Download or read book The Final Redeemer The Messianic Doctrine of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe written by Alon Dahan and published by . This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson served as Grand Rabbi or "Rebbe" of the Chabad Chassidic dynasty. Under his leadership, the previously small and exclusive Chassidic group expanded into a major force, whose influence was even felt in the non-Jewish world. A substantial portion of his disciples began to seriously contemplate whether he was the Messiah. "Dr. Alon Dahan's study on the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, is the most comprehensive, methodical and in-depth analysis yet written about this individual, who has served as a central figure in the spiritual world of twentieth century Jewry." Prof. Joseph Dan, Israel Prize Laureate, Hebrew University "...Dr. Dahan's study is unique in its clarity and systematic as it explores and explains the foundations of Messianic spiritualism and its global, societal influence from its inception after World War II until today..." Prof. Rachel Elior, Jewish Philosophy professor, Hebrew University "...The Final Redeemer will take the reader to the depths of the Messianic drama, the theosophical structure and messianic consciousness existing within Hassidism and the entire Jewish community..." Prof. Yoram Bilu, Israel Prize Laureate, Hebrew University "...Alon Dahan has provided us with a comprehensive work about the man he studied. The author delved into books and tractates that no researcher before him has included and has shared with us the Rebbe's visions and teachings." Guy Kantor, Journalist Dr. Alon Dahan is a lecturer of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2007, he was awarded the Schlomiuk Prize.
Download or read book The Final Redeemer written by Alon Dahan and published by Alon Dahan. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson served as Grand Rabbi or "Rebbe" of the Chabad Chassidic dynasty. Under his leadership, the previously small and exclusive Chassidic group expanded into a major force, whose influence was even felt in the non-Jewish world. A substantial portion of his disciples began to seriously contemplate whether he was the Messiah. "Dr. Alon Dahan's study on the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, is the most comprehensive, methodical and in-depth analysis yet written about this individual, who has served as a central figure in the spiritual world of twentieth century Jewry." Prof. Joseph Dan, Israel Prize Laureate, Hebrew University ..".Dr. Dahan's study is unique in its clarity and systematic as it explores and explains the foundations of Messianic spiritualism and its global, societal influence from its inception after World War II until today..." Prof. Rachel Elior, Jewish Philosophy professor, Hebrew University ..".The Final Redeemer will take the reader to the depths of the Messianic drama, the theosophical structure and messianic consciousness existing within Hassidism and the entire Jewish community..." Prof. Yoram Bilu, Israel Prize Laureate, Hebrew University ...Alon Dahan has provided us with a comprehensive work about the man he studied. The author delved into books and tractates that no researcher before him has included and has shared with us the Rebbe's visions and teachings. Guy Kantor, Journalist Dr. Alon Dahan is a lecturer of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2007, he was awarded the Schlomiuk Prize.
Download or read book The Messiah of Brooklyn written by Avrum M. Ehrlich and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anticipating the Redemption written by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Messiah of Brooklyn written by Mark Avrum Ehrlich and published by Ktav Publishing House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Messiah of Brooklyn: Understanding Lubavitch Hasidism Past and Present is the story of the expansion of the Habad - Lubavitch school of hasidic Judaism under the leadership of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Schneerson was the last in a dynasty of hasidic leaders who came to New York after the Holocaust. From a small band of refugees, he built a large, powerful international community of rabbis, emissaries and fervent disciples who committed their lives to his teachings and armed with his instructions lay the foundations of Habad's messianic agenda. With a strong focus on outreach amongst Jews as a necessary condition for the "redemption", it succeeded in becoming the most influential religious group in the last fifty years of modern Judaism." "Many Lubavitch Hasidim viewed Rabbi Schneerson as the messiah and because of this, his death brought about a crisis of faith and leadership within the movement. The change in the movement, the factions and splinter groups developing variant theologies to explain the death of their messiah are subjects explored by Ehrlich together with the socio-religious undercurrents composing the movement's identity."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book From Exile to Redemption written by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and published by . This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outstanding compilation of insights into various aspects of the theme of exile and redemption. These brief excerpts and Chasidic stories illuminate the purpose of exile, the role of the individual Jew in bringing its end, and the indicators of the Redemption in our generation.
Download or read book I Await His Coming Every Day written by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maimonides' well-known 13 principles of faith includes the statement: "I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Mashiach. Even if he delays, I will wait every day for him to come." What does it mean to "wait every day?" Going to the primary source, Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, this book assembles selected translations alongside the vocalized Hebrew text and presents them together with five discourses of the Lubavitcher Rebbe that illuminate these chapters. The discourses deal with the function of Mashiach, the nature of the Biblical sources that foretell the Redemption, prophecies concerning Mashiach, and an explanation of "the ultimate good of the era of the Redemption."
