Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction – My Way to (Neo) Ḥasidism xi
5. Early Ḥasidism
6. Chapter 1. “What happened, happened”: R. Ya’akov Yosef of Polonnoye on Ḥasidic Interpretation 3
7. Chapter 2. The Case of Jewish Arianism: The Pre-existence of the Ẓaddik in Early Ḥasidism 23
8. Chapter 3. The Intolerance of Tolerance: Maḥaloket (Controversy) and Redemption in Early Ḥasidism 37
9. Chapter 4. The Ritual Is Not the Hunt: The Seven Wedding Blessings, Redemption, and Jewish Ritual as Fantasy in R. Shneur Zalman of Liady 81
10. Chapter 5. Nature, Exile, and Disability in R. Nahman of Bratslav’s “The Tale of the Seven Beggars” 106
11. Later Ḥasidism
12. Chapter 6. Modernity as Heresy: The Introvertive Piety of Faith in R. Areleh Roth’s Shomer Emunim 141
13. Chapter 7. The Holocaust as Inverted Miracle: R. Shalom Noah Barzofsky of Slonim on the Divine Nature of Radical Evil 173
14. Chapter 8. The Divine/Human Messiah and Religious Deviance: Rethinking Ḥabad Messianism 200
15. Chapter 9. Covenantal Rupture and Broken Faith in R. Kalonymus Kalman Shapira’s Eish Kodesh 237
16. Chapter 10. American Jewish Fundamentalism: Ḥabad, Satmar, ArtScroll 263
17. Index of Sources 311
18. Index of Names 314