Collected EssaysPub Date : 2020-11-30DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781904113997.003.0008
H. Soloveitchik
{"title":"Methodological Issues","authors":"H. Soloveitchik","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781904113997.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781904113997.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"WHILE I have dealt with Sefer Ḥasidim from time to time, the leading scholar of German Pietism of this generation has unquestionably been Ivan Marcus. His work Piety and Society: The Jewish Pietists of Medieval Germany made a considerable impression when it appeared in 1981. It was and still is widely cited; indeed, one might say without exaggeration that it has, over the years, achieved semi-canonical status....","PeriodicalId":431302,"journal":{"name":"Collected Essays","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117300742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Collected EssaysPub Date : 2020-11-30DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781904113997.003.0003
H. Soloveitchik
{"title":"Piety, Pietism, and German Pietism: Sefer Ḥasidim I and the Influence of Ḥasidei Ashkenaz","authors":"H. Soloveitchik","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781904113997.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781904113997.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter investigates the the differences between Sefer Ḥasidim I (sections 1–152) and Sefer Ḥasidim. No less striking than the absence of retson ha-Borè (the Will of the Creator), asceticism, and other defining themes of the Pietist movement is the parallel absence in SH I of exempla, which abound in the other sections of Sefer Ḥasidim. Over the course of time, different editors appended SH I to various collections of material of Sefer Ḥasidim, always taking care that SH I opened the collection, ensuring that the reader would first encounter not the startling tenets of Ḥasidei Ashkenaz but rather page after page of conventional pietistic discourse on love of God, fear of God, humility, and so on. It is remarkable to what extent SH I and those passages in Sefer Ḥasidim that were in the spirit of SH I shaped the historical image of Ḥasidei Ashkenaz. Study of the influence of Sefer Ḥasidim on the subsequent literature of Ashkenaz, whether halakhic or ethical, shows that not only were the new ritual world of retson ha-Borè or the book's radical social teachings wholly without influence, but also that they went literally unnoted.","PeriodicalId":431302,"journal":{"name":"Collected Essays","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129251624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Collected EssaysPub Date : 2020-11-04DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv19cw9w0.20
H. Soloveitchik
{"title":"Printing and the History of Halakhah","authors":"H. Soloveitchik","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv19cw9w0.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv19cw9w0.20","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter assesses the impact of the printing, in the eighteenth century, of the ḥiddushim of Bet Midrasho shel ha-Ramban. First, it opened anew the halakhic discussion. With the infusion of thousands of doctrines of Ramban, Rashba, and Ritva, and the hosts of new positions registered in the Shitah Mekubbetset, rabbinical scholars were now required to reopen closed issues and weigh the established rulings against the claims of the new doctrines that were streaming into the system. They had to scour the Talmud to see whether there were passages that supported some of the new doctrines and to assess whether the new views of Ramban's school contained juridical insights that set past rulings at naught. Second, printing introduced a new level of halakhic thinking into the legal discourse. The solutions advanced by the Bet Midrasho shel ha-Ramban are more suasive than those of the Tosafists.","PeriodicalId":431302,"journal":{"name":"Collected Essays","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124582506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Collected EssaysPub Date : 2020-11-04DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv19cw9w0.10
H. Soloveitchik
{"title":"Two Notes on the Commentary on the Torah of R. Yehudah he-Ḥasid","authors":"H. Soloveitchik","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv19cw9w0.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv19cw9w0.10","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter assesses R. Yehudah he-Ḥasid's Commentary on the Torah (1976). R. Yehudah claimed that several verses were written after the time of Moses. R. Moshe Feinstein, the leading halakhic decisor (posek) of the time, had apparently been shown an advance copy of choice sections of the book and declared the statement of non-Mosaic authorship to be heretical. As it was inconceivable that R. Yehudah he-Ḥasid was a heretic, the work was clearly a forgery, or certain passages had been cunningly inserted into his blameless composition to better infiltrate the bastions of the faithful. That the composition is that of R. Yehudah he-Ḥasid there can be little question; there are too many citations from this commentary, specifically attributed to him, in medieval writings to leave room for doubt. Yet it is equally true that the work does attribute several verses of the Pentateuch to later writers.","PeriodicalId":431302,"journal":{"name":"Collected Essays","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127952300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Collected EssaysPub Date : 2020-11-04DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv19cw9w0.5
{"title":"Three Themes in Sefer Ḥasidim","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv19cw9w0.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv19cw9w0.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":431302,"journal":{"name":"Collected Essays","volume":"437 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134388959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Collected EssaysPub Date : 2020-11-04DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv19cw9w0.19
H. Soloveitchik
{"title":"The Riddle of Me’iri’s Recent Popularity","authors":"H. Soloveitchik","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv19cw9w0.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv19cw9w0.19","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the recent popularity of R. Menaḥem ha Me'iri of Perpignan. It is commonly thought that the works of R. Menaḥem ha Me'iri were first published in the twentieth century. This is correct if one is referring to the series of Me'iri publications that Avraham Sofer produced from the huge, six-volume manuscript in the Parma Palatina Library, and which contains the Bet ha-Beḥirah on most of the tractates of the Talmud. However, a glance at any bibliography will immediately reveal that the Bet ha-Beḥirah on many tractates was already published in the eighteenth century. Some parts of it were printed in the eighteenth century, a few more in the nineteenth; but they were swiftly forgotten. In fact, the revival of his work did not begin in the 1930s: initially Sofer's publications had little impact. Only in the latter half of the twentieth century did they become popular, and various scholars moved quickly to put out the Bet ha-Beḥirah on other tractates of the Talmud and to publish new editions of the works that Sofer had already published, and these editions have been repeatedly reprinted. Why the centuries-long indifference and why the revival of the past sixty years? The chapter answers these questions.","PeriodicalId":431302,"journal":{"name":"Collected Essays","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123444005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Collected EssaysPub Date : 2020-11-04DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv19cw9w0.11
H. Soloveitchik
{"title":"Topics in the Ḥokhmat ha-Nefesh","authors":"H. Soloveitchik","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv19cw9w0.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv19cw9w0.11","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on Ibn 'Ezra's Ḥokhmat ha-Nefesh. Conflicting reports are to be found in the Ḥokhmat ha-Nefesh as to the origin of the soul. At times it is described as originating from the holy spirit via a process of inbreathing. On other occasions it is said to have been lit from the flames of the Kavod or of the heavenly throne. Other passages speak vaguely of its having been created from the place of the heavenly spirit. Whether any of these processes, or all of them, are genuine acts of creation or only emanations cannot be determined from the text. A prominent place in the Ḥokhmat ha-Nefesh is occupied by demuyot, mirror-images of man fashioned at the beginning of Creation and which stand in endless array before the Kavod, drawing their sustenance from the absorption of the heavenly light that streams forth from the Kavod, and in turn transferring this vitality to their earthly counterparts. The demut is a counter-shape and plays no role in the religious experience of Ḥasidei Ashkenaz.","PeriodicalId":431302,"journal":{"name":"Collected Essays","volume":"66 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126163445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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