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Faierstein provides a compelling and illuminating introduction to the life and works of Menahem Mendel of Kotsk--a widely quoted (more often misquoted) Hasidic master--and a scholarly compilation of sayings attributed to the Kotsker Rebbe. This vibrant evocation of a seminal, complex, fascinating, and challenging figure is an admirable and valuable contribution to the history of Hasidism. --Stephen D. Benin, Founding Director of the Judaic Studies Program, University of Memphis This accessible new volume presents a collection of teachings and epigrams attributed to one of the most interesting, vibrant, and enigmatic Hasidic thinkers of the nineteenth century. --Ariel Evan Mayse, Stanford University

"""Faierstein provides a compelling and illuminating introduction to the life and works of Menahem Mendel of Kotsk--a widely quoted (more often misquoted) Hasidic master--and a scholarly compilation of sayings attributed to the Kotsker Rebbe. This vibrant evocation of a seminal, complex, fascinating, and challenging figure is an admirable and valuable contribution to the history of Hasidism. --Stephen D. Benin, Founding Director of the Judaic Studies Program, University of Memphis ""This accessible new volume presents a collection of teachings and epigrams attributed to one of the most interesting, vibrant, and enigmatic Hasidic thinkers of the nineteenth century."" --Ariel Evan Mayse, Stanford University"

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Morris M. Faierstein is a Research Associate at the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland. His books include, All is in the Hands of Heaven: The Teachings of Rabbi Mordecai Joseph Leiner of Izbica (1989, revised edition, 2005); Jewish Mystical Autobiographies: Book of Visions and Book of Secrets (1999); From Safed to Kotsk: Studies in Kabbalah and Hasidism (2013).

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