Physical Description
xvii, 232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Origins
A Viennese boyhood
Austria under Hitler
Diamond-cutting & hasidim in Antwerp
War : French internment camps
Revelations in Marseilles
Voyage to America
Encountering the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe
The making of a hasid
A fledgling hasidic rabbi : outreach in New Haven
Raising the klippot in Rochester, New York
My own pulpit in Fall River, Massachussetts
Caribbean travels : voodoo & mitzvah missions
Widening horizons : from New Bedford to Boston University
Jewish innovation in Manitoba
Adventures with Catholic monasticism
My first trip to the Holy Land
Qumran, USA : my plan for Jewish communality
Hasidic counseling : new explorations
Psychedelics with Timothy Leary
My friend Thomas Merton & the ecumenical quest
Walks with Abraham Maslow
Abraham Heschel : my mentor & friend
Leaving Chabad : the fallout from my Washington, DC lecture
The San Francisco counter-culture & neo-hasidism
Moving to Philadelphia : the founding of P'nai Or
Epilogue : whither Jewish renewal?
Gerald Heard, my "Irish rebbe"
Rabbi Heschel Matt
Breakthroughs in Milwaukee
The Dalai Lama
Unfulfilled projects.
Other Authors/Editors
Hoffman, Edward, 1951-
ISBN
9781442213272
1442213272 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781442213296 (ebook)
1442213299 (ebook)
Notes
Includes index.
Origins -- A Viennese boyhood -- Austria under Hitler -- Diamond-cutting & hasidim in Antwerp -- War : French internment camps -- Revelations in Marseilles -- Voyage to America -- Encountering the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe -- The making of a hasid -- A fledgling hasidic rabbi : outreach in New Haven -- Raising the klippot in Rochester, New York -- My own pulpit in Fall River, Massachussetts -- Caribbean travels : voodoo & mitzvah missions -- Widening horizons : from New Bedford to Boston University -- Jewish innovation in Manitoba -- Adventures with Catholic monasticism -- My first trip to the Holy Land -- Qumran, USA : my plan for Jewish communality -- Hasidic counseling : new explorations -- Psychedelics with Timothy Leary -- My friend Thomas Merton & the ecumenical quest -- Walks with Abraham Maslow -- Abraham Heschel : my mentor & friend -- Leaving Chabad : the fallout from my Washington, DC lecture -- The San Francisco counter-culture & neo-hasidism -- Moving to Philadelphia : the founding of P'nai Or -- Epilogue : whither Jewish renewal? -- Gerald Heard, my "Irish rebbe" -- Rabbi Heschel Matt -- Breakthroughs in Milwaukee -- The Dalai Lama -- Unfulfilled projects.
