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MH - Indiana University Press Transforming Philosophy and Religion Loves
Book SynopsisDescribes how various expressions of philosophy are transformed by the discipline of love. While it has been fairly common for philosophers to think about love, This work features 16 essays that go beyond the commonplace to show how philosophy is implicated in the ways of love.Trade ReviewWirzba and Benson's astonishingly rich, scholarly compilation of essays from professors of philosophy and religion/religious studies brings a novel approach to the intersection of Christianity and Western philosophy. Rather than being a philosophy about love, this book shows that love provides the essential framework through which philosophy and theology both operate and manifest. If philosophy has as its goal an active understanding alongside of the world, then Christian agape love, understood as a deep concern for the Other as neighbor, is a necessary precondition. As John Caputo states: "... love is what being-commanded-by-the-law is all about." James Olthuis's compelling essay suggests that the Creation be understood not as an out-of-chaos ex nihilo creation, but instead as a seduc! tive, ebullient creation ex amore (cum amore et ad amorem). Amy Laura Hall argues that love needs to be the process by which one approaches bioethics; by being able to manipulate genetics, is one changing the definition of humanity? Contributors wrestle respectfully with Kierkegaard, St. Paul, Levinas, and Derrida from diverse vantage points, but the primacy of love as the source for wisdom (and not another instance of dry subject matter) is never lost. This collection is both beautiful and exciting in its scope, content, and direction. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. S. J. Shaw, Prairie View A&M University, Choice, January 2009"The strength of this collection of essays, all sharing in their continental-philosophical bent, lies mainly in its extreme relevance and its apparent 'call to action' for thinkers of philosophical and religious thought." —Louvain Studies"... these essays in Transforming Philosophy and Religion offer a resounding affirmation of St. Paul's proclamations about the emptiness of knowledge without love (I Corinthians 13). Given its contributors (esp. Caputo and Wirzba) and the topics that they engage (e.g., Paul, Zizek, etc.), it will be of particular interest to the aspiring theologians of the emerging church." —Chris Smith, Editor, The Englewood Review of Books (Indy), Dec. 5, 2008"This collection is both beautiful and exciting in its scope, content, and direction. Summing Up: Essential." —Choice, January 2009Table of ContentsIntroduction Norman Wirzba and Bruce Ellis BensonPart 1. The Nature of the Quest1. The Primacy of Love Norman Wirzba2. The Economies of Knowledge and Love in Paul Bruce Ellis Benson3. Love, This Lenient Interpreter: On the Complexity of a Life Edward MooneyPart 2. Justice4. A Love as Strong as Death: Ricoeur's Reading of the Song of Songs Mark Gedney5. Paul Ricoeur and the Possibility of Just Love Christopher Watkin6. Why There Is No Either/Or in Works of Love: A Kantian Defense of Kierkegaardian (Christian) Unconditional Love Bertha Alvarez Manninen7. Living by Love: A Quasi-Apostolic carte postale on Love in Itself, If There Is Such a Thing John D. CaputoPart 3. The Sacred8. A Love that B(l)inds: Reflections on an Agapic Agnosticism B. Keith Putt9. Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder Brian Treanor10. Creation Ex Amore James Olthuis11. Militant Love: Zizek and the Christian Legacy Tyler Roberts12. Love as a Declaration of War? On the Absolute Character of Love in Jean-Luc Marion's Phenomenology of Eros Christina M. GschwandtnerPart 4. Rethinking Humanity13. Liberating Love's Capabilities: On the Wisdom of Love Pamela Sue Anderson14. The Genesis of Love: An Irigarayan Reading Ruthanne S. Pierson Crápo15. You'd Better Find Somebody to Love: Toward a Kierkegaardian Bioethic Amy Laura HallList of ContributorsIndex
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Toby Press Ltd Illuminating Jewish Thought: Faith, Philosophy,
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Toby Press Ltd Sage Advice: Pirkei Avot
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Toby Press Ltd Orot (Hebrew/English)
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Toby Press Ltd Faith and History: Essays on Prayer, Exile, and
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Maggid The Steinsaltz Tanya V5 Iggeret Hakodesh 1826
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Toby Press Ltd Values in Halakha: Six Case Studies
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Maggid Divrei Soferim: The Transmission of Torah
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Maggid Letter and Spirit: Evasion, Avoidance, and
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Toby Press Ltd Return and Renewal: Reflections on Teshuva and
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Nietzsches Ecce Homo and the Revaluation of All
Book SynopsisChallenging the standard interpretation of Nietzsche's last published work, Ecce Homo, as frivolous autobiography, Thomas H. Brobjer provides an original and detailed analysis of Ecce Homo as fundamental to Nietzsche's unfinished masterwork on the revaluation of all values.Arguing that Ecce Homo laid the foundations for his planned four-volume work on values, Brobjer draws together the intentions and motivations behind Nietzsche's late work to create a new narrative on it. He situates this period in the desire to undermine the system of Christian values that Nietzsche believed were unchecked as the standard moral gauge for his time. To engage in this project, Brobjer shows that it was essential for Nietzsche to explore the self and life-denying qualities of a Christian system of values within a broader framework of ideas about morality, altruism, egotism, pessimism, humility and pride.By fully outlining the context of Ecce Homo, Brobjer provides a complete cTrade ReviewThomas Brobjer’s book on Ecce homo presents Nietzsche’s autogenealogy in a provocative new way. It is a challenge particularly for Anglophone Nietzsche scholars engaged in rather scholastic debates. The study demonstrates how Ecce homo is intended to prepare Nietzsche’s late main project of a “transvaluation of all values” (“Umwerthung aller Werthe”) and how this project has to be reconsidered. * Andreas Urs Sommer, Professor of Philosophy and Executive Director of the Nietzsche Research Center, University of Freiburg, Germany *Brobjer avoids dichotomising between Ecce Homo as autobiography and as a philosophical