Hasidism, suffering, and renewal: the prewar and Holocaust legacy of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira
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adam_text | Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I: Hasidism and Renewal 1 The Place of Piety: Piaseczno in the Landscape of Polish Hasidism Marcin Wodziński 29 2 The Rebbe of Piaseczno: Between Two Trends in Hasidism Moshe Idel 53 3 The Devotional Talmud: Study as a Sacred Quest Ariel Evan Mayse 79 4 Mystical Fraternities: Jerusalem, Tiberius, and Warsaw: A Comparative Study of Goals, Structures, and Methods Zvi Leshem 107 5 Self-Creation through Texts: Kalonymus Kalman Shapiras Incarnational Theology David Maayan 131 6 Hasidism in Dialogue with Modernity: Rabbi Kalonymus Shapiras Derekh ha-Melekh Ora Wiskind 153
viii Contents Part II: Text, Theodicy, and Suffering 7 A New Reading of the Rebbe of Piasecznos Holocaust-Era Sermons: A Review of Daniel Reisers Critical Edition Moria Herman 8 Creative Writing in the Shadow of Death: Psychological and Phenomenological Aspects of Rabbi Shapira’s Manuscript “Sermons from the Years of Rage” Daniel Reiser 179 191 9 Miriam, Moses, and the Divinity of Children: Human Individuation at the Cusp of Persistence and Perishability Nehemia Polen 213 10 Raging against Reason: Overcoming Sekhel in R. Shapira’s Thought James A. Diamond 235 11 At the Edge of Explanation: Rethinking “Afflictions of Love” in Sermons from the Years of Rage Erin Leib Smokier 259 12 “Living with the Times”: Historical Context in the Wartime Writings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira Henry Abramson 281 13 Covenantal Rupture and Broken Faith in Esh Kodesh Shaul Magid 305 14 Pain and Words: On Suffering, Hasidic Modernism, and the Phenomenological Turn Don Seeman 333 Contributors 361 Index 365
Index Abraham. See biblical characters Abramson, Henry, 14, 308-309, 349, 351-352, 355 Absolute, 219, 224-225, 230 Abulafia, Abraham, 9, 56-60 Aesthetic, 11, 335, 341, 346 Affliction, 186-187, 260-261, 272, 274-277, 284, 287, 346-347, 350-351. See also suffering Aggadah, 85-91, 98-99, 105n78, 204. See also halakhah, theology Akiva, 112, 166, 266 Amalek. See biblical characters Anthropology, 13, 202-203, 334. See also ritual Anthropos, 243 Aristotle/Aristotelian, 129n51, 245, 255n31 Atheism, 145-146, 311, 324-325. See also belief Auschwitz. See concentration camps Authenticity, 97, 156-158, 17ІПІ4, 200-201, 231 Author, 137, 149n22, 156, 167-169, 195, 198, 236, 273, 282, 297, 344-345. See also reader Authority, 31-32, 34, 42, 45, 82, 287 Autonomy, 32, 160, 217, 227, 229231, 249-250 Avodah (worship), 5, 132, 218, 230, 337-338, 340, 349 Baal Shem Tov (Besht), 5-6, 54-55, 81, 93, 96, 115, 132, 138, 158, 160-162, 167, 339, 341-342 Beard, 206n4, 283-285, 347-348 Becker, Ernest, 12, 198 Being, 92, 97, 137-140, 145, 147, 157-160, 200, 209n39, 217, 219220, 228-229, 241, 245-246, 251 Belief, 11, 15, 64-66, 241, 250, 273, 305-313, 317, 320-326, 338, 351-355. See also faith Benei mahshava tova, 2, 9, 19n3, 40, 44, 57-59, 107-112, 115-124, 135-136, 153, 307 Berkovits, Eliezer, 310, 312, 327n2 Bialik, Hayyim Nahman, 90 Biblical figures: Aaron, 215-217, 270-271; Abraham, 317; Amalek, 248-249, 257n59, 258n69; Balaam, 236-237, 253n5; David, 267-269, 279n30; Haman, 288; Isaac, 259, 348; Jacob, 131-135, 156-159, 173n32, 227, 348; Joseph, 134-135, 227; Miriam, 7, 215-219, 225-227, 229-230,
353-354; Moses, 159, 215-218, 225-230, 242, 261-266, 365
366 Index Biblical figures (continued) 269-272, 297, 349-350, 352, 354; Noah, 305 Biblical prophets: Hosea, 266; Isaiah, 284, 316; Jeremiah, 19, 332n64; Micah, 216. See also Prophecy/ Prophetic Renewal Binah. See sefirot Blessing, 55-56, 203-204, 218, 227, 263, 343, 354 Body/Embodiment, 10-11, 84, 90-93, 96, 109-110, 131-137, 141-143, 146-147, 149Ո26, 157, 164-168, 221, 228-229, 240, 244, 247, 251, 338-339, 343-344, 358n51 Boethius, 199, 208n23 Bones, 165-167, 169, 274 Book, 167-169, 174n43, 210n61, 337, 344-345 Brill, Alan, 69nl0, 164 Brown, Benjamin, 20nl0, 169n4 Buber, Martin, 18, 21nl5, 64, 164, 169n2, 174n33, 336. See also Neo-Hasidism Buddhism, 17, 19, 60, 66, 73n59, 75n82, 150n36, 336 Caleb, 288-289 Carlebach, Shlomo, 16-18, 64, 67, 311, 314, 325-326 Charlap, Yaakov Moshe, 313 Children, 7, 83, 186-187, 213, 221228, 325-326, 339-342, 353-354 Christianity, 20nl3, 31, 36, 67, 75n83, 147nl Commandment (mitsvah), 60, 88-90, 92-93, 103n37, 110, 133-134, 147, 152n64, 157, 217, 227, 242, 249-250, 341, 346 Communication, 4, 118, 154, 157158, 159 Compassion, 133, 140-141, 152n65, 219-220, 223-228, 270-271, 293-294 Concentration camps: Auschwitz, 17, 199, 312, 325-326; Chełmno, 14, 291, 298; Treblinka, 8, 268-269, 273, 292, 296; Trawniki, 2, 123, 130ո57, 314 Contemplation: contemplative practice, 4, 9, 16-17, 65, 80, 91-92, 135-140, 161, 168, 250-251, 333-337; meditation, 17, 66, 83, 107, 112-113, 122; visualization techniques, 9, 57-60, 336, 337, 345, 348 Consciousness: consciousness of the Hasid, 342; corporeality and, 151n47, 343; extinction of reflective, 246; future-
oriented, 167; heightened, 107, 109, 252; historical, 153, 184; permeation of one’s, 157, 161, 164, 173n25; self creation and, 138, 142-145. See also subjectivity Corporeality/Physicality, 10-11, 57, 83, 85, 91, 96, 111, 113, 118, 129n50, 132-136, 141, 146, 149n26, 15ІП47, 160-161, 166-168, 192, 198, 199, 221, 223-224, 240-241, 250, 264, 273, 274, 276, 285, 337-339, 341-345, 350 Cosmos, 65, 93, 97, 203-205, 223-224, 228, 298 Cosmogony, 228 Cosmology, 203, 338-339, 352 Covenant, 14-15, 115, 307, 309-314, 316-327, 350-351 Creativity, 61, 63, 79, 80, 88, 89, 94-95, ІОЗпЗЗ, 138-140, 152n64, 154, 186, 198, 202, 205, 208v26, 214, 228, 230, 336. See also exegesis
Index Crisis, 14, 18-19, 37, 41, 43-45, 50ո52, 87, 119-120, 164, 169ոՅ, 203, 213, 215-216, 234ո22, 258ո62, 273, 314, 320-321, 326, 338, 340, 341, 347, 350, 351, 353 Critical Edition, 3, 12, 53, 179-189, 194-198, 213, 291, 333-335 Culture, 23ո48, 31, 63, 83, 155-156, 175ո44, 198, 201, 208Ո26, 227, 248, 295 Daat, 85, 140, 143-146, 157, 237, 242-243, 250. See also sefirot Death, 2, 7, 8, 9, 12, 45, 123, 137, 138, 149n26, 155, 165-166, 185-186, 191, 192, 196, 198-205, 209n39, 214, 215-216, 216, 219, 225, 227-231, 235, 238, 243, 251, 260, 285, ЗОЗпЗІ, 306, 319, 323, 330n38, 347, 353, 354 Deportations, 2, 8, 242, 268-269, 273, 353. See also Great Action/ Deportation Derekh ha-melekh, 2, 91, ЮЗпЗО, 104n53, 153-156, 188, 239 Despair, 14, 186, 200-201, 207n6, 266, 269-270, 288, 293, 297, 308, 326, 348. See also belief, faith, suffering Devekut (attachment), 5, 81, 116-119, 131, 148n8, 170nl0, 324 Devotion, 5-6, 10, 17, 55, 79-83, 87, 89-98, 132-133, 140, 230, 264, 266, 275, 340-343, 349-351 Diamond, James A., 13, 308 Disease/Illness, 8, 277, 288, 338 Dislocation, 4, 7, 34-35, 41, 61, 75n83, 155 Doctrine, 11-13, 29, 188, 202, 210n49, 224, 274-275, 334, 353-354 367 Drink, 5, 111, 125nl3. See also corporeality Economy, 30, 35, 41, 43, 47nl0, 55, 120-122, 129n50, 169n3, 346 Ecstasy, 5, 9, 54-59, 66, 68n6, 87-88, 122, 128n41, 336 Education/Pedagogy: Hasidism and, 42, 44-45, 82, 89; Shapira’s tracts on, 2, 9-10, 15, 44, 54, 112, 153, 201, 296, 307, 340, 345-346; Shapira’s orientation towards, 7, 44, 82-83, 93, 109, 121, 154-155, 249-250, 333, 336-337, 340-345 Egalitarianism, 46nl, 110,
