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| ISBN-13: | 9783110407716 |
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| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Publication date: | 04/17/2015 |
| Edition description: | Revised ed. |
| Pages: | 395 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.04(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part 1 Revelation
Chapter 1 The Test of Letter Combinations: The Mystical Initiation Ceremony that Rabbi Nachman Underwent, and its Echoes in Likutei Moharan 7
1 Introduction 7
2 The test of letter combinations as an initiation ceremony 8
3 The messianic aspect 23
4 From a vision to a Torah teaching 25
Chapter 2 "The Story of the Bread": Receiving the Torah 29
1 Introduction 29
2 Published text and manuscript 32
3 "The Story of the Bread": Rabbi Naftali's manuscript and other manuscripts 35
4 The provenance of the story and its chain of transmission 38
5 Regarding the story 39
6 The autobiographical element 48
7 "Like Moses" 52
8 From story to discourse: "Tefillah LeChavakkuk" (Likutei Moharan I 19) 61
9 States of consciousness: sleep, dream, vision, awakening, and wakefulness 73
10 Concealment and its function 79
11 Rabbi Nachman's spiritual level following the revelation 88
Chapter 3 The Stream of Mystical Consciousness: The Character of Mystical Experience and the Way that it is Shaped as Literature in "The Guest Who Came In" 90
1 Circles of dissociation 94
2 The root of the unfamiliar: yearnings for holiness 101
3 The guest's explanation: bringing the mystical element to the forefront 104
4 What was revealed to the householder's soul in flight 114
5 The demonic contingency 120
6 The character of the mystical experience and the way in which it is fashioned 125
7 "The Guest Who Came In": the autobiographical element 127
8 The way of mysticism: from "The Story of the Bread" to "The Guest Who Came In" 131
Part 2 Rectification
Introduction: The Enterprise of Rectifications 139
Chapter 4 The Formulation of the Universal Rectification, the Rectification for a Nocturnal Emission, and the Pilgrimage to Rabbi Nachman's Grave-and their Connection to Bratslavian Messianic Fervor 142
1 Introduction 142
2 The chronology 143
3 The universal rectification 145
4 The rectification for a nocturnal emission 161
5 The universal rectification and the rectification for a nocturnal emission 176
6 The pilgrimage to Rabbi Nachman's grave, and new objectives in reciting the ten psalms 177
7 The connection between the rectifications and messianic fervor 190
Chapter 5 The Booklet of Tests and Rabbi Nachman's Practice of not Avoiding Tests 192
1 "He desired tests" 192
2 Kuntres HaNisyonot: The Booklet of Tests 195
3 The tests 208
4 Rabbi Avraham ben Rabbi Nachman Chazan on the link between Rabbi Nachman's erotic tests and his unique, messianic status 215
Chapter 6 "The Story of the Armor": More from the Bratslav Archives Containing Suppressed Texts 225
1 Introduction 225
2 Manuscripts 230
3 "The Story of the Armor" 230
4 About the story 232
5 On the semantic field: what is the link between the armor and a nocturnal emission? 233
6 The impetus to esotericism 248
7 "The Story of the Armor" and the hypothesized link between the rectification and Sabbatianism 255
Chapter 7 Arrows and Melodies: "The Story of the Beggar without Hands" 257
1 "Un ikh heil zi" ('And I heal her') 257
2 Melodies and arrows: more on the midrashic and kabbalistic underpinning of the rectifications and stories 268
Chapter 8 Uman - "Behold, I Give Over my Soul" 278
1 Uman and the enterprise of the rectifications 278
2 "He requested of the Lord, may He be blessed, that he may the in sanctification of [God's] Name": Rabbi Nachman and dying in sanctification of God's name 280
3 Self-sacrifice via the faculty of thought and imagination 282
4 Sacrifice of one's good name 284
5 The elevation of fallen souls in Uman 289
6 Sanctification of God's name, ten chapters of psalms, the rectification for a nocturnal emission and the rectification performed on pilgrimage to Rabbi Nachman's grave 292
7 The yearning to die in sanctification of God's name as part of Rabbi Nachman's mission in his identification with Messiah son of Joseph 296
8 The dream about Yom Kippur and Rabbi Nachman's self-sacrifice 300
9 Rabbi Nachman's final days 307
Chapter 9 Two Hundred Years Later - from Individual to Universal Rectification: The Pilgrimage to Uman on Rosh Hashanah, the Worldwide Universal Rectification, Tashlikh and Body Jewelry 312
1 Introduction 312
2 The flourishing renaissance of Bratstav Hasidism 313
3 The ten chapters of psalms, from the rectification for a nocturnal emission to the universal rectification-from ritual to amulet 320
4 The pilgrimage to Rabbi Nachman's grave in Uman on Rosh Hashanah 324
5 The rectification and messianism 337
Afterword 339
Appendix
Appendix 1 "The Story of Rabbi Perachia": Additional Links between the Zoharic Literature and "The Guest Who Came In" 347
Appendix 2 Mysticism and the "Stream of Consciousness": A Note Following the Analysis of "The Guest Who Came In" 350
Appendix 3 Photographs of Manuscript Pages 353
Bibliography 361
Name Index 377
Subject Index 381