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January 20, 2016

A 19th-Century Mystical Theology of Judaism

Translating Ḥayyim of Volozhin’s kabbalistic treatise.

In his treatise Nefesh ha-Ḥayyim, the outstanding Russian rabbinic scholar and educator Ḥayyim of Volozhin (1749–1821) presented a kabbalistic theology of Judaism. In his review of Avinoam Fraenkel’s English translation of this work, Alan Brill writes:

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