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Expanding the Boundaries of the Holy: Hasidic Devotion, Sacred Speech, and Early Modern Jewish Thought.

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Title: Expanding the Boundaries of the Holy: Hasidic Devotion, Sacred Speech, and Early Modern Jewish Thought.
Authors: Mayse, Ariel Evan
Source: Jewish Social Studies. Fall2019, Vol. 25 Issue 1, p45-101. 57p.
Subjects: Hasidim, Jewish theology, Anxiety, Genealogy, Rabbinical seminaries
Abstract: This article advances a multistage argument regarding the position of language in early modern Jewish thought, suggesting that a significant number of early Hasidic sources advocate a striking redefinition of the so-called holy tongue (leshon ha-kodesh) as the sacred potential of all human language. The writings of three Jewish thinkers on leshon ha-kodesh—Kalonymous Kalman Epstein of Kraków (1754–1823), Moses Mendelssohn (1729–86), and Moshe Sofer of Pressburg (1782–1839)—reveal much about responses, including anxiety, influence, and confident rejection, to changes in the world around the authors and illustrate how similar reactions emerged in very different places. Rather than seeking to chart direct influence, this article attempts to isolate and interrogate the genealogies of discourse regarding sacred speech, thus reading Hasidic sermons, maskilic writings, and rabbinic texts in multiple intellectual and historical contexts to reveal their full richness and innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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