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Without Bounds illuminates the life of the mysterious Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana, a Jewish healer who worked in the Western High Atlas region in southern Morocco and died there in the early 1950s. Impressed by his healing powers and shamanic virtuosity, Moroccan Jews are intrigued by his lifestyle and contacts with the Muslim and the demonic worlds that dangerously blurred his Jewish identity. Based on interviews with Moroccan Jews conducted in the late 1980s, Without Bounds proposes multiple readings of Wazana's life. Yoram Bilu re-creates the influences and important moments in Wazana's life and evaluates his character from psychological and anthropological perspectives. Human- and demon-bound, holy and impure, Jew and Muslim, old and young, Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana dissolved the boundaries of the major social categories in Morocco and integrated them into his identity.
Wazana, Yáacov. --- Ṿazanah, Yaʻaḳov --- Wazana, Ya'aqov --- ואזנה, יעקב --- Medicine, Popular. --- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric --- Rabbis --- Magic medicine --- Medicine, Mystic --- Medicine, Occult --- Medicine, Spagiric --- Mystic medicine --- Occult medicine --- Spagiric medicine --- Spagyric medicine --- Alchemy --- Alternative medicine --- Magic --- Superstition --- Medicine --- Biography: religious & spiritual
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Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was the charismatic leader of the Chabad Hasidic movement and its designated Messiah. Yet when he died in 1994, the messianic fervor he inspired did not subside. Through traditional means and digital technologies, a group of radical Hasidim, the Meshichistim, still keep the Rebbe palpably close—engaging in ongoing dialogue, participating in specific rituals, and developing an ever-expanding visual culture of portraits and videos. With Us More Than Ever focuses on this group to explore how religious practice can sustain the belief that a messianic figure is both present and accessible. Yoram Bilu documents a unique religious experience that is distinctly modern. The rallying point of the Meshichistim—that the Rebbe is "with us more than ever"—is sustained through an elaborate system that creates the sense of his constant and pervasive presence in the lives of his followers. The virtual Rebbe that emerges is multiple, visible, accessible, and highly decentralized, the epicenter of a truly messianic movement in the twenty-first century. Combining ethnographic fieldwork and cognitive science with nuanced analysis, Bilu documents the birth and development of a new religious faith, describing the emergence of new spiritual horizons, a process common to various religious movements old and new.
Hasidism --- Book Keywords: Messianism. --- Chabad. --- Meshichist cosmology. --- Meshichist phenomenology. --- Meshichistim. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. --- media studies. --- virtuality. --- Chasidism --- Hassidism --- Jewish sects --- Schneerson, Menachem Mendel, --- Cult. --- Schneersohn, Menaḥem Mendel, --- Admor M. ha-M., --- Admor Melekh ha-Mashiaḥ, --- Admor mi-Lyubaṿiṭsh, --- Admor Sheliṭa, --- Lubavitcher Rebbe, --- Lyubaṿiṭsh, Admor sheliṭa mi-, --- M. ha-M., --- Melekh ha-Mashiaḥ, --- Menaḥem Mendl, --- Rabi mi-Lyubaviṭsh, --- Schneerson, Menachem M. --- Schneerson, Mendel, --- Sheneʼursohn, Menaḥem Mendel, --- Shneersohn, Menahem Mendel, --- Shneerson, Menakhem Mendel, --- Shneʼorsohn, Menaḥem, --- Shneursohn, Menahem Mendel, --- Li︠u︡bavichskiĭ Rebe --- אדמו׳׳ר, --- אדמו״ר --- אדמו״ר שליטא, --- אדמו״ר שליט״א --- אדמו״ר, --- אדמו״ר מלך המשיח --- אדמו״ר מליובאאיטש --- אדמו״ר מליובאווטש --- אדמו״ר מליובאוויטש --- רבי --- רבי מליובאוויטש --- רבי, --- שנאורסאהן, מנחם מענדל --- שניארסאהן, מנחם מנדל, --- שניארסאהן, מנחם מענדל --- שניאורסאנן, מנחם מענדל --- שניאורסאן, מנחם --- שניאורסאן, מנחם מענדל --- שניאורסאהן, מנחם מנדל --- שניאורסאהן, מנחם מנדל, --- שניאורסאהן, מנחם מענדל --- שניאורסאהן, מנחם מענדל, --- שניאורסאהן, מנחם מענדל בן לוי יצחק --- שניאורסאהן, מנחם מענדך, --- שניאורסאהן, יוסף יצחק, --- שניאורסן, מנחם מענדל --- שניאורסון, מנחם מנדל --- שניאורסון, מנחם מנדל, --- שניאורסון, מנחם מענדל --- שניאורסוהן, מנחם מענדל --- שניאורדאהן, מנחם מענדל --- מנחם מנדל שניאורסאהן --- מנחם מנדל שניאורסון --- מנחם מענדל שניאורסאהן --- מנחם מענדל, --- הרבי מליובאוויטש --- Любавичский Ребе --- Шнеерсон, Менахем-Мендел
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The astonishing revival of saint worship in contemporary Israel was ignited by Moroccan Jews, who had immigrated to the new country in the 1950's and 1960's. The Saints' Impresarios charts the vicissitudes of four new domestic shrines, each established by Moroccan-born men and women in a peripheral development town, following an exciting revelation involving a saintly figure. Each of the case studies discussing the life stories of the "saint impresarios" elaborates on a distinctive theme: dreams as psychocultural triggers for revelation; family and community responses to the initiative; female saint impresarios as healers; and the alleviation of life crises through the saint's idiom. The initiatives are evaluated against the historical background of Jews in Morocco and the sociopolitical and cultural changes in present-day Israeli society. The original Hebrew edition garnered the coveted Bahat Prize (Haifa University Press) for best academic book in 2006. For readers interested in Israel and Jewish Studies, folk religion and mysticism, cultural and psychological anthropology, and Moroccan Jews.
Zaddikim --- Jews, Moroccan --- Shrines --- Moroccan Jews --- Jewish saints --- Tsadikim --- Tzaddikim --- Zadikim --- Hasidism --- Saints --- Social life and customs. --- Hasidim
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This volume explores various processes associated with constructing what has variously been called "The Holy Land," "Eretz Israel," "Zion," Palestine," or "Israel." The contributors focus on ways the landscapes of Israel figure in creating and recreating the identity, presence, and history of groups living there. The book critiques the assumptions lying at the base of various spatial practices related to Zionism. It does this through both a theoretical examination and a focus on hitherto little explored phenomena such as pilgrimages of Israelis to their (or their relatives') native lands abroad, the establishment of Jewish saints' tombs in Israel, the design of Kibbutz museums, country hikes, and conceptions of territory in mixed (Jewish-Arab) communities.
Jewish shrines --- Land use --- National characteristics, Israeli --- Sacred space --- Zionism --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A6 --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Holy, The --- Religion and geography --- Israeli national characteristics --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Shrines --- Jews --- Zionist movement --- Jewish nationalism --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Politics and government --- Restoration --- National Characteristics, Israeli --- Israel --- Sacred Space --- Social Science --- Religion --- History --- National characteristics, israeli --- Social science
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International relations. Foreign policy --- Social geography --- Israel
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