Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity Katie Walker Grimes Beginning with the Lewis and

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Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity Katie Walker Grimes Beginning with the Lewis andKabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity provides a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of Chabad Hasidism through the Kabbalistic concept of ? im? um. The onset of modernity, Eli Rubin argues, was heralded by this startling idea: existence itself is predicated on a self inflicted "rupture" in the infinite assertion of divinity. Centuries of theoretical disputations concerning ? im? um ultimately morphed into religious and social schism.