113, 116-118 Egypt, 114-115, 243, 267-272, 281-284, 293-294, 350 Elimelekh of Grodzisk. See Shapira/ Shapiro family Elimelekh of Lizensk, 6, 55, 166, 170n8, 17ІПІ2, 337 Elimelekh Shapira (nephew), 180. See also Shapira/Shapiro family Emotion/Affect: vital flow and, 10, 15, 346, 350; study and, 81-98, 339, 345; knowledge and, 157, 268, 205, 109, 158-165, 225, 231, 334, 338 Engenderment, 17ІПІ5, 228-230 Epicurus, 305 Epstein, Kalonymus, 55, 103n41, 108 Esh Kodesh. See Sermons from the Years of Rage Esoteric, 82, 84-85, 94, 163-164, 246, 338 Ethnographic/Ethnography, 17, 345, 355n6, 356nl3, 360n84. See also anthropology Evil, 117, 154, 219, 231, 236-238, 248, 258Ո64, 283, 285, 305, 308-310, 319, 321-322, 326, 327
368 Index Exegesis, 79-80, 84, 87-91, 94-95, 98-99, ІОЗпЗЗ, 204, 214, 217, 231. See also creativity, study Exile, 122, 161-163, 166, 239, 243, 350 Existentialism, 3, 11, 89, 108, 145146, 149n24, 160, 200-201, 250, 259, 321, 341, 352-353 Experience: affect and, 15; embodied and lived, 93, 131, 147, 151, 257n59, 268-273, 338-339, 346; of faith and doubt, 200-203, 305-301, 316, 324, 335; Hasidism and, 155-160; mystical or religious, 5, 9, 57-59, 109, 122-124; prophetic, 58-59, 122-124, 168, 338, 346; self-creation and, 137; Shapira’s personal, 53, 155, 166, 185-188, 237, 272-273, 283-285; study and, 80, 83-90, 98; suffering and, 240, 243, 252, 295, 346, 348, 349, 351, 354 Explanation: the absence of, 204, 231, 260-261, 263, 267, 275-277 Expulsion, 35, 154, 249 Face, 151n47, 161-162, 221, 225, 228-230, 259, 327n2, 343 Facsimile, 181, 291 Faith (emunah): acts of, 123; crisis and loss of, 14-15, 19, 154-155, 164, 192, 297, 307-311, 316, 338, 351; defining, 11; faith beyond intellect, reason and, 168, 200-201, 246, 248-250, 289, 351; simple, 250-251; strengthening of 267, 273, 288-289, 294, 298, 333 Feeling (hargashah), 10, 86-87, 96, 133, 141-145, 175n43, 204, 243, 346, 348. See also Emotion/Affect Final Solution, 292, 298 Flesh, 110, 139, 263, 339, 343. See also corporeality France, 288 Frankl, Viktor, 199, 208n25 Fraternity (Mystical Fraternity), 2, 9-Ю, 40, 43-45, 107-124 Free Will, 109, 340-341, 351, 358n39 Friendship (haverini), 113, 116-118 Funkenstein, Amos, 309-310, 312 Garb, Jonathan, 68n5 Gassing as murder, 237, 291, 296 Geertz, Clifford, 203-204, 334 Gender, 12, 232n8.
See also women Genocide, 3, 8, 12, 14, 61, 302nl9, 355 Gentiles/non-Jews, 48n28, 65-67, 121, 188, 257n60 Germans, 8, 191-192, 248-249, 284, 288-289, 291, 300, 323 Germany, 248-249, 258n62, 288-289 Ghetto: Lodz, 269; Warsaw, 8-11, 98, 153, 180, 184, 203-204, 231, 237, 241, 260, 268-269, 279n30, 292, 300, 315, 323, 333-335; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 8 Golem, 65, 149n24, 158-159, 171Ш5 Great Action/Deportation, 204, 231, 277, 292-298, 307-313, 320, 331n49. See also deportations Greenberg, Yitz, 310, 312 Green, Arthur, 64, 174n33, 257n50 Grodzisk (Mazowiecki), 22ո27. See also Shapira/Shapiro family Guide of the Perplexed, 232n8, 239, 245, 251, 253n8, 255n37 Guilt, 198, 204 Halakhah, 8, 81-82, 85-90, 91-92, 99, 104n58, 105n78, 203, 206n2, 341, 343. See ako commandment
Index Hakhsharat ha-avreihim, 2, 112, 181, 299, ЗОЗпЗІ, 307, 346 Handwriting. See writing Hannukah; 1941 sermon for, 317-319, 350; annotation to 1941 sermon for, 238, 294-296, 315, 317-322, 351 Hasid; definition, 160, 172nl8, 341, 339; tsaddik and, 36, 39, 164, 342-343; Yosl Rakovers identity as, 323-324 Hasidic Modernism, 9, 19, 150n36, 335-336 Hasidism: “à la carte” Hasidism, 4, 9, 36, 41-43, 337; Belz, 15, 62; Bratslav, 7, 16, 55, 62, 117, 120, 124n3, 172nl8, 258n71, 328n7, 335; Chabad/Lubavitch (or Habad), 9, 11, 15-16, 62-63, 104Ո57, 141-142, 173n26, 173n31, 174n39, 224, 244-245, 254n26, 255n32, 255n38, 300, 313; Ger, 15, 33, 38-39, 42-44, 51n58, 61-63, 80, 82, 323; Golden age of, 7, 43; Izbits, 9, 16, 55, 124n3, 149n24, 335; Karlin-Stolin, 108, 114-119; Komárno, 115, 150n30; Kotsk (Kock), 9, 38, 55, 79, 82, 103n37, 149n24, 335; magical and spiritual, 44, 54-56, 58-65, 67, 168, 335-336; Satmar, 15, 62-63, 75n83, 313; Toledot Aharon, 63; Vizhnits, 15, 62 Healing/Medicine, 8, 14, 54, 179, 192, 294, 334, 336, 340, 345, 355 Heaven/Heavens: emptiness of the child’s, 324; initiative from, 217, 227; storming, 271-273; tsaddik connecting earth and, 55, 167 Hebrew, 53, 64,113,153,191,195, 245, 265, 282, 296, 299, 341-342, 345 Heidegger, Martin, 200, 208n27, 209n39, 248 369 Heresy, 186, 306, 312, 330n38 Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 4, 64, 69n6, 73n63, 164, 336, 357Ո35 Hinduism, 66-67, 336 History: of ideas, 3; God of, 350-351; Jewish, 238, 265, 283, 295, 320-322, 327; social, 3, 108 Holiness/Sanctity, 94-96, 109-110, 120, 132-136, 146-147, 150n35, 157-168, 217, 221-230, 252, 343-349
Holocaust: as novum, 238, 253nl4, 296, 298, 313, 318-322; theology and, 14, 310-314, 321-323, 327, 333, 349-352 Holy Hunchback, 16-17, 311, 314, 323, 325-326 Homily/Homiletics, 12-13, 88, 97-99, 153, 155, 175n44, 204, 213-214, 239, 268-269, 272-273 Hope, 160, 186, 192, 200, 205, 207n6, 230-231, 239, 266-273, 285, 298, 308, 325, 347 Hovat ha-talmidim, 2, 79, ЮЗпЗО, 120, 297, 337, 340, 359n61 Huberband, Shimon (Szymon), 184, 283, 288 Idei, Moshe, 9, 13, 17, 168, 335-336 Image, 161-164, 276 Imagination, 36, 58, 108, 164, 238, 335-336 Imitatio Dei, 133, 255n37 Immanence, 5, 11, 93, 110, 131, 162, 230-231, 241, 251, 254n23 Incarnation, 10-11, 110, 131, 134, 136-137, 147nl Individuality/Individualism, 4, 10, 36, 80, 108-109, 128n41, 131, 136-139, 142, 145-146, 152n64, 157-160, 200, 222-225, 227-230, 336-341
