Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity Katie Walker Grimes Designed for upper level undergraduate

Designed for upper level undergraduate

conservative women have too often been overlooked

as she's drawn closer and closer to the secret societies and crackpot philosophers that haunt the city's abandoned warehouses and defunct train depots

and Jennie Hodgers (aka Private Albert D

Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity Katie Walker Grimes Designed for upper level undergraduateKabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity provides a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of Chabad Hasidism through the Kabbalistic concept of ? im? um. The onset of modernity, Eli Rubin argues, was heralded by this startling idea: existence itself is predicated on a self inflicted "rupture" in the infinite assertion of divinity. Centuries of theoretical disputations concerning ? im? um ultimately morphed into religious and social schism.