![]() ![]() Previously unpublished materials by Carlebach and Schachter-Shalomi include an interview with Schachter-Shalomi about his decision to leave Chabad-Lubavitch and embark on his own Neo-Hasidic path. Zeitlin and Buber initiated a renewal of Hasidism for the modern world Heschel’s work is quietly infused with Neo-Hasidic thought Carlebach and Schachter-Shalomi re-created Neo-Hasidism for American Jews in the 1960s and Green is the first American-born Jewish thinker fully identified with the movement. The editors’ introductions and notes analyze each thinker’s contributions to Neo-Hasidic thought and influence on the movement. ![]() The thinkers reflect on the inner life of the individual and their dreams of creating a Neo-Hasidic spiritual community. This first-ever anthology of Neo-Hasidic philosophy brings together the writings of its progenitors: five great twentieth-century European and American Jewish thinkers-Hillel Zeitlin, Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Shlomo Carlebach, and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi-plus a young Arthur Green. ![]() Neo-Hasidism applies the Hasidic masters’ spiritual insights-of God’s presence everywhere, of seeking the magnificent within the everyday, in doing all things with love and joy, uplifting all of life to become a vehicle of God’s service-to contemporary Judaism, as practiced by men and women who do not live within the strictly bounded world of the Hasidic community. ![]()
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