370 Index Individuation, 142, 200, 219-221, 229 Influx, 57, 59-60, 349, 353-354 Intention (kavvanah), 5, 109-110, 113, 117, 120-121, 132, 134-136, 264, 344 Intellect: body and, 244,251; integration of emotion and, 86-92, 141; transcendence of, 88, 239, 244, 246247, 249-250, 252, 338-342, 351 Interpretation, 79-80, 88-89, 95-98, 135, 138-139, 143-145, 157, 218, 230, 242-243, 339-341. See also creativity; exegesis Israel, land of, 1, 8, 15-16, 62, 85, 87, 112, 120, 180, 181, 211n65, 290, 297, 299, 323 Israelite: Shapira’s use of term, 233nl3 Jewish Historical Institute, 180 Joy, 5, 111, 113, 141, 230, 266-268, 272-273, 337, 353 Judgment (din): 86, 98, 120, hasid and, 160-161, 341-342; attribute of, 219-221, 341-342 Kabbalah: contemporary interest in, 65-67; Cordovero and, 54, 56-57; ecstatic, 9, 56-59, 336; Hasidism and, 10, 54, 67, 76n86, 81, 96; Lurianic, 5, 67, 97, 112, 219, 237; Shapira on, 82, 85-90, 91-97, 111, 135-136, 160, 338-342; Zeitlin and, 119-121. See also Zohar Kavvanah. See intention Kedushat Levi. See Levi Yitzhak of Bardishev Kleinman, Arthur and Joan, 355n2, 355n6 Kook, Abraham Isaac, 16-17, 60, 90, 127ՈՅՅ, 258n71, 357n23, 358n39 Kook, Zvi Yehudah, 313, 319, 331n40 Language, 10, 13, 64, 82, 93, 158, 262, 263, 264, 266, 342-346, 346-355 Laitman, Michael, 65 Leadership: crisis and, 213, 285, 300; models of hasidic, 6, 21n20, 34, 39-45, 55-56, 63, 168; Shapira on, 225-230 Leib-Smokler, Erin, 13, 19, 244, 346 Leshem, Zvi, 9-10, 43, 135 Levi, Primo, 306 Levi Yitzhak of Barditshev, 144-145, 267-269 Levinas, Emmanuel, 203, 323-325 Liebes, Yehuda, 112, 199 Light:
divine vitality and, 341-345, 353-354; drawing down of, 59-60, 92, 167; receptivity to, 162, 226; revelation of, 93, 132, 163-164; texts and, 103n37, 167-168; tsaddik and, 165-168 Limbs, 84, 110, 167, 251, 344 Literature: exegetical, 12; general, 3, 119, 340, 345; Hasidic, 148n8, 258n71, 342, 349; kabbalistic, 83, 93, 112, 222, 258n71, 339; merkavah, 112; rabbinic, 81-82, 85, 90, 93-97, 143, 194, 237-238, 257n60, 277n3; Russian, 209n32 Lithuania, 16, 61, 80-81, 89-92, 313, 323 Lodz, 83 Longing, 84, 96-98, 209n39, 335, 342, 349-350, 354 Love: afflictions/chastenings of love, 13, 244, 260-261, 274-277, 346; for others, 110-113, 117-118, 141-142, 171nll, 276-277; of and for God, 311, 317-318, 323-325, 350; suffering and, 267-268, 272; “Three Loves” of the Besht, 129n50
Index Luna, Yitzhak and Lurianic Kabbalah, 5, 67, 81, 97, 108, 112-114, 117, 17ІПІ5, 174n39 Luzzatto, Moshe Hayyim, 108, 112 Maayan, David, 10-11, 170nl0, 175n45 Magid, Shaul, 14-15, 75n85, 349-355 Maggid: of Mezritsh, 6, 9, 55, 115-117, 149n24, 158, 163, 17ІПІ5, 172n24, 335; of Kozhnits, 55, 82, 166, 174n36, 337; of Zlotshev, 81 Manuscripts: Shapira’s, 1-3, 153, 169, 180-187, 193-202, 204-205, 213215, 232nl2, 291-292, 296-299, ЗОЗпЗІ, 306, 315-316; various, 57, 114 Мя’ог va-shemesh, 103n41, 108, 174n36 Martyr/Martyrdom, 108,119, 123-124, 210n45, 236, 262-266, 275-277, 300, 322 Mayse, Ariel Evan, 10, 17, 20nll, 131, 204, 210Ո56, 339 Media/Mediation, 10-11, 23n48, 42, 44-45, 164, 17ІПІ5, 279n30, 334-335 Meaninglessness, 155, 186, 200-203, 312 Meditation. See contemplation Mercy (rahamim), 1, 110, 118, 165, 179, 208nl2, 219-221, 227-228, 268, 271, 273, 276, 293-294, 295, 298, 299, 309, 318, 319, 323 Messianism, 122, 129n54 Metaphor, 158, 163 Mevo he-she’arim, 2, 112, 175n45, 181, 296-297, 299, ЗОЗпЗІ Midrash, 19; Shapira on, 84-90, 98-99, 134-135, 204, 238-242, 295, 318; Shapira’s use of, 98-99, 134- 371 135, 143-146, 159, 165, 180, 204, 227-228, 238, 240-242, 247-248. See also Talmud; study Migration, 7, 155 Mindfulness, 11, 17, 150n36, 160 Miracle, 44, 266-268, 352 Mishnah, 86-87, 99, 110. See also Talmud; study Mitsvah. See commandment Modernization, 6, 19, 36, 73n64, 336-340 Morality, 36, 85, 162, 249, 334-335, 341, 346 Moria, Herman, 12 Mourning, 153, 243 Moses. See biblical characters Murder, 1, 14, 33, 119, 123, 184, 187, 53, 61, 207n4, 221-222, 238, 249, 273, 291,
295, 297-298, 319. See also Final Solution, Genocide Music, 13, 36, 67, 112, 125nl3 Mussar, 80, 119 Mysticism, 20nl0, 64-66, 112, 154, 203-204, 224-225, 241, 244-245, 345 Nahmanides, 136, 281, 286, ЗОІпб, 302nl4, 340 Nazi, 4, 14, 61, 191, 206n2, 207n4, 208n27, 248, 265, 272, 275, 283-285 Negation, 201, 224, 228. See also self Neo-Hasidism, 3, 15-19, 45, 54, 63-67, 154, 169n2, 333, 336. See also Buber, Martin; Zeitlin, Hillel Nerves/Nervous Disorder, 4, 9, 338 Neusner, Jacob, 309, 311-312, 318-319 Newspaper, 23n41, 74n76, 122, 181, 323 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 201
372 Index Oneg Shabbat archive, 175n47, 184, 292, 298, ЗОЗпЗІ Palestine. See Israel Pain. See suffering Pantheism, 5, 113, 241, 244-245 Paragraphing, 12, 214-215, 315 Parashiyot (Torah Portions): Ekev, 292, 295, 298; Hazon, 292; Hukkat, 186, 214-231; Metsora, 286; Mishpatim, 188, 206n3, 292; Naso, 188; Shelah, 288; Shemot, 167; Toledot, 284, 347; Vayyeshev, 131; Yitro, 182-183, 242; Zakhor, 291 Pedagogy. See education Phenomenology, 3, 9, 12-15, 67, 80, 119, 147, 153-154, 192, 202-205, 315, 335-346, 348, 351-354 Philology, 67, 194-198 Philosophy/Philosophical, 12-13, 60, 64, 119-123, 144-145, 186-188, 198-202, 237-258 Piasezcno (town), 2, 7, 30-34, 40, 45, 51n66, 115, 296 Piekarz, Mendel, 191, 333, 334 Piety, 7, 82, 84, 89, 91, 242, 340 Poland, Interbellum, 1-4, 41-43, 80-82, 89, 119, 347-348 Polen, Nehemia, 12-13, 17, 102n30, 123-124, 308-309, ՅՅՕոՅՕ Postmodernism, 16, 283, 300-301 Prayer, 5, 9, 31, 36-41, 56-57, 61, 66, 81, 94-95, 97, 109, 113, 117, 120֊ 121, 138, 155, 179, 223, 239-240, 253-254, 272-273, 275, 284, 287, 290, 293, 309, 317, 325, 347, 350 Progeny. See children Proofing, 181, 184-185, 194-196, 204-205 Prophecy/Prophetic Renewal, 4-7, 57-59, 68-76, 88-89, 107, 112, 167-170, 296, 333-338, 344-352 Psalms; interpretation of passages from, 265, 268, 270, 276; recitation of, 293 Psychology/Psychological; 9-11, 123, 153-154, 158, 185-186, 198-205, 336-339 Purification/Purity, 99-100, 122, 260, 265, 274, 277 Rackover, Yosl, 309, 311, 323-325, 326 Rage (za’am), 235-237, 251 Rashi, 19, 134, 139, 143-145, 166, 216, 219, 262, 267, 270-271, 286 Reader, 87-89, 97, 137,
147, 167-169, 193-195. See also author Reason/Rationality; Hasidim and, 12, 244; Shapira’s relation to, 147, 161, 235-248, 249-253; faith beyond, 289, 350; critique of Western, 200, 248-249 Reciprocity, 167, 240, 346-350 Reformation/Counter- Reformation, 19, 42-45, 51n56 Reiser, Daniel, 2-4, 12, 58, 170n9, 179-189, 214-215, 231, 291, 296-297, 306-332, 333-336, 348 Responsa, 206n2 Revelation; divine, 84, 87, 92, 136; interdependence of divine and human, 136-139; Heschel on, 164, 357Ո34; ongoing, 164, 167, 222-223, 353-354; of the soul/self, 111, 150n36, 157; through text, 93, 344-345 Ringelblum archives, 1, 231, 237, 282, 298, 335. See also Oneg Shabbat archive Ritual: ritual efficacy, 6, 11-15, 203-204, 333-335, 338, 345, 353; ritual in its own right, 203-205 Rosenzweig, Franz, 12, 191, 200, 235 Rosh Hashanah (New Year), 31-32, 97, 119, 140-146, 261
