The Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman by Nehemia Polen

March 16, 2017 adminJudaism

By Nehemia Polen

The Holy hearth: the lessons of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto is a trip into the brain and spirit of a chic hasidic grasp in his moments of pleasure and tranquillity, and later, in his time of private and communal disaster. The reader takes a voyage into the wealthy and variegated international of twentieth-century Hasidism in Poland, an international destroyed via the Holocaust. it is a quantity encouraged through a deeply delicate and poetic person of religion who's grappling with an unfolding catastrophe. whereas the Holocaust has engendered a voluminous physique of non secular and philosophical writings trying to probe the problems this unfathomable interval increases in all their enormity, almost all have been written after the warfare, whilst a modicum of distance and mirrored image is feasible. Contemporaneous diaries and chronicles written because the occasions have been taking place pay attention to the descriptive bills of the horrors. The Holy Fire, although, engages a sustained theological mirrored image and stands on my own as a longer non secular reaction from in the center of darkness itself whereas the disaster occurs, and is, accordingly, a unprecedented rfile and an mind-blowing own achievement.

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