Hava Tirosh-Samuelson's Books

Between Worlds

The Life and Thought of Rabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon

By: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

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Between Worlds

The Life and Thought of Rabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon

By: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

It is a work of sound scholarship dealing with an interesting historical figure and his unique cultural world. The author focuses correctly on the transition from Italian to Ottoman Jewish culture in the life of David Messer Leon and reveals much about the continuities and discontinuities between both societies. He nicely fuses social and intellectual history, and uses a life to illuminate a number of interesting and important cultural trends among early modern Jews, particularly the integration of kabbalah and philosophy, Humanism and Thomism. The presentation of the symbiotic nature of Jewish culture with contemporary intellectual trends and the appropriation of Christian theological strategies by a Jewish thinker to explain Judaism make this study a fascinating one.

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SUNY Press

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079140448X

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9780791404485

Happiness in Premodern Judaism

Virtue, Knowledge, and Well-Being

By: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

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Happiness in Premodern Judaism

Virtue, Knowledge, and Well-Being

By: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

It is not common to think that Jews were interested in happiness or that Judaism has anything to say about happiness. On the contrary, the concept of happiness was a central concern of Jewish thinkers. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson shows that rabbinic Judaism regarded itself primarily as a prescription for the attainment of happiness, and that the discourse on happiness captures the evolution of Jewish intellectual history from antiquity to the seventeenth century. These claims make sense if one understands happiness as human flourishing on the basis of Aristotle's thought in the Nichomachean Ethics. Linking virtue, knowledge, and well-being, Aristotle's analysis of happiness can be traced in Jewish understanding of human flourishing as early as the Greco-Roman world, but the fusion of Greek and Judaic perspectives on happiness reached its zenith in in the Middle Ages in the thought of Moses Maimonides and his followers. Even the controversies about Maimonides' ideas could be viewed as discussions about the meaning of happiness and the way to attain it within Judaism. Much of this book, then, concerns the reception of Aristotle's Ethics in medieval Jewish philosophy. This book shows how a certain notion of happiness reflects the intellectual culture of a given period, including cultural exchanges among Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Demonstrating the discourse on happiness as a dramatic interplay between Wisdom and Torah, between philosophy and religion, between reason and faith, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson presents, to specialists and non-specialists alike, a fascinating tour of Jewish intellectual history.

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Hebrew Union College Press

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087820105X

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9780878201051

Happiness in Premodern Judaism

Virtue, Knowledge, and Well-Being

By: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

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Virtue, Knowledge, and Well-Being

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Between Worlds

Between Worlds

Happiness in Premodern Judaism

Happiness in Premodern Judaism

Happiness in Premodern Judaism

Happiness in Premodern Judaism

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