Index Rupture, 3, 11, 13-14, 19, 198, 238, 244, 312-313, 320-321, 327, 327ո2, 348 Russia, 6, 41, 82, 114, 119 Sabbath, 36, 63, 66, 136, 153, 179, 192, 206n3, 242, 255n29, 284 Sabbateanism, 67 Sacrifice, 240, 263-266, 317, 320, 350 Sadness, 98, 272-273 Safed, 56, 85, 108, 114-115, 124 Salvation: advocacy of irrational faith in, 237, 289, 316-317, 350; coping with lack of apparent, 273-274, 289, 293-294; divine initiative and, 294, 347-348; human activity and, 83, 211n65, 266, 334; possible, 232, 311, 318. See also belief, faith Sartre, Jean-Paul, 145-146 Scholem, Gershom, 10, 15, 59, 102nl9, 114, 219, 238, 254n23, 339 Schweid, Eliezer, 307-309, 316, 322, 333 Secret: Torah and, 85, 94, 111, fraternities, 44, 107, sharing of ones, 111, 119 Secularization, 6, 32, 80, 89, 121 Seeman, Don, 9, 13, 15, 105n79, 139, 150n36, 202-204, 329nl7 Seer of Lublin, 47nll, 55, 174n36, 305, 307 Sefirot, 17ІПІ5, 219-221, 228, 246-247 Self: self-creation, 138-139, 142-146; self-knowledge, 140, 156-157, 242, 339; self-nullification (bittul), 10-11, 57, 131, 136, 149n24, 158, 170nl0, 246; self-recognition, 95, 139-141, 145-146, 284, 347-348; self-referential, 168, 230, 234n22; self-sacrifice (mesirat or mesirut nefesh), 240, 317-320, 350 373 Sermons from the Years of Rage (Esh Kodesh): 8, 12-19, 153, 193-202, 236, 259, 268, 274, 281-291, 301, 307, ՅՅՕոՅՕ; critical edition of, 3-4, 12, 53, 180, 188-189, 194-198, 213, 236, 291, 314-315, 331n52, 333, 359n68 Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman, 16-17, 24n57, 64, 66, 75n82 Shneur Zalman of Liady, 55, 92, 104n57, 141-142, 173n25, 173n31, 244-246, 255n36, 256n49,
300, 335. See also Tanya Shapira/Shapiro family: Elimelekh of Grodzisk (father), 7, 22n28, 22n29, 33, 56, 170n8, 174n36, 174n43, 286, 296; Elimelekh (son), 8, 230, 234n22, 285, ЗОЗпЗІ; Rahel Hayyah Miriam (wife), 7-8, 22n30, 230, 234n22; Rekhell Yehudis (daughter), 230, 234n22; Yeshaya (brother), 8, 15, 297, 299, 328n9 Shekhinah, 113, 221, 228, 230, 251 Shestov, Lev, 200-201, 209n32, 209n37, 209n41 Shi’ur Komah, 167, 344 Shtibl/Shtiblekh, 9, 36-42, 66, 155 Silence, 159, 263-266, 269-270, 322, 327 Sin, 113, 138, 162, 218-219, 221, 225-229, 259-260, 265, 274, 298, 346, 351, 354 Slavery/Slave, 261-262, 265, 267, 269, 272, 279Ո35, 292 Socrates, 12, 198-199 Sonderkommando, 292 Song, 67, 111, 266-272, 278nl5 Sorrow, 194, 196, 231, 238, 276. See also sadness, suffering Soul: animal, 111; body and, 84, 131, 141-142, 146-147, 165, 192, 244, 339, 343, 348; God and, 223, 250,
374 Index Soul (continued) 263-264; levels and states of, 155, 339; perception and, 162, 223, 342, 352; revelation of, 94-97, 105n79, 111, 139-140, 150Ո36, 173n27, 345; soul of tsaddik, 165-167; study and, 83, 85-100; writing and, 137, 208nl9, 210n61, 344 Soviet Union, 288 Speech; thought, deeds and, 91, 109-110, silence and, 159; public, 129n53, 169n4; letters of divine, 341 Spies, 288-289, 349 Spirit, Holy, 86-88, 96 Spirituality, 61-67, 84, 90, 146, 155, 168, 217, 224, 227, 335-338, 343 Study. See Torah Subject: intersubjectivity, 345, 348-349; subjectivity, 3, 10-11, 14, 334, 336, 338-349, 352-355 Suffering: afflictions of love (yissurim shel ahavah), 13, 260-268, 272-277; pain and, 121-122, 141, 192, 198, 204, 225, 229-231, 238, 244, 251, 260-261, 264-271, 274-277, 316, 335, 346, 355; for the Other, 203-205 Suicide, 17, 154, 169n3 Sukkot, 8, 275 Talmud (Gemara): cited by Shapira, 166, 216-218, 236, 264-265, 268, 271, 284; devotion and, 79-98; Gemara of Tannaim and Amoraim, 86-87; in curriculum, 16, 82-83, 110, 339, 347; transformative study and, 99-100; Zohar and, 88 Tanya, 92, 120, 173n25, 300. See also Shneur Zalman of Liady Temporal or temporality. See time Testimony, 14, 41, 54-55, 107, 113, 115, 123, 196, 202, 205, 205Ш, 283, 292, 306, 314-315 Textual practice and textuality, 11-14, 203, 334, 341, 345 Theodicy, 13, 231, 259-261, 275, 281, 310-313, 318-323, 325, 329n22, 331n49, 351. See also suffering Theology: anthropocentric, 263, 271; consistency of Shapira’s theology, 247-249, 315; covenantal, 309, 320-326, 350; Hasidic, 83, 217, 230, 235, 246; incarnational,
10, 131; Jewish, 3; law and, 89; post-Holocaust, 14, 19, 310-314, 321-327, 349-352; rabbinic, 221; theology of Maimonides, 244-245; theology of personalism, 230; Torah and, 157 Theurgy, 170n9, 208nl2, 349 Tiberius, 9-10, 108, 114-119, 124 Time, 13, 99, 204, 220, 227, 230, 349 Torah: Study of, 79-106, 110-122; Letters of, 132, 134-136; selfrevelation and, 136-139, 157; scroll, 137 Tradition: alienation from, 89; aura of, 34, 36; belief and, 250; challenge to, 308, 313, 320-321, 326; fidelity to, 308; hasidic, 164, 239, 339; hasidic tradition and renewal, 164, 175n46; Jewish literary, 13, 281-282; kabbalistic, 243; language of, 13, 80, 236; philosophical, 245; rabbinic, 215, 249; return to, 297; tradition of mystical fraternities, 112, 115, 119, 121; wisdom and, 247-248 Transcendence, 134-135, 163, 231, 242, 247 Trauma, 154, 296. See also suffering
375 Index Truth, 11, 15, 200, 230, 243-245, 283, 287, 300-301, 326, 349-350 Tsmtsum, 160, 241, 254ո23, 345 Tsaddik, 6, 9-10, 33-45, 54-56, 64, 66, 116-118, 15ІП40, 155, 164-168, 217, 223-224, 271-272, 335-337, 342-344, 354 Tsav ve-zeruz, 2, 105ո67, 137, 154, 210ո61, 299, ЗОЗпЗІ, 340 Ukraine, 5, 62 Ultra-Orthodoxy, 2, 16, 313-314, 322 Veil, 162, 271-273, 311 Vessels, 87, 135, 158, 162 Visualization. See contemplation Vital, Hayyim, 56-60, 81, 113-114, 267, 339 Vitality/Vital Flow, 5-6, 10-11, 15, 60, 91, 105Ո79, 133, 168, 196, 203, 219, 334, 338-339, 341, 344-346, 349-352, 354-355 War: devastation and, 30, 154, 192; World War I, 4, 7, 33-37, 41-43, 154, 200, 235, 290-291; World War II, 15, 120, 239 Weber, Max, 10, 65, 202 Weeping/Tears, 5, 154, 179, 185, 196, 266, 278nl5, 298, 346. See also suffering Weil, Simone, 324 Wiesel, Elie, 64, 305, 307, 324 Wiskind, Ora, 10-11, 13, 17, 44, 139, 354-355 Wodziński, Marcin, 4, 9, 17, 155, 337 Wolfson, Eliot R., 23ո46, 72ո49, 147ПІ, 173ո31, 209ո32, 210ո56, 255ո27, 255ո32, 357ո32, 358ո51 Women, 7, 62, 170ո5, 217-218, 223-230 Writing: self and, 137-139, 158; Shapira’s reflections on, 167-168, 185; death and, 192, 196, 198-199, 203-205; writing as mystical ritual, 211n65; handwriting, 1-3, 180-181, 188-189, 194, 197, 282 Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayyim, 309, 312, 314 Yeshiva: Bet El, 107, 112-115, 117-119, 124; Da’at Moshe, 7, 42, 44-45, 50n50, 82-83, 102n25, 326; Shapira’s teachings in the Zionist yeshiva, 16-17 Yiddish, 2, 16, 53, 64, ЮЗпЗО, 153, 17ІПІ5, 191, 282, 299, 323, 325 Yom Kippur, 2, 160-163, 251, 288 Zeitlin, Hillel, 60, 64, 74ո76,
104ո57, 108, 119-123, 169ո2, 201, 336. See also Neo-Hasidism Zionism, 7, 16, 313, 330ո38 Žohar: cited by Shapira, 218, 352; ideas rooted in, 244, 246, 257n51; mystical fraternities and, 108-109, 112, 115, 117; revelation and, 167; Shapira’s commentary on, 85, 210n47; Shapira on exegesis in, 88-89; study of, 88-89, 97, 117, 119-121; view of evil in, 237; Tikkunei Zohar, 161-163 Ґ Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München N
