Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller : Portrait of a Seventeenth-Century Rabbi.

This detailed biography shows how a rabbinic leader at a key point in European Jewish history responded to the challenges and ferment of his time.

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Main Author: Davis, Joseph
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Language:English
Published: London : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, The, 2005.
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505 0 |a Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Note on Transliteration and Place Names; Map: The World of Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller; Introduction; A Rabbinic Life; The Six Pillars; Philosophy and Mysticism in Ashkenazi Culture; Social Rabbis; The Politics of Seventeenth-Century Jews; Persecutions and Plagues; Satan in Goray; Part I: The Ladder of Ascension 1578-1617; 1. The Orphan; The Orphan; Wallerstein, 1578; Marriage into a Prominent Family; The Maharal of Prague; The New Curriculum; The Examination of the World. 
505 8 |a 2. The Exile of a PhilosopherThe Flowering of Philosophical Study among Ashkenazi Jews; Joseph ben Isaac Halevi and Givat hamoreh; 'A Dwarf on the Shoulders of a Giant'; The Plague of 1611; The Exile of a Philosopher; 3. Two Kabbalists; Isaiah Horowitz and the 'Repudiation of Philosophy'; Heller as Kabbalist; On Magic, Magidim, and the Individual Self; On Esotericism, Non-Kabbalistic Judaism, and the Purposes of Prayer; In Defence of Philosophy; 4. Tosafot yom tov; The Maharal and the Revival of the Mishnah; On Rashi, Tosafot, and the Seventy Faces of Torah; The Exegetical Experience. 
505 8 |a Letter to Worms, 16165. Jews and Non-Jews; The Nikolsburg Wine Controversy of 1616; On Non-Jewish Bread and Non-Jewish Books; Humanizing the Non-Jews; Against Trinitarianism, 1619; On Unity; Part II: The Trial 1618-1630; 6. Prague in Wartime; The Defenestration of Prague, 1618; Letter to Vienna, 1619; Fears; Prague, 1620: Habsburg Loyalist; On Providence and Miracles; Jacob Bassevi; The Plague of 1625; 7. The Chief Rabbi; 'Who are the Kings? The Rabbis.'; Rabbinical Activism and Educational Reform; 'Delights of the King'; Against the Shulhan Arukh; On Humility; Interpretations and Decisions. 
505 8 |a The Constitutions of the JewsThe Title Page; Letter to Frankfurt, 1628; 8. The Trial; The Arrest; In the Prison of Vienna; Deliverance; Explanations; On Politics; Again on Non-Jews; A Day of Remembrance; Part III: Change And Defeat 1631-1654; 9. The Sermon; From Prague to Poland; 'The Lessening of the Moon'; Midrashic Natural History; On the New Astronomy; On Change; The Maharal and the Illusion of Self; The Acceptance of Suffering; 10. Attacks and Retreats; To the Edge of Europe; Again on the Shulhan Arukh; On Honour; The Ban on the Purchase of Rabbinical Office. 
505 8 |a The Permission to Publish Kabbalah11. A Rabbi's Autobiography; The Coronation, 1644; Deliverance Narrative and Autobiography; On Silence; Family; On Himself; 12. The Massacres of 1648; The Twentieth Day of Sivan; Fasting and Silence; Two Kinds of Messianism; Demonizing the Cossacks; The Absence of the King; 'You have become a Plague'; Letter to Checiny, 1651; Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller's Extant Works and Writings; Bibliography; Index of Personal Names; Index of References to Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller; Index of Subjects. 
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