Unleashing the richness, meaning and beauty of classic Chassidic texts in a readable and flowing English
Chassidic
Classics
Kedushas Levi
For the very first time, ArtScroll Mesorah presents the classic treatise Kedushas Levi, Rabbi Levi Yitzchok’s fundamental Chassidic masterpierce, in readable and flowing English. The holy Kedushas Levi was the great defender of mankind, and his thoughts are relevant to all who seek greater purpose in life and closer and more meaningful human and Divine relationships.
The Kedushas Levi deals in its entirety with general issues related to God’s worship—love and awe, devotion and faith. It is a book that is meant to rouse the spirit. The Kedushas Levi encompasses the entirety of Chassidic thought in its broadest form: the worship of the heart and the introspection of the mind, seeing the Torah not as a distant doctrine but as the “Torah of man.” It is the essence of Chassidism, encompassing the great gamut of the movement’s vibrancy. It is an entire world in one work.
Upwards:
In Heaven and On Earth
With an introduction by Liel Leibovitz
This is a book of stories about the greatest Chassidic master you’ve never heard of: Rabbi Mordechai Leifer of Nadvorna, known as Reb Mordchele.
What made him great? Some famous rabbis were holy seers, mystics who can see the future, perceive souls with perfect clarity, converse with animals, and see many more layers of reality than those visible to the ordinary eye. Others were great communal leaders wholly focused on the fate of their flock here on earth.
Reb Mordechele was both. He fed the hungry with one hand, and parted the heavens with the other.
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The stories collected here, culled for the first time from a wide array of verifiable sources, represent the first definitive account of this extraordinary man’s life. But the stories collected here aren’t really stories at all: They’re spiritual lifelines, designed to help all of us, but particularly those of us who aren’t familiar with Judaism’s sacred texts, to find new and inspiring ways to reconsider every aspect of how we live and what we live for.
Take this book, then, as an instruction manual for the soul, and read as much or as little of it as you’d like to find inspiration of your own.
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“Each of us,” the Rebbe taught, “is a vessel. The question is not whether we shine—but what light we choose to hold.”
Ma’amer Mordechai
The Ma’amer Mordechai is the seminal volume of classical commentary of the Nadvorna Chassidic dynasty. The volume contains short Torah thoughts of the Rebbe R’ Mordechai’s vertlach that were formulated and conveyed with relevance to followers who lived, largely, in poor villages throughout eastern foothills of the Carpathian Mountains and the northwest Mamaroush region in the mid- to late 1800s.
To Come: In Planning
Sefer Baal Shem Tov
Be'er Mayim Chaim
Ohev Yisrael
Bas Eiyin
Ner Yisroel
Zera Kodesh
Yismach Moshe
Divrei Chaim
Ma'or Veshemesh
Degel Machane Efraim
Me'or Einayim