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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I: Hasidism and Renewal 1 The Place of Piety: Piaseczno in the Landscape of Polish Hasidism Marcin Wodziński 29 2 The Rebbe of Piaseczno: Between Two Trends in Hasidism Moshe Idel 53 3 The Devotional Talmud: Study as a Sacred Quest Ariel Evan Mayse 79 4 Mystical Fraternities: Jerusalem, Tiberius, and Warsaw: A Comparative Study of Goals, Structures, and Methods Zvi Leshem 107 5 Self-Creation through Texts: Kalonymus Kalman Shapiras Incarnational Theology David Maayan 131 6 Hasidism in Dialogue with Modernity: Rabbi Kalonymus Shapiras Derekh ha-Melekh Ora Wiskind 153
viii Contents Part II: Text, Theodicy, and Suffering 7 A New Reading of the Rebbe of Piasecznos Holocaust-Era Sermons: A Review of Daniel Reisers Critical Edition Moria Herman 8 Creative Writing in the Shadow of Death: Psychological and Phenomenological Aspects of Rabbi Shapira’s Manuscript “Sermons from the Years of Rage” Daniel Reiser 179 191 9 Miriam, Moses, and the Divinity of Children: Human Individuation at the Cusp of Persistence and Perishability Nehemia Polen 213 10 Raging against Reason: Overcoming Sekhel in R. Shapira’s Thought James A. Diamond 235 11 At the Edge of Explanation: Rethinking “Afflictions of Love” in Sermons from the Years of Rage Erin Leib Smokier 259 12 “Living with the Times”: Historical Context in the Wartime Writings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira Henry Abramson 281 13 Covenantal Rupture and Broken Faith in Esh Kodesh Shaul Magid 305 14 Pain and Words: On Suffering, Hasidic Modernism, and the Phenomenological Turn Don Seeman 333 Contributors 361 Index 365
Index Abraham. See biblical characters Abramson, Henry, 14, 308-309, 349, 351-352, 355 Absolute, 219, 224-225, 230 Abulafia, Abraham, 9, 56-60 Aesthetic, 11, 335, 341, 346 Affliction, 186-187, 260-261, 272, 274-277, 284, 287, 346-347, 350-351. See also suffering Aggadah, 85-91, 98-99, 105n78, 204. See also halakhah, theology Akiva, 112, 166, 266 Amalek. See biblical characters Anthropology, 13, 202-203, 334. See also ritual Anthropos, 243 Aristotle/Aristotelian, 129n51, 245, 255n31 Atheism, 145-146, 311, 324-325. See also belief Auschwitz. See concentration camps Authenticity, 97, 156-158, 17ІПІ4, 200-201, 231 Author, 137, 149n22, 156, 167-169, 195, 198, 236, 273, 282, 297, 344-345. See also reader Authority, 31-32, 34, 42, 45, 82, 287 Autonomy, 32, 160, 217, 227, 229231, 249-250 Avodah (worship), 5, 132, 218, 230, 337-338, 340, 349 Baal Shem Tov (Besht), 5-6, 54-55, 81, 93, 96, 115, 132, 138, 158, 160-162, 167, 339, 341-342 Beard, 206n4, 283-285, 347-348 Becker, Ernest, 12, 198 Being, 92, 97, 137-140, 145, 147, 157-160, 200, 209n39, 217, 219220, 228-229, 241, 245-246, 251 Belief, 11, 15, 64-66, 241, 250, 273, 305-313, 317, 320-326, 338, 351-355. See also faith Benei mahshava tova, 2, 9, 19n3, 40, 44, 57-59, 107-112, 115-124, 135-136, 153, 307 Berkovits, Eliezer, 310, 312, 327n2 Bialik, Hayyim Nahman, 90 Biblical figures: Aaron, 215-217, 270-271; Abraham, 317; Amalek, 248-249, 257n59, 258n69; Balaam, 236-237, 253n5; David, 267-269, 279n30; Haman, 288; Isaac, 259, 348; Jacob, 131-135, 156-159, 173n32, 227, 348; Joseph, 134-135, 227; Miriam, 7, 215-219, 225-227, 229-230,
353-354; Moses, 159, 215-218, 225-230, 242, 261-266, 365
366 Index Biblical figures (continued) 269-272, 297, 349-350, 352, 354; Noah, 305 Biblical prophets: Hosea, 266; Isaiah, 284, 316; Jeremiah, 19, 332n64; Micah, 216. See also Prophecy/ Prophetic Renewal Binah. See sefirot Blessing, 55-56, 203-204, 218, 227, 263, 343, 354 Body/Embodiment, 10-11, 84, 90-93, 96, 109-110, 131-137, 141-143, 146-147, 149Ո26, 157, 164-168, 221, 228-229, 240, 244, 247, 251, 338-339, 343-344, 358n51 Boethius, 199, 208n23 Bones, 165-167, 169, 274 Book, 167-169, 174n43, 210n61, 337, 344-345 Brill, Alan, 69nl0, 164 Brown, Benjamin, 20nl0, 169n4 Buber, Martin, 18, 21nl5, 64, 164, 169n2, 174n33, 336. See also Neo-Hasidism Buddhism, 17, 19, 60, 66, 73n59, 75n82, 150n36, 336 Caleb, 288-289 Carlebach, Shlomo, 16-18, 64, 67, 311, 314, 325-326 Charlap, Yaakov Moshe, 313 Children, 7, 83, 186-187, 213, 221228, 325-326, 339-342, 353-354 Christianity, 20nl3, 31, 36, 67, 75n83, 147nl Commandment (mitsvah), 60, 88-90, 92-93, 103n37, 110, 133-134, 147, 152n64, 157, 217, 227, 242, 249-250, 341, 346 Communication, 4, 118, 154, 157158, 159 Compassion, 133, 140-141, 152n65, 219-220, 223-228, 270-271, 293-294 Concentration camps: Auschwitz, 17, 199, 312, 325-326; Chełmno, 14, 291, 298; Treblinka, 8, 268-269, 273, 292, 296; Trawniki, 2, 123, 130ո57, 314 Contemplation: contemplative practice, 4, 9, 16-17, 65, 80, 91-92, 135-140, 161, 168, 250-251, 333-337; meditation, 17, 66, 83, 107, 112-113, 122; visualization techniques, 9, 57-60, 336, 337, 345, 348 Consciousness: consciousness of the Hasid, 342; corporeality and, 151n47, 343; extinction of reflective, 246; future-
oriented, 167; heightened, 107, 109, 252; historical, 153, 184; permeation of one’s, 157, 161, 164, 173n25; self creation and, 138, 142-145. See also subjectivity Corporeality/Physicality, 10-11, 57, 83, 85, 91, 96, 111, 113, 118, 129n50, 132-136, 141, 146, 149n26, 15ІП47, 160-161, 166-168, 192, 198, 199, 221, 223-224, 240-241, 250, 264, 273, 274, 276, 285, 337-339, 341-345, 350 Cosmos, 65, 93, 97, 203-205, 223-224, 228, 298 Cosmogony, 228 Cosmology, 203, 338-339, 352 Covenant, 14-15, 115, 307, 309-314, 316-327, 350-351 Creativity, 61, 63, 79, 80, 88, 89, 94-95, ІОЗпЗЗ, 138-140, 152n64, 154, 186, 198, 202, 205, 208v26, 214, 228, 230, 336. See also exegesis
Index Crisis, 14, 18-19, 37, 41, 43-45, 50ո52, 87, 119-120, 164, 169ոՅ, 203, 213, 215-216, 234ո22, 258ո62, 273, 314, 320-321, 326, 338, 340, 341, 347, 350, 351, 353 Critical Edition, 3, 12, 53, 179-189, 194-198, 213, 291, 333-335 Culture, 23ո48, 31, 63, 83, 155-156, 175ո44, 198, 201, 208Ո26, 227, 248, 295 Daat, 85, 140, 143-146, 157, 237, 242-243, 250. See also sefirot Death, 2, 7, 8, 9, 12, 45, 123, 137, 138, 149n26, 155, 165-166, 185-186, 191, 192, 196, 198-205, 209n39, 214, 215-216, 216, 219, 225, 227-231, 235, 238, 243, 251, 260, 285, ЗОЗпЗІ, 306, 319, 323, 330n38, 347, 353, 354 Deportations, 2, 8, 242, 268-269, 273, 353. See also Great Action/ Deportation Derekh ha-melekh, 2, 91, ЮЗпЗО, 104n53, 153-156, 188, 239 Despair, 14, 186, 200-201, 207n6, 266, 269-270, 288, 293, 297, 308, 326, 348. See also belief, faith, suffering Devekut (attachment), 5, 81, 116-119, 131, 148n8, 170nl0, 324 Devotion, 5-6, 10, 17, 55, 79-83, 87, 89-98, 132-133, 140, 230, 264, 266, 275, 340-343, 349-351 Diamond, James A., 13, 308 Disease/Illness, 8, 277, 288, 338 Dislocation, 4, 7, 34-35, 41, 61, 75n83, 155 Doctrine, 11-13, 29, 188, 202, 210n49, 224, 274-275, 334, 353-354 367 Drink, 5, 111, 125nl3. See also corporeality Economy, 30, 35, 41, 43, 47nl0, 55, 120-122, 129n50, 169n3, 346 Ecstasy, 5, 9, 54-59, 66, 68n6, 87-88, 122, 128n41, 336 Education/Pedagogy: Hasidism and, 42, 44-45, 82, 89; Shapira’s tracts on, 2, 9-10, 15, 44, 54, 112, 153, 201, 296, 307, 340, 345-346; Shapira’s orientation towards, 7, 44, 82-83, 93, 109, 121, 154-155, 249-250, 333, 336-337, 340-345 Egalitarianism, 46nl, 110,
