Setting the Table Anew: Law and Spirit in a Nineteenth-Century Hasidic Code
This essay interrogates the legal discourse of Shulḥan ha-Tahor, a curious—and curiously understudied—work of Hasidic halakhah written by Rabbi Yitzḥak Ayzik Yehudah Yehiel Safrin of Komarno. The book is, at heart, a systematic reformulation of Jewish law in light of Kabbalah, Hasidism, and the ques...
| Published in: | The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ḳaro, Yosef 1488-1575, Shulḥan ʿarukh
/ Hassidism
/ Jewish law
/ Cabala
/ History 1800-1900
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BH Judaism TJ Modern history |
| Further subjects: | B
Jewish Mysticism
B early modern Jewish thought B Kabbalah B Hasidism B Jewish Law |
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| Summary: | This essay interrogates the legal discourse of Shulḥan ha-Tahor, a curious—and curiously understudied—work of Hasidic halakhah written by Rabbi Yitzḥak Ayzik Yehudah Yehiel Safrin of Komarno. The book is, at heart, a systematic reformulation of Jewish law in light of Kabbalah, Hasidism, and the quest for personal mystical experience. Shulḥan ha-Tahor offers a rare case study for the interface of mystical experience, Hasidic devotional values, and kabbalistic doctrine as they explicitly shape the codified forms—and norms—of halakhah. The essay reveals a different side of Jewish modernity through a close reading of an exceptional nineteenth-century legal code. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-285X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/1477285X-12341303 |