Inner Religion in Jewish Sources: A Phenomenology of Inner Religious Life and Its Manifestation from the Bible to Hasidic Texts

Ron Margolin

Published by Academic Studies Press 2020

Inner Religion in Jewish Sources

A Phenomenology of Inner Religious Life and Its Manifestation from the Bible to Hasidic Texts

Ron Margolin

In the series Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644694305

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About this book

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of inner life in the Jewish sources. Addressing the issue from the perspective of comparative religion, it emphasizes the commonality of processes of interiorization by suggesting an innovative angle in the study of religion. In doing so, it sheds new light on the inner aspect of Jewish religious life.

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Margolin Ron :

Ron Margolin is Professor of Jewish thought and the study of religion at Tel Aviv University and Senior Researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is the author of many studies in Hasidism, modern Jewish thought, secular Judaism and comparative religion. Margolin’s Hebrew book The Human Temple: Religious Interiorization and the Structuring of Inner Life in Early Hasidism will soon be published in English by De Gruyter Press.

Ron Margolin is a professor of Jewish thought and the study of religion at Tel Aviv University and Senior Researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is the author of many studies in Hasidism, modern Jewish thought, secular Judaism, and comparative religion. Margolin’s Hebrew book The Human Temple: Religious Interiorization and the Structuring of Inner Life in Early Hasidism will soon be published in English by De Gruyter Press.

Reviews

“[Inner Religion in Jewish Sources] … is an informative handbook with abounding materials… [Margolin’s] independent spirit, which, by the way, surpasses the scope of phenomenology and also applies itself to the domain of the research of Jewish mysticism … is one of the features that render this book a good read… What this book offers us is a comprehensive reader, a neat elaboration of all the human psyches, as well as human endeavors to search for connections with God.”

–Yutong Li, Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte, KU Leuven, Phenomenological Reviews

“This book is a brilliant and exciting leap forward in the study of religion—Judaism in general and Hasidism in particular. Through his inspired use of the phenomenological method, Margolin leads us to Hasidism’s fundamental idea, shedding new light on its sources, and providing a key to a religious world as yet unknown. His unique recourse to phenomenological hermeneutics and the comparative study of religions make this a groundbreaking study, opening up an unusual and valuable field of research.”

—Avi Sagi, Professor of Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University

“Ron Margolin offers us a tour de force of Jewish thought. His immense erudition is put at the service of a fundamental rereading of Jewish religion. Margolin presents us with a view of interiorization as a fundamental modality of the religious life, in Judaism as well as in other religions. If spiritual seekers to date have tended to gravitate to the Kabbalah in quest of spiritual experience and interiority, Margolin demonstrates the breadth and depth of religious interiority and how deeply embedded it is in all aspects of Jewish religion. This is a sophisticated theoretical book for scholars of religion. Its message is popular and can speak to spiritual seekers and to whoever cares deeply about Judaism and its enduring relevance.”

—Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Director, the Elijah Interfaith Institute

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One: Ritual and Custom
Chapter 1. Ritual Interiorization and Intent for Commandments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Part Two: Emotion, Sensation, and Experience
Introduction: The Meaning of Ecstatic Experience and Mystical Experience in the Study of Religion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter 2. Prophecy, Dreams, and Other Paranormal Experiences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Chapter 3. Introspective Contemplation and Inward Focusing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Part Three: Thinking about the Inner
Introduction: Interiorization in Religious Thought Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Chapter 4. The Conceptual Interiorization of Myth and Law Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Chapter 5. Existential Aspects of Inner Religious Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Chapter 6. Epistemological Interiorization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447
Afterword: The Immanent Testimony to the Transcendental Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	511
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	543
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	585
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	591
Index of Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	596

Language: English
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 620
Keywords: Religious Life; Interiorization; Intentionality; Epistemology; Inward Focusing; Hasidism; Jewish Phenomenology; Immanence; Existentialism; Ritual; Judaism; spirituality; belief; sociology; psychology; personal experience; private worship; prayer; philosophy; God

eBook

Published: May 18, 2021
ISBN: 9781644694305