Afterword

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part One: Revelation
5. Chapter One. The Test of Letter Combinations: The Mystical Initiation Ceremony that Rabbi Nachman Underwent, and its Echoes in Likutei Moharan 7
6. Chapter Two. “The Story of the Bread”: Receiving the Torah 29
7. Chapter Three. 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
8. Part Two: Rectification
9. Introduction: The Enterprise of Rectifications 139
10. Chapter Four. 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
11. Chapter Five. The Booklet of Tests and Rabbi Nachman’s Practice of not Avoiding Tests 192
12. Chapter Six. “The Story of the Armor”: More from the Bratslav Archives Containing Suppressed Texts 225
13. Chapter Seven. Arrows and Melodies: “The Story of the Beggar without Hands” 257
14. Chapter Eight. Uman – “Behold, I Give Over my Soul” 278
15. Chapter Nine. 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
16. Afterword 339
17. Appendix
18. Appendix One. “The Story of Rabbi Perachia”: Additional Links between the Zoharic Literature and “The Guest Who Came In” 347
19. Appendix Two. Mysticism and the “Stream of Consciousness”: a Note Following the Analysis of “The Guest Who Came In” 350
20. Appendix Three. Photographs of Manuscript Pages 353
21. Bibliography 361
22. Name Index 377
23. Subject Index 381