context of modernity; the quest for inclusivism in the
face of prevailing schismatic processes;
messianism in both spiritual and political forms; and the direction of the
movement after the passing of its seventh rebbe,
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in 1994. Attention is given to many contrasts:
pre-modern, modern, and postmodern conceptions of Judaism; the clash between maintaining
an enclave and outreach models of Jewish society; particularist and
universalist trends; and the subtle interplay of mystical faith and rationality.
Some of the chapters are new; others, published in an earlier form, have been
updated to take account of recent scholarship. This book presents an in-depth
study of an intriguing movement which takes traditional hasidism beyond
modernity.
Contents
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
