Arthur Green, a modern master of Jewish thought, explores the life and thought of Rabbi Levi Yits?ak, one of the towering, formative figures in early Hasidism. In Green’s lucid presentation, Levi Yits?ak emerges as a mystic, but also a realist who faces the fact that we live in a world seemingly not guided by divine will. Boldly, Levi Yitshak claims that a righteous individual can actually implant a new will within God. A fascinating, profound book.
Arthur Green
Arthur Green was founding dean and is recently retired as rector of the Rabbinical School and the Irving Brudnick Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Religion at Hebrew College. He is professor emeritus at Brandeis University, where he occupied the distinguished Philip W. Lown Professorship of Jewish Thought. His books include Tormented Master: A Life of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav, The Heart of the Matter: Studies in Jewish Mysticism and Theology, A New Hasidism: …