Download or read book Open Secret written by Elliot R. Wolfson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994) was the seventh and seemingly last Rebbe of the Habad-Lubavitch dynasty. Marked by conflicting tendencies, Schneerson was a radical messianic visionary who promoted a conservative political agenda, a reclusive contemplative who built a hasidic sect into an international movement, and a man dedicated to the exposition of mysteries who nevertheless harbored many secrets. Schneerson astutely masked views that might be deemed heterodox by the canons of orthodoxy while engineering a fundamentalist ideology that could subvert traditional gender hierarchy, the halakhic distinction between permissible and forbidden, and the social-anthropological division between Jew and Gentile. While most literature on the Rebbe focuses on whether or not he identified with the role of Messiah, Elliot R. Wolfson, a leading scholar of Jewish mysticism and the phenomenology of religious experience, concentrates instead on Schneerson's apocalyptic sensibility and his promotion of a mystical consciousness that undermines all discrimination. For Schneerson, the ploy of secrecy is crucial to the dissemination of the messianic secret. To be enlightened messianically is to be delivered from all conceptual limitations, even the very notion of becoming emancipated from limitation. The ultimate liberation, or true and complete redemption, fuses the believer into an infinite essence beyond all duality, even the duality of being emancipated and not emancipated--an emancipation, in other words, that emancipates one from the bind of emancipation. At its deepest level, Schneerson's eschatological orientation discerned that a spiritual master, if he be true, must dispose of the mask of mastery. Situating Habad's thought within the evolution of kabbalistic mysticism, the history of Western philosophy, and Mahayana Buddhism, Wolfson articulates Schneerson's rich theology and profound philosophy, concentrating on the nature of apophatic embodiment, semiotic materiality, hypernomian transvaluation, nondifferentiated alterity, and atemporal temporality.
Download or read book Lubavitcher Messianism written by Simon Dein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1994 the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Schneerson, died leaving no successor. For many years his followers had maintained that he was Moshiach -the Jewish Messiah and would usher in the Redemption. After his death Lubavitch divided into two opposing groups. While some messianists hold that the Rebbe died but is to be resurrected as the messiah, others hold that he is still alive, but concealed. The anti-messianists maintain that the Rebbe could have been Moshiach if God had willed it, but they disagree vehemently that as such he could come back from the dead. Using ethnographic data obtained by the author through twenty years of fieldwork, this book presents a social-psychological account of Lubavitcher Messianism and moves beyond the typical scholarly preoccupation with 'belief' and 'dissonance' to examine the role of rhetoric, religious experience and ritual in maintaining counterintuitive convictions. Through examining the parallels between early Christianity and messianism in Lubavitch this book provides a comprehensive perspective for examining messianism generally
Download or read book From Exile to Redemption written by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosmic questions such as the purpose of exile, the role of the individual Jew in ending it, and the indicators of the redemption in our generation, are illuminated in this ... compilation by ... chassidic insights. This ... work was undertaken in response to a call by the ... Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson Shlita, that Jews everywhere escalate the process of Redemption by (among other things) studying subjects related to the coming of Mashiach, in both the legal and the mystical dimensions of the Torah. Accordingly, the reader is here provided with a ... translation of classic teachings on these subjects by the Rebbe and by earlier leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch chassidic movement. -Book jacket.
Download or read book Resurrection written by Michael L. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What made Jesus the Messiah? This book will teach you the Jewish roots of your faith and help you gain a fresh new perspective on the resurrection of Jesus. In 1994, after one of the greatest rabbis of the twentieth century died at the age of ninety-two, his followers began to proclaim him as the Messiah. They expected him to rise from the dead and even come again. Is this possible? Could a deceased rabbi be the Messiah? In this fascinating book, biblical scholar Michael L. Brown, PhD, takes you on a captivating journey beginning in Brooklyn, New York, where this famous rabbi died in 1994, then back through Jewish history, looking at little-known Jewish beliefs about the Messiah, potential Messiahs that emerged in each generation, and teachings about the reincarnated soul of the Messiah. Dr. Brown then looks at the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus from his unique perspective as a Messianic Jew, demonstrating why Jesus' resurrection uniquely confirms that He alone is the promised Messiah. This page-turner is for everyone who is interested in the Jewish roots of our faith, everyone fascinated by Jewish tradition, and everyone wanting to gain a fresh new perspective on the resurrection of Jesus the Messiah. It is also a great witnessing tool for Christians who want to share the good news of Yeshua the Messiah with their Jewish friends"--
Download or read book The Rebbe the Messiah and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference written by David Berger and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history, an indictment, a lament, and an appeal, focusing on the messianic trend in Lubavitch hasidism. It records the shattering of one of Judaism's core beliefs and the remarkable equanimity with which the standard-bearers of Orthodoxy have allowed it to happen. This is a development of striking importance for the history of religions, and it is an earthquake in the history of Judaism. David Berger describes the unfolding of this historic phenomenon and proposes a strategy to contain it.
