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16. Child Mind in H. asidic Spirituality
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Sam S. B. Shonkof
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Preface vii
- 1. The Spiritual Vocation of a Teacher: A Meditation 1
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BIBLE AND HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION
- 2. Monotheism and Anthropopathism in Hosea 11: Divine Personhood vs. Immutability in Biblical Theology 5
- 3 Before Eilu va’eilu: The Pentateuchal Anthology and Tolerance of Difference 22
- 4. The Isaiah Bulla, Jeremiah the Priest/Prophet, and Reinterpreting the Prophet (nby’) in the Persian Scribal Community 36
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CLASSICAL RABBINIC LITERATURE
- 5. Eden Lost and Regained: Mythmaking in Midrash 53
- 6. Gehinnom’s Punishments in Classical Rabbinic Literature 77
- 7. Problematizing the Midrashic Book in an Imperial Landscape 91
- 8. Substitutes for Sacrifice, Community Stewardship, and Rabbinic Paideia: Tractates Tithes and Second Tithe of the Mishnah 108
- 9 Thinking Gender through Grammar: BT Qiddushin 2a–3b 123
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MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND LITERATURE
- 10 Exegetical Palimpsests: The Eros and Mythos of Poetic Intertextuality 137
- 11. Beyond “Intention” in Ibn Paquda’s Duties of the Hearts 154
- 12. Songs to the Soul in Medieval Hebrew Poetry 167
- 13. Pronouncing Words, Creating Worlds: Matter and Form in Joseph Giqatilla’s Hermeneutics 182
- 14. The Power of Interpretation and the Interpretation of Power: Physiognomy and the Masters of Secrets in the Zohar 196
- 15. Mystical Autobiography in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah 211
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MODERN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND LITERATURE
- 16. Child Mind in H. asidic Spirituality 231
- 17. These Gates Open to the Longings of the Heart 249
- 18. Emotion, Autonomy, and the Mind in the Piaseczner Rebbe 264
- 19. “An Upside Down World”: The Concept of America in H. aredi Theology 278
- 20. Five Dimensions of Dignity: Jonathan Sacks on Judaism and the Human Condition 294
- 21. The Forgetting of Isaac 309
- 22. Pedagogies of PaRDeS: Michael Fishbane’s Jewish Hermeneutical Theology as a Vision of Contemporary Spiritual Education 323
- 23. Encounters across the Ages at the Edge of Childhood: Learning from “Modern Jewish Thought” 338
- 24. Strategic Discretion: Game Theory Models for Interactions of Transgender Jews and Their Orthodox Rabbis 354
- Bibliography of the Writings of Professor Michael Fishbane 369
- General Index 385
- Index of Sources 396
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Preface vii
- 1. The Spiritual Vocation of a Teacher: A Meditation 1
-
BIBLE AND HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION
- 2. Monotheism and Anthropopathism in Hosea 11: Divine Personhood vs. Immutability in Biblical Theology 5
- 3 Before Eilu va’eilu: The Pentateuchal Anthology and Tolerance of Difference 22
- 4. The Isaiah Bulla, Jeremiah the Priest/Prophet, and Reinterpreting the Prophet (nby’) in the Persian Scribal Community 36
-
CLASSICAL RABBINIC LITERATURE
- 5. Eden Lost and Regained: Mythmaking in Midrash 53
- 6. Gehinnom’s Punishments in Classical Rabbinic Literature 77
- 7. Problematizing the Midrashic Book in an Imperial Landscape 91
- 8. Substitutes for Sacrifice, Community Stewardship, and Rabbinic Paideia: Tractates Tithes and Second Tithe of the Mishnah 108
- 9 Thinking Gender through Grammar: BT Qiddushin 2a–3b 123
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MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND LITERATURE
- 10 Exegetical Palimpsests: The Eros and Mythos of Poetic Intertextuality 137
- 11. Beyond “Intention” in Ibn Paquda’s Duties of the Hearts 154
- 12. Songs to the Soul in Medieval Hebrew Poetry 167
- 13. Pronouncing Words, Creating Worlds: Matter and Form in Joseph Giqatilla’s Hermeneutics 182
- 14. The Power of Interpretation and the Interpretation of Power: Physiognomy and the Masters of Secrets in the Zohar 196
- 15. Mystical Autobiography in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah 211
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MODERN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND LITERATURE
- 16. Child Mind in H. asidic Spirituality 231
- 17. These Gates Open to the Longings of the Heart 249
- 18. Emotion, Autonomy, and the Mind in the Piaseczner Rebbe 264
- 19. “An Upside Down World”: The Concept of America in H. aredi Theology 278
- 20. Five Dimensions of Dignity: Jonathan Sacks on Judaism and the Human Condition 294
- 21. The Forgetting of Isaac 309
- 22. Pedagogies of PaRDeS: Michael Fishbane’s Jewish Hermeneutical Theology as a Vision of Contemporary Spiritual Education 323
- 23. Encounters across the Ages at the Edge of Childhood: Learning from “Modern Jewish Thought” 338
- 24. Strategic Discretion: Game Theory Models for Interactions of Transgender Jews and Their Orthodox Rabbis 354
- Bibliography of the Writings of Professor Michael Fishbane 369
- General Index 385
- Index of Sources 396
