If read carefully and with due patience, Sacred Fire is one of those books that burns through the world, and leaves it changed.ĭon Seeman is assistant professor of anthropology at Emory University. Worch's translation and introductory essay are very good. The work will be of interest to scholars of religion as well as literary theorists and theorists of human emotion. Rabbi Shapira's wartime writing struggled to reframe the "problem of suffering" in phenomenological terms, as a quest for ritual efficacy rather than discursive "meaning" alone. I first heard about this book in a podcast. Clearly, this is a book that will help to revise our view of Holocaust victims' inner lives, but that is not all. Sacred Fire: A Vision For A Deeper Human And Christian Maturity by Ronald Rolhheiser /. The Hebrew manuscript was recovered in 1960 but has only now been made available to readers in English. Its author, Kalonymos Shapira, was a Hasidic mystic and communal leader interned in the Warsaw Ghetto from 1939 until his deportation and murder in 1943. These are some of the themes that emerge in Sacred Fire, a collection of homiletic and interpretive essays thought to constitute the last work of traditional Jewish scholarship ever composed on Polish soil. A woman who "allows" herself to be broken by suffering sends a protest message to God about the nature of human frailty.
God's pain would destroy the world were it not mediated by sacred textuality. Deborah Miller (Jerusalem: Jason Aronson, 2000), 388 pp. Rabbi Kalonymos Kalmish Shapira, Sacred Fire, trans. Contents: Far Away and Long Ago, The Erotic Motive in Primitive Religion Prim. Reviews usually contain a paragraph on the. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. What sets George Washingtons Sacred Fire apart from all previous literary works on this man for the ages, is the exhaustive fifteen years of Dr. and never bound prayer - books, but the only books allowing at any time the sacred fire to go they are. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Focusing on themes of new-age spirituality, book reviews on Spirituality and Practice are short and lack detail. All of these titles are compiled in the book Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books, which was published by QBR: The Black Book Review magazine in. of Prayer - books, ' embroidering of has.
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