Valdir Jalles Jalles itibaren Sayung, Demak Regency, Central Java, Endonezya
** spoiler uyarısı ** Bu yüzden beni bütün kitap boyunca koltuğumun kenarında tuttum. Her ne kadar Adora ve Amma'nın doğası biraz daha uzun süre gizli tutulsa da.
Büyük hayal gücüne sahip sıcak kalpli bir kitap - hava durumu ve yiyecek - daha iyi ne olabilir?
Too sad and I didn't like any of the characters. But well written otherwise.
As a woman trying to come up with my own definitions of what womanhood and feminity are this book gave interesting perspective on the role of women.... for me though, nothing conclusive.
Quest for Authenticity is in my opinion less a guide to the religious thought of Reb Simhah Bunim than it is a guide to the late Michael Rosen's ideas about spiritual pedagogy. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. He's identified a thread of hasidic thought that for its time took large strides toward the destabilization of power between rebbe and hasid. By focusing specifically upon the challenges to that relationship within the short-lived Peshishchan lineage he's able to give voice to his own thoughts about mentoring. Taken as Rosen's personal philosophy the book is highly valuable. The world has lost a man of incredible compassion. In addition to the insights he's gained through a decidedly neo-hasidic recontextualization of hasidic thought, his appendix on his method for engaging with hagiographic texts offers a non-reductionist alternative to rejecting hagiographies altogether in favor of "harder" sources.