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Burnt books : Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and Franz Kafka
Title:
Burnt books : Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and Franz Kafka
Author:
Kamenetz, Rodger, 1950-
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Nextbook : Schocken, [2010]

©2010
Physical Description:
361 pages ; 20 cm.
Language:
English
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 -- Burnt books -- 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.
ISBN:
9780805242577
Format :
Book