113, 116-118 Egypt, 114-115, 243, 267-272, 281-284, 293-294, 350 Elimelekh of Grodzisk. See Shapira/ Shapiro family Elimelekh of Lizensk, 6, 55, 166, 170n8, 17ІПІ2, 337 Elimelekh Shapira (nephew), 180. See also Shapira/Shapiro family Emotion/Affect: vital flow and, 10, 15, 346, 350; study and, 81-98, 339, 345; knowledge and, 157, 268, 205, 109, 158-165, 225, 231, 334, 338 Engenderment, 17ІПІ5, 228-230 Epicurus, 305 Epstein, Kalonymus, 55, 103n41, 108 Esh Kodesh. See Sermons from the Years of Rage Esoteric, 82, 84-85, 94, 163-164, 246, 338 Ethnographic/Ethnography, 17, 345, 355n6, 356nl3, 360n84. See also anthropology Evil, 117, 154, 219, 231, 236-238, 248, 258Ո64, 283, 285, 305, 308-310, 319, 321-322, 326, 327
368 Index Exegesis, 79-80, 84, 87-91, 94-95, 98-99, ІОЗпЗЗ, 204, 214, 217, 231. See also creativity, study Exile, 122, 161-163, 166, 239, 243, 350 Existentialism, 3, 11, 89, 108, 145146, 149n24, 160, 200-201, 250, 259, 321, 341, 352-353 Experience: affect and, 15; embodied and lived, 93, 131, 147, 151, 257n59, 268-273, 338-339, 346; of faith and doubt, 200-203, 305-301, 316, 324, 335; Hasidism and, 155-160; mystical or religious, 5, 9, 57-59, 109, 122-124; prophetic, 58-59, 122-124, 168, 338, 346; self-creation and, 137; Shapira’s personal, 53, 155, 166, 185-188, 237, 272-273, 283-285; study and, 80, 83-90, 98; suffering and, 240, 243, 252, 295, 346, 348, 349, 351, 354 Explanation: the absence of, 204, 231, 260-261, 263, 267, 275-277 Expulsion, 35, 154, 249 Face, 151n47, 161-162, 221, 225, 228-230, 259, 327n2, 343 Facsimile, 181, 291 Faith (emunah): acts of, 123; crisis and loss of, 14-15, 19, 154-155, 164, 192, 297, 307-311, 316, 338, 351; defining, 11; faith beyond intellect, reason and, 168, 200-201, 246, 248-250, 289, 351; simple, 250-251; strengthening of 267, 273, 288-289, 294, 298, 333 Feeling (hargashah), 10, 86-87, 96, 133, 141-145, 175n43, 204, 243, 346, 348. See also Emotion/Affect Final Solution, 292, 298 Flesh, 110, 139, 263, 339, 343. See also corporeality France, 288 Frankl, Viktor, 199, 208n25 Fraternity (Mystical Fraternity), 2, 9-Ю, 40, 43-45, 107-124 Free Will, 109, 340-341, 351, 358n39 Friendship (haverini), 113, 116-118 Funkenstein, Amos, 309-310, 312 Garb, Jonathan, 68n5 Gassing as murder, 237, 291, 296 Geertz, Clifford, 203-204, 334 Gender, 12, 232n8.
See also women Genocide, 3, 8, 12, 14, 61, 302nl9, 355 Gentiles/non-Jews, 48n28, 65-67, 121, 188, 257n60 Germans, 8, 191-192, 248-249, 284, 288-289, 291, 300, 323 Germany, 248-249, 258n62, 288-289 Ghetto: Lodz, 269; Warsaw, 8-11, 98, 153, 180, 184, 203-204, 231, 237, 241, 260, 268-269, 279n30, 292, 300, 315, 323, 333-335; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 8 Golem, 65, 149n24, 158-159, 171Ш5 Great Action/Deportation, 204, 231, 277, 292-298, 307-313, 320, 331n49. See also deportations Greenberg, Yitz, 310, 312 Green, Arthur, 64, 174n33, 257n50 Grodzisk (Mazowiecki), 22ո27. See also Shapira/Shapiro family Guide of the Perplexed, 232n8, 239, 245, 251, 253n8, 255n37 Guilt, 198, 204 Halakhah, 8, 81-82, 85-90, 91-92, 99, 104n58, 105n78, 203, 206n2, 341, 343. See ako commandment
Index Hakhsharat ha-avreihim, 2, 112, 181, 299, ЗОЗпЗІ, 307, 346 Handwriting. See writing Hannukah; 1941 sermon for, 317-319, 350; annotation to 1941 sermon for, 238, 294-296, 315, 317-322, 351 Hasid; definition, 160, 172nl8, 341, 339; tsaddik and, 36, 39, 164, 342-343; Yosl Rakovers identity as, 323-324 Hasidic Modernism, 9, 19, 150n36, 335-336 Hasidism: “à la carte” Hasidism, 4, 9, 36, 41-43, 337; Belz, 15, 62; Bratslav, 7, 16, 55, 62, 117, 120, 124n3, 172nl8, 258n71, 328n7, 335; Chabad/Lubavitch (or Habad), 9, 11, 15-16, 62-63, 104Ո57, 141-142, 173n26, 173n31, 174n39, 224, 244-245, 254n26, 255n32, 255n38, 300, 313; Ger, 15, 33, 38-39, 42-44, 51n58, 61-63, 80, 82, 323; Golden age of, 7, 43; Izbits, 9, 16, 55, 124n3, 149n24, 335; Karlin-Stolin, 108, 114-119; Komárno, 115, 150n30; Kotsk (Kock), 9, 38, 55, 79, 82, 103n37, 149n24, 335; magical and spiritual, 44, 54-56, 58-65, 67, 168, 335-336; Satmar, 15, 62-63, 75n83, 313; Toledot Aharon, 63; Vizhnits, 15, 62 Healing/Medicine, 8, 14, 54, 179, 192, 294, 334, 336, 340, 345, 355 Heaven/Heavens: emptiness of the child’s, 324; initiative from, 217, 227; storming, 271-273; tsaddik connecting earth and, 55, 167 Hebrew, 53, 64,113,153,191,195, 245, 265, 282, 296, 299, 341-342, 345 Heidegger, Martin, 200, 208n27, 209n39, 248 369 Heresy, 186, 306, 312, 330n38 Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 4, 64, 69n6, 73n63, 164, 336, 357Ո35 Hinduism, 66-67, 336 History: of ideas, 3; God of, 350-351; Jewish, 238, 265, 283, 295, 320-322, 327; social, 3, 108 Holiness/Sanctity, 94-96, 109-110, 120, 132-136, 146-147, 150n35, 157-168, 217, 221-230, 252, 343-349
Holocaust: as novum, 238, 253nl4, 296, 298, 313, 318-322; theology and, 14, 310-314, 321-323, 327, 333, 349-352 Holy Hunchback, 16-17, 311, 314, 323, 325-326 Homily/Homiletics, 12-13, 88, 97-99, 153, 155, 175n44, 204, 213-214, 239, 268-269, 272-273 Hope, 160, 186, 192, 200, 205, 207n6, 230-231, 239, 266-273, 285, 298, 308, 325, 347 Hovat ha-talmidim, 2, 79, ЮЗпЗО, 120, 297, 337, 340, 359n61 Huberband, Shimon (Szymon), 184, 283, 288 Idei, Moshe, 9, 13, 17, 168, 335-336 Image, 161-164, 276 Imagination, 36, 58, 108, 164, 238, 335-336 Imitatio Dei, 133, 255n37 Immanence, 5, 11, 93, 110, 131, 162, 230-231, 241, 251, 254n23 Incarnation, 10-11, 110, 131, 134, 136-137, 147nl Individuality/Individualism, 4, 10, 36, 80, 108-109, 128n41, 131, 136-139, 142, 145-146, 152n64, 157-160, 200, 222-225, 227-230, 336-341
