...This chapter focuses on the work of Ya’akov Koppel who lived on the cusp of the Hasidic movement. The chapter focuses is the doctrine of the zaddik and its similarities to the Christian notion of kenosis, the act of incarnation through divine emptying. Koppel’s writing offers the novel idea...

... present, albeit often veiled, in much of kabbalistic teaching that was adopted in Hasidism to portray its notion of the charismatic figure (zaddik), often in supernatural terms. Hasidism Incarnate offer close readings of classical Hasidic texts to show the “Christian” tropes, which may have originally...