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Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic
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Jewish Exponent
10-13-1995
Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic.
By Moshe Idel, State University of New York Press, 438 pages, $24.95 paperback.
Moshe Idel, one of today's leading scholars of Kabalah, begins this book with a quote from Bertrand Russell: "Every advance in a science takes us farther away from the crude uniformities which are first observed, into greater differentiation of antecedent and consequent, and into a continually wider circle of a...
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