370 Index Individuation, 142, 200, 219-221, 229 Influx, 57, 59-60, 349, 353-354 Intention (kavvanah), 5, 109-110, 113, 117, 120-121, 132, 134-136, 264, 344 Intellect: body and, 244,251; integration of emotion and, 86-92, 141; transcendence of, 88, 239, 244, 246247, 249-250, 252, 338-342, 351 Interpretation, 79-80, 88-89, 95-98, 135, 138-139, 143-145, 157, 218, 230, 242-243, 339-341. See also creativity; exegesis Israel, land of, 1, 8, 15-16, 62, 85, 87, 112, 120, 180, 181, 211n65, 290, 297, 299, 323 Israelite: Shapira’s use of term, 233nl3 Jewish Historical Institute, 180 Joy, 5, 111, 113, 141, 230, 266-268, 272-273, 337, 353 Judgment (din): 86, 98, 120, hasid and, 160-161, 341-342; attribute of, 219-221, 341-342 Kabbalah: contemporary interest in, 65-67; Cordovero and, 54, 56-57; ecstatic, 9, 56-59, 336; Hasidism and, 10, 54, 67, 76n86, 81, 96; Lurianic, 5, 67, 97, 112, 219, 237; Shapira on, 82, 85-90, 91-97, 111, 135-136, 160, 338-342; Zeitlin and, 119-121. See also Zohar Kavvanah. See intention Kedushat Levi. See Levi Yitzhak of Bardishev Kleinman, Arthur and Joan, 355n2, 355n6 Kook, Abraham Isaac, 16-17, 60, 90, 127ՈՅՅ, 258n71, 357n23, 358n39 Kook, Zvi Yehudah, 313, 319, 331n40 Language, 10, 13, 64, 82, 93, 158, 262, 263, 264, 266, 342-346, 346-355 Laitman, Michael, 65 Leadership: crisis and, 213, 285, 300; models of hasidic, 6, 21n20, 34, 39-45, 55-56, 63, 168; Shapira on, 225-230 Leib-Smokler, Erin, 13, 19, 244, 346 Leshem, Zvi, 9-10, 43, 135 Levi, Primo, 306 Levi Yitzhak of Barditshev, 144-145, 267-269 Levinas, Emmanuel, 203, 323-325 Liebes, Yehuda, 112, 199 Light:
divine vitality and, 341-345, 353-354; drawing down of, 59-60, 92, 167; receptivity to, 162, 226; revelation of, 93, 132, 163-164; texts and, 103n37, 167-168; tsaddik and, 165-168 Limbs, 84, 110, 167, 251, 344 Literature: exegetical, 12; general, 3, 119, 340, 345; Hasidic, 148n8, 258n71, 342, 349; kabbalistic, 83, 93, 112, 222, 258n71, 339; merkavah, 112; rabbinic, 81-82, 85, 90, 93-97, 143, 194, 237-238, 257n60, 277n3; Russian, 209n32 Lithuania, 16, 61, 80-81, 89-92, 313, 323 Lodz, 83 Longing, 84, 96-98, 209n39, 335, 342, 349-350, 354 Love: afflictions/chastenings of love, 13, 244, 260-261, 274-277, 346; for others, 110-113, 117-118, 141-142, 171nll, 276-277; of and for God, 311, 317-318, 323-325, 350; suffering and, 267-268, 272; “Three Loves” of the Besht, 129n50
Index Luna, Yitzhak and Lurianic Kabbalah, 5, 67, 81, 97, 108, 112-114, 117, 17ІПІ5, 174n39 Luzzatto, Moshe Hayyim, 108, 112 Maayan, David, 10-11, 170nl0, 175n45 Magid, Shaul, 14-15, 75n85, 349-355 Maggid: of Mezritsh, 6, 9, 55, 115-117, 149n24, 158, 163, 17ІПІ5, 172n24, 335; of Kozhnits, 55, 82, 166, 174n36, 337; of Zlotshev, 81 Manuscripts: Shapira’s, 1-3, 153, 169, 180-187, 193-202, 204-205, 213215, 232nl2, 291-292, 296-299, ЗОЗпЗІ, 306, 315-316; various, 57, 114 Мя’ог va-shemesh, 103n41, 108, 174n36 Martyr/Martyrdom, 108,119, 123-124, 210n45, 236, 262-266, 275-277, 300, 322 Mayse, Ariel Evan, 10, 17, 20nll, 131, 204, 210Ո56, 339 Media/Mediation, 10-11, 23n48, 42, 44-45, 164, 17ІПІ5, 279n30, 334-335 Meaninglessness, 155, 186, 200-203, 312 Meditation. See contemplation Mercy (rahamim), 1, 110, 118, 165, 179, 208nl2, 219-221, 227-228, 268, 271, 273, 276, 293-294, 295, 298, 299, 309, 318, 319, 323 Messianism, 122, 129n54 Metaphor, 158, 163 Mevo he-she’arim, 2, 112, 175n45, 181, 296-297, 299, ЗОЗпЗІ Midrash, 19; Shapira on, 84-90, 98-99, 134-135, 204, 238-242, 295, 318; Shapira’s use of, 98-99, 134- 371 135, 143-146, 159, 165, 180, 204, 227-228, 238, 240-242, 247-248. See also Talmud; study Migration, 7, 155 Mindfulness, 11, 17, 150n36, 160 Miracle, 44, 266-268, 352 Mishnah, 86-87, 99, 110. See also Talmud; study Mitsvah. See commandment Modernization, 6, 19, 36, 73n64, 336-340 Morality, 36, 85, 162, 249, 334-335, 341, 346 Moria, Herman, 12 Mourning, 153, 243 Moses. See biblical characters Murder, 1, 14, 33, 119, 123, 184, 187, 53, 61, 207n4, 221-222, 238, 249, 273, 291,
295, 297-298, 319. See also Final Solution, Genocide Music, 13, 36, 67, 112, 125nl3 Mussar, 80, 119 Mysticism, 20nl0, 64-66, 112, 154, 203-204, 224-225, 241, 244-245, 345 Nahmanides, 136, 281, 286, ЗОІпб, 302nl4, 340 Nazi, 4, 14, 61, 191, 206n2, 207n4, 208n27, 248, 265, 272, 275, 283-285 Negation, 201, 224, 228. See also self Neo-Hasidism, 3, 15-19, 45, 54, 63-67, 154, 169n2, 333, 336. See also Buber, Martin; Zeitlin, Hillel Nerves/Nervous Disorder, 4, 9, 338 Neusner, Jacob, 309, 311-312, 318-319 Newspaper, 23n41, 74n76, 122, 181, 323 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 201
372 Index Oneg Shabbat archive, 175n47, 184, 292, 298, ЗОЗпЗІ Palestine. See Israel Pain. See suffering Pantheism, 5, 113, 241, 244-245 Paragraphing, 12, 214-215, 315 Parashiyot (Torah Portions): Ekev, 292, 295, 298; Hazon, 292; Hukkat, 186, 214-231; Metsora, 286; Mishpatim, 188, 206n3, 292; Naso, 188; Shelah, 288; Shemot, 167; Toledot, 284, 347; Vayyeshev, 131; Yitro, 182-183, 242; Zakhor, 291 Pedagogy. See education Phenomenology, 3, 9, 12-15, 67, 80, 119, 147, 153-154, 192, 202-205, 315, 335-346, 348, 351-354 Philology, 67, 194-198 Philosophy/Philosophical, 12-13, 60, 64, 119-123, 144-145, 186-188, 198-202, 237-258 Piasezcno (town), 2, 7, 30-34, 40, 45, 51n66, 115, 296 Piekarz, Mendel, 191, 333, 334 Piety, 7, 82, 84, 89, 91, 242, 340 Poland, Interbellum, 1-4, 41-43, 80-82, 89, 119, 347-348 Polen, Nehemia, 12-13, 17, 102n30, 123-124, 308-309, ՅՅՕոՅՕ Postmodernism, 16, 283, 300-301 Prayer, 5, 9, 31, 36-41, 56-57, 61, 66, 81, 94-95, 97, 109, 113, 117, 120֊ 121, 138, 155, 179, 223, 239-240, 253-254, 272-273, 275, 284, 287, 290, 293, 309, 317, 325, 347, 350 Progeny. See children Proofing, 181, 184-185, 194-196, 204-205 Prophecy/Prophetic Renewal, 4-7, 57-59, 68-76, 88-89, 107, 112, 167-170, 296, 333-338, 344-352 Psalms; interpretation of passages from, 265, 268, 270, 276; recitation of, 293 Psychology/Psychological; 9-11, 123, 153-154, 158, 185-186, 198-205, 336-339 Purification/Purity, 99-100, 122, 260, 265, 274, 277 Rackover, Yosl, 309, 311, 323-325, 326 Rage (za’am), 235-237, 251 Rashi, 19, 134, 139, 143-145, 166, 216, 219, 262, 267, 270-271, 286 Reader, 87-89, 97, 137,
147, 167-169, 193-195. See also author Reason/Rationality; Hasidim and, 12, 244; Shapira’s relation to, 147, 161, 235-248, 249-253; faith beyond, 289, 350; critique of Western, 200, 248-249 Reciprocity, 167, 240, 346-350 Reformation/Counter- Reformation, 19, 42-45, 51n56 Reiser, Daniel, 2-4, 12, 58, 170n9, 179-189, 214-215, 231, 291, 296-297, 306-332, 333-336, 348 Responsa, 206n2 Revelation; divine, 84, 87, 92, 136; interdependence of divine and human, 136-139; Heschel on, 164, 357Ո34; ongoing, 164, 167, 222-223, 353-354; of the soul/self, 111, 150n36, 157; through text, 93, 344-345 Ringelblum archives, 1, 231, 237, 282, 298, 335. See also Oneg Shabbat archive Ritual: ritual efficacy, 6, 11-15, 203-204, 333-335, 338, 345, 353; ritual in its own right, 203-205 Rosenzweig, Franz, 12, 191, 200, 235 Rosh Hashanah (New Year), 31-32, 97, 119, 140-146, 261
