Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson by Elliot R. Wolfson - 2009-10-14

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New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Very good. blue cloth, gilt lettering, 452 pp.

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Hardback. New. Menahem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994) was the seventh and seemingly last Rebbe of the Habad-Lubavitch dynasty. Marked by conflicting tendencies, Schneerson was a radical messianic visionary who promoted a conservative political agenda, a reclusive contemplative who built a hasidic sect into an international movement, and a man dedicated to the exposition of mysteries who nevertheless harbored many secrets. Schneerson astutely masked views that might be deemed heterodox by the canons of orthodoxy while engineering a fundamentalist ideology that could subvert traditional gender hierarchy, the halakhic distinction between permissible and forbidden, and the social-anthropological division between Jew and Gentile. While most literature on the Rebbe focuses on whether or not he identified with the role of Messiah, Elliot R. Wolfson, a leading scholar of Jewish mysticism and the phenomenology of religious experience, concentrates instead on Schneerson's apocalyptic sensibility and his… Read More

Columbia Univ Pr, 2009. Hardcover. New. fourth edition edition. 472 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.50 inches.

Columbia Univ Pr, 2009. Hardcover. New. fourth edition edition. 472 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.50 inches.