Hasidism and Modern Man [Paperback]

Martin Buber (Author), M. Friedman (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1988

Buber poetically interprets the central aspects of Hasidic life, offers a selection of sayings from Baal-Shem-Tov, and movingly recounts his personal path to Hasidism.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Text: English, German (translation)

Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Humanities Press International Inc.,U.S.; New edition edition (August 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0391035509
• ISBN-13: 978-0391035508
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,148,034 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars a very readable exposition of a particular philosophy, July 29, 2001

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Alan Rosenfelder (edgware, middlesex United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hasidism & Modern Man (Paperback)

Martin Buber recounts tales and parables of previous generations of central European hasidic Jewry to illuminate a life philosophy with appeal for today and tomorrow's interested generations.He communicates his vast love and respect for what he sees as a treasure trove of wisdom and insight into the human condition as found in hasidic lore.This book is very readable and speaks more directly to the reader without the dense philosophical phraseology which makes other of his books difficult to get into .I have heard criticism that one is actually hearing Martin Buber's humanistic philosophy of life with reference to his interpretation of hasidic folk culture.Be that as it may there is a universal self help appeal to this book.Martin Buber communicates the idea of humankind as consisting of free thinking individuals who can shape destiny,"every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique ,unprecedented and never recurring potentialities,and not the repetition of something another,and be it even the greatest,has already achieved"This is a book that might change the reader's life.

5.0 out of 5 stars The holy life - explained, December 9, 2005

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Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hasidism and Modern Man (Paperback)

It is Buber, who more than any other writer or thinker,made the works of Hasidism first known to the Western world. He found in their lives of devoutedness to God, in their holy simplicity a message for Modern Man.

In this work Buber outlines the principles of Hasidism, and provides us a picture of a whole way, not simply of seeing holiness, but of living in Holiness in the world.