Imagining Holiness

Imagining Holiness

 

By: Justin Jaron Lewis

 

This part of this study deals in a general way with the books of Berger and Michelson and with some issues in scholarship on hasidic tales. Readers who are primarily interested in the stories themselves are welcome to skip ahead and begin with part 3. A traditional way of beginning a learned Jewish discourse is to pose a series of questions that will then be answered.1My choice to study the books from which the stories above were selected raises a number of questions: Why study stories at all? Why study hasidic stories? Why study books of hasidic stories, and why these books in particular? What are the values implicit in hasidic stories? Why Study Stories? In the last few decades the telling of stories has become a major subject of study in disciplines as diverse as anthropology, history, legal studies, medicine, politics, psychology, and many others. [download]

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