God and his imaginary friends: A Hassidic metaphysics

Samuel Lebens

doi:10.1017/S0034412514000298

God and his imaginary friends: A Hassidic metaphysics

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What happens when you assume that the world is a dream in the mind of God, or that the world's history is a story that God is spinning? Focusing on the role that this assumption plays in the thought of Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner (1801-1854), at least as it is understood by Rabbi Herzl Hefter, I argue that this assumption generates interesting solutions to old riddles in the philosophy of religion and interesting insights into the nature of religious language.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	183-204
Number of pages	22
Journal	Religious Studies
Volume	51
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412514000298
State	Published - 30 Jun 2015
Externally published	Yes

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