Index Rupture, 3, 11, 13-14, 19, 198, 238, 244, 312-313, 320-321, 327, 327ո2, 348 Russia, 6, 41, 82, 114, 119 Sabbath, 36, 63, 66, 136, 153, 179, 192, 206n3, 242, 255n29, 284 Sabbateanism, 67 Sacrifice, 240, 263-266, 317, 320, 350 Sadness, 98, 272-273 Safed, 56, 85, 108, 114-115, 124 Salvation: advocacy of irrational faith in, 237, 289, 316-317, 350; coping with lack of apparent, 273-274, 289, 293-294; divine initiative and, 294, 347-348; human activity and, 83, 211n65, 266, 334; possible, 232, 311, 318. See also belief, faith Sartre, Jean-Paul, 145-146 Scholem, Gershom, 10, 15, 59, 102nl9, 114, 219, 238, 254n23, 339 Schweid, Eliezer, 307-309, 316, 322, 333 Secret: Torah and, 85, 94, 111, fraternities, 44, 107, sharing of ones, 111, 119 Secularization, 6, 32, 80, 89, 121 Seeman, Don, 9, 13, 15, 105n79, 139, 150n36, 202-204, 329nl7 Seer of Lublin, 47nll, 55, 174n36, 305, 307 Sefirot, 17ІПІ5, 219-221, 228, 246-247 Self: self-creation, 138-139, 142-146; self-knowledge, 140, 156-157, 242, 339; self-nullification (bittul), 10-11, 57, 131, 136, 149n24, 158, 170nl0, 246; self-recognition, 95, 139-141, 145-146, 284, 347-348; self-referential, 168, 230, 234n22; self-sacrifice (mesirat or mesirut nefesh), 240, 317-320, 350 373 Sermons from the Years of Rage (Esh Kodesh): 8, 12-19, 153, 193-202, 236, 259, 268, 274, 281-291, 301, 307, ՅՅՕոՅՕ; critical edition of, 3-4, 12, 53, 180, 188-189, 194-198, 213, 236, 291, 314-315, 331n52, 333, 359n68 Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman, 16-17, 24n57, 64, 66, 75n82 Shneur Zalman of Liady, 55, 92, 104n57, 141-142, 173n25, 173n31, 244-246, 255n36, 256n49,
300, 335. See also Tanya Shapira/Shapiro family: Elimelekh of Grodzisk (father), 7, 22n28, 22n29, 33, 56, 170n8, 174n36, 174n43, 286, 296; Elimelekh (son), 8, 230, 234n22, 285, ЗОЗпЗІ; Rahel Hayyah Miriam (wife), 7-8, 22n30, 230, 234n22; Rekhell Yehudis (daughter), 230, 234n22; Yeshaya (brother), 8, 15, 297, 299, 328n9 Shekhinah, 113, 221, 228, 230, 251 Shestov, Lev, 200-201, 209n32, 209n37, 209n41 Shi’ur Komah, 167, 344 Shtibl/Shtiblekh, 9, 36-42, 66, 155 Silence, 159, 263-266, 269-270, 322, 327 Sin, 113, 138, 162, 218-219, 221, 225-229, 259-260, 265, 274, 298, 346, 351, 354 Slavery/Slave, 261-262, 265, 267, 269, 272, 279Ո35, 292 Socrates, 12, 198-199 Sonderkommando, 292 Song, 67, 111, 266-272, 278nl5 Sorrow, 194, 196, 231, 238, 276. See also sadness, suffering Soul: animal, 111; body and, 84, 131, 141-142, 146-147, 165, 192, 244, 339, 343, 348; God and, 223, 250,
374 Index Soul (continued) 263-264; levels and states of, 155, 339; perception and, 162, 223, 342, 352; revelation of, 94-97, 105n79, 111, 139-140, 150Ո36, 173n27, 345; soul of tsaddik, 165-167; study and, 83, 85-100; writing and, 137, 208nl9, 210n61, 344 Soviet Union, 288 Speech; thought, deeds and, 91, 109-110, silence and, 159; public, 129n53, 169n4; letters of divine, 341 Spies, 288-289, 349 Spirit, Holy, 86-88, 96 Spirituality, 61-67, 84, 90, 146, 155, 168, 217, 224, 227, 335-338, 343 Study. See Torah Subject: intersubjectivity, 345, 348-349; subjectivity, 3, 10-11, 14, 334, 336, 338-349, 352-355 Suffering: afflictions of love (yissurim shel ahavah), 13, 260-268, 272-277; pain and, 121-122, 141, 192, 198, 204, 225, 229-231, 238, 244, 251, 260-261, 264-271, 274-277, 316, 335, 346, 355; for the Other, 203-205 Suicide, 17, 154, 169n3 Sukkot, 8, 275 Talmud (Gemara): cited by Shapira, 166, 216-218, 236, 264-265, 268, 271, 284; devotion and, 79-98; Gemara of Tannaim and Amoraim, 86-87; in curriculum, 16, 82-83, 110, 339, 347; transformative study and, 99-100; Zohar and, 88 Tanya, 92, 120, 173n25, 300. See also Shneur Zalman of Liady Temporal or temporality. See time Testimony, 14, 41, 54-55, 107, 113, 115, 123, 196, 202, 205, 205Ш, 283, 292, 306, 314-315 Textual practice and textuality, 11-14, 203, 334, 341, 345 Theodicy, 13, 231, 259-261, 275, 281, 310-313, 318-323, 325, 329n22, 331n49, 351. See also suffering Theology: anthropocentric, 263, 271; consistency of Shapira’s theology, 247-249, 315; covenantal, 309, 320-326, 350; Hasidic, 83, 217, 230, 235, 246; incarnational,
10, 131; Jewish, 3; law and, 89; post-Holocaust, 14, 19, 310-314, 321-327, 349-352; rabbinic, 221; theology of Maimonides, 244-245; theology of personalism, 230; Torah and, 157 Theurgy, 170n9, 208nl2, 349 Tiberius, 9-10, 108, 114-119, 124 Time, 13, 99, 204, 220, 227, 230, 349 Torah: Study of, 79-106, 110-122; Letters of, 132, 134-136; selfrevelation and, 136-139, 157; scroll, 137 Tradition: alienation from, 89; aura of, 34, 36; belief and, 250; challenge to, 308, 313, 320-321, 326; fidelity to, 308; hasidic, 164, 239, 339; hasidic tradition and renewal, 164, 175n46; Jewish literary, 13, 281-282; kabbalistic, 243; language of, 13, 80, 236; philosophical, 245; rabbinic, 215, 249; return to, 297; tradition of mystical fraternities, 112, 115, 119, 121; wisdom and, 247-248 Transcendence, 134-135, 163, 231, 242, 247 Trauma, 154, 296. See also suffering
375 Index Truth, 11, 15, 200, 230, 243-245, 283, 287, 300-301, 326, 349-350 Tsmtsum, 160, 241, 254ո23, 345 Tsaddik, 6, 9-10, 33-45, 54-56, 64, 66, 116-118, 15ІП40, 155, 164-168, 217, 223-224, 271-272, 335-337, 342-344, 354 Tsav ve-zeruz, 2, 105ո67, 137, 154, 210ո61, 299, ЗОЗпЗІ, 340 Ukraine, 5, 62 Ultra-Orthodoxy, 2, 16, 313-314, 322 Veil, 162, 271-273, 311 Vessels, 87, 135, 158, 162 Visualization. See contemplation Vital, Hayyim, 56-60, 81, 113-114, 267, 339 Vitality/Vital Flow, 5-6, 10-11, 15, 60, 91, 105Ո79, 133, 168, 196, 203, 219, 334, 338-339, 341, 344-346, 349-352, 354-355 War: devastation and, 30, 154, 192; World War I, 4, 7, 33-37, 41-43, 154, 200, 235, 290-291; World War II, 15, 120, 239 Weber, Max, 10, 65, 202 Weeping/Tears, 5, 154, 179, 185, 196, 266, 278nl5, 298, 346. See also suffering Weil, Simone, 324 Wiesel, Elie, 64, 305, 307, 324 Wiskind, Ora, 10-11, 13, 17, 44, 139, 354-355 Wodziński, Marcin, 4, 9, 17, 155, 337 Wolfson, Eliot R., 23ո46, 72ո49, 147ПІ, 173ո31, 209ո32, 210ո56, 255ո27, 255ո32, 357ո32, 358ո51 Women, 7, 62, 170ո5, 217-218, 223-230 Writing: self and, 137-139, 158; Shapira’s reflections on, 167-168, 185; death and, 192, 196, 198-199, 203-205; writing as mystical ritual, 211n65; handwriting, 1-3, 180-181, 188-189, 194, 197, 282 Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayyim, 309, 312, 314 Yeshiva: Bet El, 107, 112-115, 117-119, 124; Da’at Moshe, 7, 42, 44-45, 50n50, 82-83, 102n25, 326; Shapira’s teachings in the Zionist yeshiva, 16-17 Yiddish, 2, 16, 53, 64, ЮЗпЗО, 153, 17ІПІ5, 191, 282, 299, 323, 325 Yom Kippur, 2, 160-163, 251, 288 Zeitlin, Hillel, 60, 64, 74ո76,
104ո57, 108, 119-123, 169ո2, 201, 336. See also Neo-Hasidism Zionism, 7, 16, 313, 330ո38 Žohar: cited by Shapira, 218, 352; ideas rooted in, 244, 246, 257n51; mystical fraternities and, 108-109, 112, 115, 117; revelation and, 167; Shapira’s commentary on, 85, 210n47; Shapira on exegesis in, 88-89; study of, 88-89, 97, 117, 119-121; view of evil in, 237; Tikkunei Zohar, 161-163 Ґ Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München N |
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