Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism

by Eli Rubin

Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity provides a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of Chabad Hasidism through the Kabbalistic concept of ṣimṣum. 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 ṣimṣum ultimately...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503642070
• ISBN13: 9781503642072
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 400 Pages