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Nine Gates: The Chassidic Mysteries

Nine Gates: The Chassidic Mysteries

Langer, Jiri

Paperback

Religious BiographiesJudaismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0718896300
ISBN13: 9780718896300
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Published: Mar 31 2022
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
A wonderful collection of Chassidic tales from Central Europe, providing a fascinating introduction to this mystical Jewish tradition.

In 1913, just before the outbreak of the First World War, a 19-year-old Czech Jew named Jiri Langer left his assimilated family to live in the remote village of Belz, Galicia (now Ukraine). He had gone to live under the Chassidic (or Hasidic) Rokeach dynasty, a line of Rabbis that survives to this day. Nine Gates is the record of Langer's time amongst these isolated Chassidic mystics of Eastern Galicia, and a window into their world. Langer tells of their enthusiasm, their simple faith, their ecstasies, their austerities, their feasts, their wonder-working Holy Rabbis and their esoteric wisdom. Most of all, he recounts a collection of shrewd and earthy folk tales told by the holy men who ruled these little spiritual kingdoms for generation after generation.

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