Song, Tale, and Prayer in Hasidic Devotion

Session Submission Type: Panel Session

Abstract

The papers in this panel look at three specific forms of devotion within Hasidism. Dael Rodrigues Garcia revisits Nachman of Breslov's "Tale of a Rabbi and an Only Son" within a literary context to argue that it belongs fully within the oeuvre of Nachman's imaginative tales and to reveal the subversive theology that it teaches to its reader. Hava Vannikov-Shmulevich analyzes the Kaliver Hasidic song "Szól a kakas már," sung in Hungarian, within the context of the kabbalistic concepts of concealment and yichudim to reveal new layers of meaning in its use of a foreign language. Naftali Loewenthal investigates the uses and understandings of traditional teachings on contemplation in prayer within contemporary Habad society.

Sub Unit

• Jewish Mysticism

Individual Presentations

• "And Now We Need Tell It For Our Times" Between 'Tales From Ancient Times' To 'Sipurey Maasiot' by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov: a re-examination. (Hebrew) - Dael Rodrigues Garcia, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

• "The words of the song are compounded of the mystic names": The Language of the Kaliver Nigun and Its Hidden Meaning (Hebrew) - Hava Vannikov-Shmulevich

• Three Modes of Contemplation in Prayer in (Contemporary?) Habad - Naftali Loewenthal, N. Loewenthal

Zoom Host

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