Ariel Evan Mayse
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1108758 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ariel Evan Mayse |
| PRENOMES | Ariel Evan |
| SOBRENOME | Mayse |
| ASSINATURA | MAYSE A E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0963-3205 |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
It’s not (just) about content
Feral Thinking
The contemporary American university largely operates as an agent of domestication, tasked more with enforcing the social and economic order than with expanding the horizons of possibility. The dawn of the Anthropocene, however, demands that we reconceive of the humanities not as self-sufficient, hierarchical, or divided away from other modes of seeking knowledge but as core to what human being and responsibility ought to mean in the more-than-hu…
Mystifying Kabbalah
Hasidism, Suffering, and Renewal
Reconsiders the legacy of an important Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator who confronted the dilemmas of modernity after World War I and whose writing constitutes a unique testimony to religious experience and its rupture in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Pre-Modern Insights for Post-Modern Privacy
This article makes the counterintuitive argument that the millennia-old approach of Jewish law to regulating surveillance, protecting communications, and governing collection and use of information offers important frameworks for protecting privacy in an age of big data and pervasive surveillance. The modern approach to privacy has not succeeded. Notions of individual “rights to be let alone” and “informational self-determination” offer little de…
As the Deep River Rises
The present essay seeks to offer a conceptual framework for grappling with climate change from within the sources of Jewish law ( halakhah ), a discourse rooted in the Hebrew Bible but developed in the rabbinic literature of Late Antiquity and then in medieval and modern codes and commentaries. Halakhah reflects deeply-held intellectual, theological, ontological, and sociological values. As a modus vivendi, rabbinic law—variously interpreted by J…
Renewal and Redemption
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924–2014) was a creative thinker and dynamic teacher who inspired a spiritual awakening among North American Jews grounded in his reinterpretation of Hasidism and Kabbalah. Critical to this religious renaissance was Schachter-Shalomi’s reenvisioning of Jewish law. This study identifies three stages in his writings, revealing him to be a complicated, iconoclastic religious thinker whose relationship to traditional …
Speaking Infinities
A New Hasidism
A New Hasidism
Setting the Table Anew
This essay interrogates the legal discourse of Shulḥan ha-Tahor , a curious—and curiously understudied—work of Hasidic halakhah written by Rabbi Yitzḥak Ayzik Yehudah Yehiel Safrin of Komarno. The book is, at heart, a systematic reformulation of Jewish law in light of Kabbalah, Hasidism, and the quest for personal mystical experience. Shulḥan ha-Tahor offers a rare case study for the interface of mystical experience, Hasidic devotional values, an…
The Voices of Moses
The subject of revelation appears with striking frequency in the writings and sermons of the early Hasidic masters. Their attempts to reimagine Sinai and to redefine its spiritual significance were key to their theological project. The present article examines the theophany at Sinai as presented in the teachings of three important Hasidic leaders: Menaḥem Naḥum of Chernobil, Ze’ev Wolf of Zhitomir, and Levi Yitsḥak of Barditshev, all of whom were…
Religious Education and Sacred Study in the Teachings of Rabbi Yitshak Hutner
Rabbi Yitshak Hutner (1906-1980) was a remarkable scholar, an enigmatic religious intellectual and a charismatic teacher. Drawing upon his public discourses and his written letters, I argue that Hutner's vocabulary-which remained rooted almost entirely in the vocabulary of traditional Talmudism-afforded him a ready garment in which to clothe a syncretic educational theory, which combines Hasidic approaches to spiritual instruction and remakes the…
Territories and Textures
The present study offers a focused analysis of the complicated interface of Yiddish and Hebrew in Hasidic preaching and writing, exploring the unique crevasse between written and oral cultures that Hasidism has occupied since the eighteenth century. We argue that scholarship on Hasidism has not fully appreciated the linguistic element of the remarkable success of this socioreligious movement that has shaped the course of Jewish modernity. This la…
Second Thoughts
This study explores an important Hasidic manuscript rediscovered among the papers of Abraham Joshua Heschel at Duke University. The text, first noted by Heschel in the 1950s, is a collection of sermons by the famed tzaddik Judah Aryeh Leib Alter of Ger (d. 1905). These homilies are significant because they were transcribed by one of his disciples, in many cases capturing them in the original Yiddish. Comparing this alternative witness to Alter’s …
Hasidic Halakhah
This paper offers a novel perspective regarding the interface between law, mysticism, and social reality. The inner turn that characterizes Hasidism is often understood through a binary model defined by the Christian Hebraists, and followed by many academic scholars, in which law and spirit exist in intractable tension. We suggest, however, that in the specific contexts of Hasidism, nomos, eros, and mystical piety often merged in distinctive ways…
The Soul of Scholarship
Shai Held, Abraham Joshua Heschel
Journal Article Shai Held, Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence Get access Shai Held, Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013) 352 + xiii pp. Index. Ariel Evan Mayse Ariel Evan Mayse Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 35, Issue 2, May 2015, Pages 233–242,…
Pillar of Prayer
The printed versions of early Hasidic teachings are a marbled composite of several inexorably entangled layers of translation. The homilies or personal statements of advice were delivered in Yiddish, the vernacular of the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, yet the vast majority was committed to writing only in Hebrew. Anything preserved for us in these books is thus a second-generation translation, and the contemporary scholar has great diffic…
Hasidic Halakhah
This paper offers a novel perspective regarding the interface between law, mysticism, and social reality. The inner turn that characterizes Hasidism is often understood through a binary model defined by the Christian Hebraists, and followed by many academic scholars, in which law and spirit exist in intractable tension. We suggest, however, that in the specific contexts of Hasidism, nomos, eros, and mystical piety often merged in distinctive ways…
