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
Journal	Religious Studies
Volume	96
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412514000298
State	Published - 4 Aug 2014
Externally published	Yes

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