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An edition of Burnt books (2010)

Burnt books

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and Franz Kafka

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A dual portrait of Hasidic storyteller Rabbi Nachman and iconic writer Franz Kafka reveals unexpected parallels between their lives, tracing their respective writings about an illogical world and searches for spiritual meaning.

Publish Date
Publisher
Nextbook, Schocken
Language
English
Pages
361

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Table of Contents

The joke
The coffee mug
The waiting room : Wednesday, September 23, four days before Erev Rosh Hashanah, 2008
Kafka the kabbalist
Last request
Miraculous event
Wavering at the heights
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The burning bush and the thorns
Fire from the rebbe's mouth
Tales of the seventy faces
Kafka's last parable
Sealed in flame
To feel at home
Borispol airport : Thursday, September 25
Who by water, who by fire
The rabbi's son
In his father's house
Annihilation of the self
On the train to Kamenetz : Thursday evening, September 25
Hasidic parables
King and messenger
Uncertainty principle
Talmudic style
Dirty and pure
Blue light of dawn : Friday morning, September 26
Kafka, Buber, Nachman
Sleeping and awakening
A new kabbalah
Circus acts
The turkey prince
Movements of the soul
Aliyah
Rabbi Nachman's journey to Kamenetz
The narrow bridge : Friday morning, September 26
Kings
Rabbi Nachman's journey to the land of Israel
The big joker
Uman Uman : Sunday, September 28-Monday, September 29
Smallness : Monday afternoon, September 29, just before Erev Rosh Hashanah
Self-isolation : Monday afternoon, September 29, just before Erev Rosh Hashanah
The thin thread of metal, the ball of wax
Return of the coffee mug : Wednesday evening, October 1.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Series
Jewish encounters, Jewish encounters

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
296.8/332092, B
Library of Congress
BM755.N25 K35 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
361 p. ;
Number of pages
361

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24880174M
ISBN 10
0805242570
ISBN 13
9780805242577
LCCN
2010010120
OCLC/WorldCat
471793114

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