As the Deep River Rises
The present essay seeks to offer a conceptual framework for grappling with climate change from within the sources of Jewish law ( halakhah ), a discourse rooted in the Hebrew Bible but developed in the rabbinic literature of Late Antiquity and then in medieval and modern codes and commentaries. Halakhah reflects deeply-held intellectual, theological, ontological, and sociological values. As a modus vivendi, rabbinic law—variously interpreted by J…
Pillar of Prayer
The printed versions of early Hasidic teachings are a marbled composite of several inexorably entangled layers of translation. The homilies or personal statements of advice were delivered in Yiddish, the vernacular of the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, yet the vast majority was committed to writing only in Hebrew. Anything preserved for us in these books is thus a second-generation translation, and the contemporary scholar has great diffic…
Shai Held, Abraham Joshua Heschel
Journal Article Shai Held, Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence Get access Shai Held, Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013) 352 + xiii pp. Index. Ariel Evan Mayse Ariel Evan Mayse Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 35, Issue 2, May 2015, Pages 233–242,…
Second Thoughts
This study explores an important Hasidic manuscript rediscovered among the papers of Abraham Joshua Heschel at Duke University. The text, first noted by Heschel in the 1950s, is a collection of sermons by the famed tzaddik Judah Aryeh Leib Alter of Ger (d. 1905). These homilies are significant because they were transcribed by one of his disciples, in many cases capturing them in the original Yiddish. Comparing this alternative witness to Alter’s …
Hasidic Halakhah
This paper offers a novel perspective regarding the interface between law, mysticism, and social reality. The inner turn that characterizes Hasidism is often understood through a binary model defined by the Christian Hebraists, and followed by many academic scholars, in which law and spirit exist in intractable tension. We suggest, however, that in the specific contexts of Hasidism, nomos, eros, and mystical piety often merged in distinctive ways…
The Soul of Scholarship
Territories and Textures
The present study offers a focused analysis of the complicated interface of Yiddish and Hebrew in Hasidic preaching and writing, exploring the unique crevasse between written and oral cultures that Hasidism has occupied since the eighteenth century. We argue that scholarship on Hasidism has not fully appreciated the linguistic element of the remarkable success of this socioreligious movement that has shaped the course of Jewish modernity. This la…
A New Hasidism
A New Hasidism
Setting the Table Anew
This essay interrogates the legal discourse of Shulḥan ha-Tahor , a curious—and curiously understudied—work of Hasidic halakhah written by Rabbi Yitzḥak Ayzik Yehudah Yehiel Safrin of Komarno. The book is, at heart, a systematic reformulation of Jewish law in light of Kabbalah, Hasidism, and the quest for personal mystical experience. Shulḥan ha-Tahor offers a rare case study for the interface of mystical experience, Hasidic devotional values, an…
The Voices of Moses
The subject of revelation appears with striking frequency in the writings and sermons of the early Hasidic masters. Their attempts to reimagine Sinai and to redefine its spiritual significance were key to their theological project. The present article examines the theophany at Sinai as presented in the teachings of three important Hasidic leaders: Menaḥem Naḥum of Chernobil, Ze’ev Wolf of Zhitomir, and Levi Yitsḥak of Barditshev, all of whom were…
Religious Education and Sacred Study in the Teachings of Rabbi Yitshak Hutner
Rabbi Yitshak Hutner (1906-1980) was a remarkable scholar, an enigmatic religious intellectual and a charismatic teacher. Drawing upon his public discourses and his written letters, I argue that Hutner's vocabulary-which remained rooted almost entirely in the vocabulary of traditional Talmudism-afforded him a ready garment in which to clothe a syncretic educational theory, which combines Hasidic approaches to spiritual instruction and remakes the…
Speaking Infinities
Hasidism, Suffering, and Renewal
Reconsiders the legacy of an important Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator who confronted the dilemmas of modernity after World War I and whose writing constitutes a unique testimony to religious experience and its rupture in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Pre-Modern Insights for Post-Modern Privacy
This article makes the counterintuitive argument that the millennia-old approach of Jewish law to regulating surveillance, protecting communications, and governing collection and use of information offers important frameworks for protecting privacy in an age of big data and pervasive surveillance. The modern approach to privacy has not succeeded. Notions of individual “rights to be let alone” and “informational self-determination” offer little de…
As the Deep River Rises
The present essay seeks to offer a conceptual framework for grappling with climate change from within the sources of Jewish law ( halakhah ), a discourse rooted in the Hebrew Bible but developed in the rabbinic literature of Late Antiquity and then in medieval and modern codes and commentaries. Halakhah reflects deeply-held intellectual, theological, ontological, and sociological values. As a modus vivendi, rabbinic law—variously interpreted by J…
Renewal and Redemption
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924–2014) was a creative thinker and dynamic teacher who inspired a spiritual awakening among North American Jews grounded in his reinterpretation of Hasidism and Kabbalah. Critical to this religious renaissance was Schachter-Shalomi’s reenvisioning of Jewish law. This study identifies three stages in his writings, revealing him to be a complicated, iconoclastic religious thinker whose relationship to traditional …
Mystifying Kabbalah
Feral Thinking
The contemporary American university largely operates as an agent of domestication, tasked more with enforcing the social and economic order than with expanding the horizons of possibility. The dawn of the Anthropocene, however, demands that we reconceive of the humanities not as self-sufficient, hierarchical, or divided away from other modes of seeking knowledge but as core to what human being and responsibility ought to mean in the more-than-hu…
It’s not (just) about content
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