Abstract

Doctrine of the distant tzaddik: mysticism, ethic, and politics -- Self-image and the Father-figure: Rabbi Nachman of Breslov on repairing the souls of the dead -- Two tzsddikim, Two women in labor, and one salvation: reading gender in Hasidic story -- 'Outside of the natural order': Temrel, the female Hasid -- Hasidic women: beyond egalitarianist discourse -- The Hasidic story: a call of narrative religiosity -- The Yamima method as a contemporary- Hasidic- female movement.