Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller
| Titel: | Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller : portrait of a seventeenth-century rabbi / Joseph M. Davis |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Oxford : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2004 |
| Umfang: | XV, 302 Seiten : Karten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Littman library of Jewish civilization |
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| ISBN: | 1874774862 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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| Lokale Klassifikation: | 37 8 K 1921 ; 37 11 M ; 23 8 P 472 ; 23 11 M ; 26 15 M ; 31 3 F ; 2 H 1533 |
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- List of Abbreviations
- p. xiii
- Note on Transliteration and Place Names
- p. xiv
- Map: The World of Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller
- p. xvi
- Introduction
- p. 1
- A Rabbinic Life
- p. 1
- The Six Pillars
- p. 4
- Philosophy and Mysticism in Ashkenazi Culture
- p. 5
- Social Rabbis
- p. 7
- The Politics of Seventeenth-Century Jews
- p. 9
- Persecutions and Plagues
- p. 11
- Satan in Goray
- p. 13
- Part I
- The Ladder of Ascension 1578-1617
- 1.
- The Orphan
- p. 19
- The Orphan
- p. 19
- Wallerstein, 1578
- p. 20
- Marriage into a Prominent Family
- p. 23
- The Maharal of Prague
- p. 26
- The New Curriculum
- p. 31
- The Examination of the World
- p. 35
- 2.
- The Exile of a Philosopher
- p. 39
- The Flowering of Philosophical Study among Ashkenazi Jews
- p. 39
- Joseph ben Isaac Halevi and Givat hamoreh
- p. 44
- 'A Dwarf on the Shoulders of a Giant'
- p. 45
- The Plague of 1611
- p. 47
- The Exile of a Philosopher
- p. 48
- 3.
- Two Kabbalists
- p. 51
- Isaiah Horowitz and the 'Repudiation of Philosophy'
- p. 51
- Heller as Kabbalist
- p. 54
- On Magic, Magidim, and the Individual Self
- p. 56
- On Esotericism, Non-Kabbalistic Judaism, and the Purposes of Prayer
- p. 59
- In Defence of Philosophy
- p. 63
- 4.
- Tosafot yom tov
- p. 66
- The Maharal and the Revival of the Mishnah
- p. 66
- On Rashi, Tosafot, and the Seventy Faces of Torah
- p. 70
- The Exegetical Experience
- p. 79
- Letter to Worms, 1616
- p. 82
- 5.
- Jews and Non-Jews
- p. 83
- The Nikolsburg Wine Controversy of 1616
- p. 83
- On Non-Jewish Bread and Non-Jewish Books
- p. 87
- Humanizing the Non-Jews
- p. 92
- Against Trinitarianism, 1619
- p. 96
- On Unity
- p. 97
- Part II
- The Trial 1618-1630
- 6.
- Prague in Wartime
- p. 101
- The Defenestration of Prague, 1618
- p. 101
- Letter to Vienna, 1619
- p. 101
- Fears
- p. 104
- Prague, 1620: Habsburg Loyalist
- p. 106
- On Providence and Miracles
- p. 109
- Jacob Bassevi
- p. 112
- The Plague of 1625
- p. 113
- 7.
- The Chief Rabbi
- p. 117
- 'Who are the Kings? The Rabbis.'
- p. 117
- Rabbinical Activism and Educational Reform
- p. 119
- 'Delights of the King'
- p. 121
- Against the Shulhan arukh
- p. 122
- On Humility
- p. 126
- Interpretations and Decisions
- p. 127
- The Constitutions of the Jews
- p. 129
- The Title Page
- p. 131
- Letter to Frankfurt, 1628
- p. 132
- 8.
- The Trial
- p. 136
- The Arrest
- p. 136
- In the Prison of Vienna
- p. 138
- Deliverance
- p. 142
- Explanations
- p. 146
- On Politics
- p. 152
- Again on Non-Jews
- p. 153
- A Day of Remembrance
- p. 155
- Part III
- Change and Defeat 1631-1654
- 9.
- The Sermon
- p. 159
- From Prague to Poland
- p. 159
- 'The Lessening of the Moon'
- p. 161
- Midrashic Natural History
- p. 164
- On the New Astronomy
- p. 166
- On Change
- p. 168
- The Maharal and the Illusion of Self
- p. 171
- The Acceptance of Suffering
- p. 172
- 10.
- Attacks and Retreats
- p. 175
- To the Edge of Europe
- p. 175
- Again on the Shulhan arukh
- p. 178
- On Honour
- p. 181
- The Ban on the Purchase of Rabbinical Office
- p. 183
- The Permission to Publish Kabbalah
- p. 189
- 11.
- A Rabbi's Autobiography
- p. 192
- The Coronation, 1644
- p. 192
- Deliverance Narrative and Autobiography
- p. 193
- On Silence
- p. 197
- Family
- p. 199
- On Himself
- p. 201
- 12.
- The Massacres of 1648
- p. 205
- The Twentieth Day of Sivan
- p. 205
- Fasting and Silence
- p. 206
- Two Kinds of Messianism
- p. 209
- Demonizing the Cossacks
- p. 211
- The Absence of the King
- p. 213
- 'You have become a plague'
- p. 219
- Letter to Checiny, 1651
- p. 220
- Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller's Extant Works and Writings
- p. 225
- Bibliography
- p. 232
- Index of Personal Names
- p. 275
- Index of References to Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller
- p. 282
- Index of Subjects
- p. 287
