The Revealed and Hidden Writings of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav : His Worlds of Revelation and Rectification.
Zvi Mark uncovers previously unknown aspects of Rabbi Nachman's spiritual world. The first section, Revelation, explores Rabbi Nachman's spiritual revelations, personal trials and spiritual experiments. Among the topics discussed is the powerful "Story of the Bread." The second s...
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Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents; Introduction; Part One: Revelation; Chapter One. The Test of Letter Combinations: The Mystical Initiation Ceremony that Rabbi Nachman Underwent, and its Echoes in Likutei Moharan; 1 Introduction; 2 The test of letter combinations as an initiation ceremony; 3 The messianic aspect; 4 From a vision to a Torah teaching; Chapter Two. "The Story of the Bread": Receiving the Torah; 1 Introduction; 2 Published text and manuscript; 3 "The Story of the Bread": Rabbi Naftali's manuscript and other manuscripts; 4 The provenance of the story and its chain of transmission.
- 5 Regarding the story6 The autobiographical element; 7 "Like Moses"; 8 From story to discourse: "Tefillah LeChavakkuk" (Likutei Moharan I 19); 9 States of consciousness: sleep, dream, vision, awakening, and wakefulness; 10 Concealment and its function; 11 Rabbi Nachman's spiritual level following the revelation; Chapter Three. The Stream of Mystical Consciousness: The Character of Mystical Experience and the Way that it is Shaped as Literature in "The Guest Who Came In"; 1 Circles of dissociation; 2 The root of the unfamiliar: yearnings for holiness.
- 3 The guest's explanation: bringing the mystical element to the forefront4 What was revealed to the householder's soul in flight; 5 The demonic contingency; 6 The character of the mystical experience and the way in which it is fashioned; 7 "The Guest Who Came In": the autobiographical element; 8 The way of mysticism: from "The Story of the Bread" to "The Guest Who Came In"; Part Two: Rectification; Introduction: The Enterprise of Rectifications.
- Chapter Four. The Formulation of the Universal Rectification, the Rectification for a Nocturnal Emission, and the Pilgrimage to Rabbi Nachman's Grave-and their Connection to Bratslavian Messianic Fervor1 Introduction; 2 The chronology; 3 The universal rectification; 4 The rectification for a nocturnal emission; 5 The universal rectification and the rectification for a nocturnal emission; 6 The pilgrimage to Rabbi Nachman's grave, and new objectives in reciting the ten psalms; 7 The connection between the rectifications and messianic fervor.
- Chapter Five. The Booklet of Tests and Rabbi Nachman's Practice of not Avoiding Tests1 "He desired tests"; 2 Kuntres HaNisyonot: The Booklet of Tests; 3 The tests; 4 Rabbi Avraham ben Rabbi Nachman Chazan on the link between Rabbi Nachman's erotic tests and his unique, messianic status; Chapter Six. "The Story of the Armor": More from the Bratslav Archives Containing Suppressed Texts; 1 Introduction; 2 Manuscripts; 3 "The Story of the Armor"; 4 About the story; 5 On the semantic field: what is the link between the armor and a nocturnal emission?; 6 The impetus to esotericism.