That's funny, you don't look Buddhist
Sylvia Boorstein
Explores the relationship between Jewish and Buddhist traditions and discusses the reasons why some Jews are drawn to Buddhism and become practicing Buddhists.
Read Time: ~2.9 hr
Selections
by Martin Buber (1998)
About this book
Here the author completes his great lifework of the re-creation and interpretation of Hasidism, the popular communal mysticism that arose and flourished among the Jews of Eastern Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Shows that the God of the Bible and of Hasidism is the loving God whose love includes the demand that man make real his humanity through bringing every aspect of his life into his relation to God.
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Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreSelections Lead Character
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