The Mystery of the Kaddish Its Profound Influence on Judaism,9781569803004

The Mystery of the Kaddish Its Profound Influence on Judaism

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ISBN13: 9781569803004
ISBN10: 1569803005
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-11-21
Publisher(s): Barricade Books Inc
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Summary

The Kaddish is considered by millions of Jews to be a special prayer one recites for the dead. It isn't. This book contains much new information as it traces the evolution of the Kaddish.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Prologue xv
A First Appraisal
3(19)
Forever and To All Eternity
22(9)
Kaddish Melodies
31(4)
The Eternal Prayer
35(7)
Survival of the Kaddish Notwithstanding the Holocaust (Sho' ah)
42(3)
A Study of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdishev as a Chassidic Force
45(7)
Chassidic Customs and Thoughts in Memorializing the Deceased
52(9)
Ancillary Effects of the Kaddish
61(10)
Kaddish and Women
71(8)
Chassidism, Kaddish, and Kotzk
79(6)
Prophets, Mysticism, and Kaddish
85(6)
Yahrzeit and Yizkor: Christian Origins?
91(7)
Judaism and the Idea of Death
98(8)
The Psychological Dynamic to Death in Judaism
106(13)
Did the Crusades Give Birth to the Kaddish for the Common Man vis-a-vis the Elite?
119(15)
More on the Crusades and Kaddish
134(3)
The Jew as a Non-Citizen and the Church Synod
137(5)
The Church Synods
142(4)
The Crusades---Suffering Creates Prayer
146(4)
The Ghetto
150(3)
Blood Libel and the Massacre of Jews
153(6)
Black Death & Jewish ``Confession''
159(4)
The Expulsion from Spain
163(5)
Kaddish and the Concept of Death
168(4)
The Nature of Death
172(17)
Afterword 189(3)
Glossary 192(25)
Notes 217

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