Your Word is Fire: The Hasidic Masters on
Contemplative Prayer, edited and translated by Arthur Green and Barry W. Holtz,
present short passages from Hasidic masters and their books.
The main thrust of this slim volume is for
use: this is not an academic book, but to be employed during moments of prayer
of mediation. As the authors explain in
the introduction:
“The mystical ecstasy of the Hasidism flow from the
rediscovery that God is present in all of human life. All things and all moments are vessels that
contain his presence.”
This book fits nicely with Rabbi Arthur Green’s long
career of taking Hasidic elements of worship, and fitting them into
contemporary Jewish needs. For Green,
this concerns God’s radical immanence in the world.
The passages in this book are a compendium of such
expressions of God, and are meant to facilitate such a view.
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