The Legend of the Baal-Shem
All positive religion rests on an enormous simplification of the manifold and wildly engulfing forces that invade us: it is the subduing of the fullness of existence. All myth, in contrast, is the expression of the fullness of existence, its image, its sign; it drinks incessantly from the gushing...
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All positive religion rests on an enormous simplification of the manifold and wildly engulfing forces that invade us: it is the subduing of the fullness of existence. All myth, in contrast, is the expression of the fullness of existence, its image, its sign; it drinks incessantly from the gushing fountains of life.—Martin Buber, from the introduction
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780691043890 (0691043892)
Publish date: April 17th 1995
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages no: 223
Edition language: English
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