Shalom,
I am forwarding a description of two important new translations of classic
Jewish works by my colleague Rabbi Yaacov David Shulman. Details are below.
Shabat Shalom, Zvi Leshem
Jewish Spiritual Growth, by Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, translator Yaacov
David Shulman (Dot Letter Word Press, Israel, 2017).
Jewish Spiritual Growth is a translation into English of one of
the great Jewish spiritual treasures of the twentieth century, which was
miraculously rescued after the Holocaust. This book was written by Rabbi
Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, one of the great Hasidic masters of the twentieth
century, living in pre-World War II Warsaw (author of the famed Aish Kodesh).
Seeking to revitalize the Hasidic movement, Rabbi Shapira wrote a number of
books discussing visualization, contemplation and emotion in the life of a
person as an individual and as a member of a spiritual community. Jewish
Spiritual Growth (Hakhsharat Ha’avreikhim) offers a theory and practicum of
Hasidism with unparalleled clarity and eloquence. (Tragically, Rabbi Shapira
was killed by the Nazis in 1943.)
Professor Shaul Magid describes this book as “a tour de force
focused on developing one’s emotions and spiritual core, unprecedented in
modern Hasidic literature.” He goes on to state that “Yaacov David Shulman’s
felicitous and textured translation retains the flavor of Shapira’s traditional
Hasidic approach while opening this text to an English-speaking audience
interested in how one Hasidic master understood Hasidism as a path toward inner
growth and, eventually, toward prophecy. An important contribution to Hasidic
literature in translation.”
The translator has authored, translated and edited fifty books of
Jewish spiritual and literary value. His work may be viewed at
shulman-writer.com<http://shulman-writer.com> and
dotletterword.com<http://dotletterword.com>. He can be reached at
yacovda...@gmail.com<mailto:yacovda...@gmail.com>.
Available from Amazon books.
Lights of Teshuvah, by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook, translator Yaacov David
Shulman (Dot Letter Word Press, Israel, 2017).
Lights of Teshuvah is a new translation of Orot Hateshuvah, the
quintessential work of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935), first Chief Rabbi
of the Holy Land and one of the most important Jewish thinkers of the twentieth
century.
Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik calls this book “Rav Kook’s most
philosophically developed work,” and points out its “most significant
innovation as being that teshuvah (‘return’) is not connected to sin per se but
is comprised of man’s returning to himself, returning to his source.”
Rabbi Chanan Morrison calls this translation “more accurate and
closer to the original Hebrew than Ben Zion Bokser’s 1978 translation (in the
Classics of Western Spirituality series).”
And Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb adds that it “captures the
language, the poetry and the beauty of Rav Kook’s Hebrew.”
The translator has authored, translated and edited fifty books of
Jewish spiritual and literary value. His work may be viewed at
shulman-writer.com<http://shulman-writer.com> and
dotletterword.com<http://dotletterword.com>. He can be reached at
yacovda...@gmail.com<mailto:yacovda...@gmail.com>.
Available from Amazon books.
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