Download or read book There Is No Messiah And You re It written by Robert N. Levine and published by Jewish Lights Publishing. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coming of the messiah is anticipated by millions of people of many faiths as the ultimate salve for our spiritual lives and as a way to finally make the world a better place. There Is No Messiah?and You?re It examines the history of messianic hope and anticipation, its evolution in Judaism and Jewish history, and other interpretations of ?messiah? that shed new light on what it means to usher in the ?kingdom of God.? This fascinating book is our call to see ourselves as the fulfillment of, not the anticipators of, messianic change. Drawing from the Bible, the Talmud, rabbinic sources, and modern-day scholars, Rabbi Levine provides a fascinating understanding of messianic vision, as well as false messiahs throughout Jewish history. He challenges the powerful idea of messiah that has survived in the heart and ethos of the Jewish people, and reveals the immediacy of messianic presence in our day.
Download or read book End of Days written by Wendell G. Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering religious traditions ranging from Buddhism to Christianity to Zoroastrianism and modern apocalyptic movements such as Arun Shinrikyo and the Branch Davidians, this book addresses prophesied end of days from a breadth of perspectives and includes material on often-neglected themes and genres. End of Days: An Encyclopedia of the Apocalypse in World Religions describes apocalyptic writings in the world's major religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. The cross-referenced entries address ancient traditions—Zoroastrianism, as one example—as well as modern apocalyptic movements, such as Arun Shinrikyo, the Branch Davidians, and the Order of the Solar Temple. This book's broad scope offers coverage of overlooked traditions, such as Mayan Apocalyptic, Norse Apocalyptic, Native American eschatological literatures, and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Readers seeking detailed information on the eschatological and apocalyptic movements and proponents of End Times can reference entries about individuals such as Harold Camping, Jerry Falwell, David Koresh of the Brand Davidians, and James Jones and the People's Temple. This single-volume encyclopedia also contains numerous historical entries on subjects such as the Great Disappointment, the Great Awakening periods of religious revival, Joachim of Flora, the Maccabean Revolt, and the Plymouth Brethren. The influence of apocalyptic ideas far outside the realm of religion itself is documented through entries on film, including well-known modern movies such as The Hunger Games and Apocalypse Now, literature by writers such as Dante, and works of fine art like Wagner's Götterdämmerung. The inclusion of entries related to literature, film, and other art forms further attests to the wide-ranging social influence of belief in the end of days.
Download or read book There Is No Messiah and You re It written by Rabbi Robert N. Levine and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A challenge to each of us to take personal responsibility for repairing the world. "We are taught that every one of us is created in the divine image. All of us can be holy through imitating God.... So, you don’t have to look around or look away. You don’t have to wait for someone to come and do what you were put on this earth to do in the first place. Judaism empowers you, as one of God’s anointed ones, to do more than you ever dreamed possible." —from Chapter 1 The coming of the messiah is anticipated by millions of people of many faiths as the ultimate salve for our spiritual lives and as a way to finally make the world a better place. There Is No Messiah...and You’re It examines the history of messianic hope and anticipation, its evolution in Judaism and Jewish history, and other interpretations of “messiah” that shed new light on what it means to usher in the “kingdom of God.” This fascinating book is our call to see ourselves as the fulfillment of, not the anticipators of, messianic change. Drawing from the Bible, the Talmud, rabbinic sources, and modern-day scholars, Rabbi Robert Levine provides us with an accessible, fascinating understanding of messianic vision, as well as false messiahs throughout Jewish history. He challenges the powerful idea of messiah that has survived in the heart, soul, and ethos of the Jewish people, and reveals the immediacy of the messianic presence in our day—in our own lives. Compelling and controversial, There Is No Messiah...and You’re It inspires us to embody the noblest values of Jewish tradition—prayer, study, mitzvoth, and tzedakah—and embrace our own messianic potential to heal the world.
Download or read book Proceeding Together written by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Doctrine of the Messiah in Medieval Jewish Literature written by Joseph Sarachek and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A Solid Scholarly Book About The Messianic Views Of The Greatest Scholars And Thinkers Of The Middle Ages, Saadia, Gaon, Rash, Judah Halevi, To Name A Few.
