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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 000
General Introduction 000
Biographical Introduction 000
A Note on Translation 000
A Note on the Absence of Gender Inclusive Language 000
Part 1. The Piety of Secrecy: Esotericism, Faith, and the Hasidic Construction of Origins 000
1. Retrieving the Origins of Kabbala: Gershon Henokh of Radzin's "Primordial Torah of Abraham" and Its Dialectical Disclosure 000
2. Re-Circumcising the Torah: The Synthesis of the Zohar and the Guide of the Perplexed and the Hasidic Reconstruction of Esotericism 000
3. "What Is Hasidism?": A Hasidic Search for Origins 000
Part 2. Hasidism and the Hermeneutical Turn: Reading Scripture against Itself 000
4. The Redemptive Foundation of Sin: A First Step in Recovering Determinism 000
5. Human Perfection and the Fulfillment of Abrahamic Religion: From Circumcision to Abraham's Death 000
6. Reconciliation and Fragmentation: The Second Rupture and the Final Stage of Exile 000
Part 3. The Law and its Discontents 000
7. In and Around the Law: Antinomianism and Mitzvot in Izbica/Radzin Hasidism 000
Conclusion 000
Notes 000
Bibliography 000
Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Hasidism, Hasidism Poland Izbica, Hasidism Poland Radzy�n Podlaski, Judaism and philosophy, Antinomianism, Reconciliation, Messianism