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Volume 43, Issue 2

Special Issue: Special Issue on the Hasidic Sermon
Guest Editors: Glenn Dynner, Susannah Heschel, and Ora Wiskind


Artist’s Statement


Cover Artist’s Statement
by Ruth Pinkenson Feldman

Introduction


Introduction: Special Issue on the Hasidic Sermon
by Glenn Dynner, Susannah Heschel, and Ora Wiskind

Articles


Reflections On Hasidic Derashot: Some Introductory Comments
by Michael Fishbane

The Cultural and Social Context of the Hasidic Sermon in Early Hasidism
by Roee Goldschmidt

Figuring Firmaments: Toward a Literary Structure of the Hasidic Homily
by Elly Moseson

Emotional Vocabularies In Hasidic Sermons: Divine Emotions and Human Moral Emotions in Hayim va-Hesed by Hayim of Amdur
by Leore Sachs-Shmueli

The Hasidic Sermon as an Impressionistic Work and Some Halachic Consequences
by Aviezer Cohen

Beyond Orality And Writing: The Timespace of Ḥasidic Homiletics
by Elliot R. Wolfson

Interpretation as a Way of Faith
by Batya Hefter

The Role of the Hasidic Sermon in the Formation of the Bratslav Textual Canon, 1850–1950
by Alexandra Mandelbaum Kupeev

The Dust of Our Dances Covered Us Like Clouds: Documenting a Revelatory Hasidic Moment
by Aviv Luban

A Hasidic “Council of All Beings”: Ecology, Ethics, and Jewish Mysticism
by Ariel Evan Mayse

Ontological Uncertainties: Ṣimṣum and Science in the Oracular Hermeneutics of Chabad’s Seventh Rebbe
by Eli Rubin

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s Hasidic Harvest
by Or N. Rose

Joseph G. Weiss: Trailblazer in Hasidic Research
by Zvi Leshem

New Sources on Hasidic History


The Destruction of the House of Chernobyl: New Sources on Ukrainian Hasidism during the 1919–21 Pogroms
by Glenn Dynner and Netta Ehrlich

Book Reviews


Ten Days That Shook Ta-Nehisi Coates
by Jonathan Karp

Cover Art


"Within the Stones"
Art by Ruth Feldman, copyright 2018


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