work, recognising the interconnection between Nietzsche’s life and philosophy. Employing thorough analysis of letters and drafts, Brobjer takes a distinctive approach to Ecce Homo as preparing a revaluation of values, while advancing important reflections on the symbol of Dionysius. * Katrina Mitcheson, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of the West of England, UK *This book.. heralds a great future for Nietzsche scholarship, for what it calls and awakens a hunger for is the revaluation of both the Nachlass and Nietzsche’s final two books. -- Charles P. Rodger * Journal of the History of Philosophy *Table of Contents1. The Revaluation of All Values as the Purpose of Ecce Homo 2. The Presence of the Revaluation of All Values in Other Later Books and Letters 3. Reading Ecce Homo as Preparatory to Nietzsche’s Revaluation of All Values 4. The Last Chapter, “Why I Am A Destiny,” as Preparatory to the Revaluation of All Values 5. The Roles of Zarathustra and Dionysos in Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo and Late Texts 6. What Can We Learn about the Revaluation of All Values from Ecce homo and Late Texts? Appendix: Outline, Summary and Chronology of Ecce homo Notes Bibliography of Nietzsche literature Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Gods Action in the World
Book SynopsisThe problem of God's action in the world is at the heart of debates today on the relationship between science and religion. By analysing the issue through the lens of analytic philosophy, Marek Slomka reveals how philosophy can successfully bridge science and theology to bring greater clarity to divine action. This book identifies essential aspects from various branches of theism, starting with traditional Thomistic approaches, through to their modified forms such as Molinism and contemporary varieties such as free-will theism and probabilistic theism. Analysing crucial elements of God's nature including omnipotence, omniscience, his relation to time and the tension between immanence and transcendence, Slomka reveals the difficulties in proposing a single conception of God through one theistic tradition. Instead of simplistically juxtaposing particular theistic trends, he highlights the value of pluralistic insights that also draw on important scientific theories, including Darwin's Trade ReviewThis book answers an urgent need in the discussion of divine action by providing historical background and insightful analysis for key philosophical concepts and issues. * Michael J. Dodds, OP, Professor of Philosophy and Theology, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley, USA *One of the richest and clearest presentations of issues in contemporary philosophy of religion that I have read recently. Not only is it up to date in its interpretation of American and British literature on the topic, but it also introduces readers to the rich and largely neglected Polish resources of relevance to interpretations of the question of divine action and other themes in the philosophy of theistic religion. A valuable resource for years to come. * John F Haught, Distinguished Research Professor, Georgetown University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. On the Action 2. On God 3. On the World 4. Threats and Challenges Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Notions of George Berkeley
Book SynopsisGeorge Berkeley's doctrine of notions is often disparaged or dismissed. In a systematic interpretation and positive reconstruction of the doctrine, James Hill presents Berkeley's understanding of the inner sphere and self-awareness, and reassesses the widely held view of Berkeley as an empiricist. Examining the development of Berkeley's philosophy from the early notebooks to the late Siris, Hill sets out how knowledge by notion involves a radical rejection of the perceptual model of self-cognition and of the attempt to frame our knowledge of the inner by analogy with the outer. He points to Berkeley's divergence from the assumption among rationalists and empiricists that we know our selves and our mental acts by idea, or by an immediate presentation before the mind. Weaving together Berkeley's conception of the intellect, conceptual thought, mathematics, ethics and theology in the light of the doctrine of notions, Hill invites us to treat Berkeley's philosophy of mind as distiTrade ReviewThe Notions of George Berkeley is a major event in Berkeley studies. For no commentator before Hill has gotten as close to Berkeley on this crucial subject, or shown how encompassing it is in Berkeley’s philosophy. * David Berman, Emeritus Fellow and Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland *A textually moored, historically contextualized and philosophically sophisticated reconstruction of Berkeley's puzzling doctrine of notions, our knowledge of ourselves, our acts, relations, number, virtue and God. Hill persuasively explains why Berkeley is part-empiricist and part-rationalist, and why his positive ontological views, not only his well-known immaterialism, deserve a closer look. * Samuel C. Rickless, Professor of Philosophy, University of California San Diego, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Berkeley’s Predecessors on Self-Knowledge 3. A Notion of an Active Self 4. Notions and Innatism 5. Sense Perception: A Passive or an Active Power? 6. Berkeley’s Conceptual Dynamism 7. A Notion of Goodness 8. Number and the Notion of God Notes Bibliography Index
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MH - Indiana University Press The New Kierkegaard
Book SynopsisPlacing Kierkegaard squarely within the currents of contemporary continental philosophy, this title reveals insights into the philosopher's work and thinking. It explores the breadth of Kierkegaard's thought and unfolds the richness of his views on the human condition.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction Elsebet Jegstrup1. Either/Or, Undecidability and Two Concepts of Irony: Kierkegaard and Derrida John D. Caputo2. Reading Either/Or For the Very First Time Roger Poole3. "The aesthetic is above all my element" Joakim Garff4. A Rose by Any Other Name…Kierkegaardian Ironies Elsebet Jegstrup5. On the Borderline of Madness John Llewelyn6. Revocated Trials - On the Indirect Communication in Two of Kierkegaard's Religious Discourses Jacob Bøggild7. The First Kiss: Tales of Innocence and Experience David Wood8. I or You - The Dash of Ethics Robert Gibbs9. Love and Difference: The Christian Ideal in Kierkegaard's Works of Love Vanessa Rumble10. Art, Eroticism and Sadomasochistic Sacrifice in Søren Kierkegaard and Isac Dinesen John Vignaux Smyth11. Kierkegaard and Derrida: Between Totality and Infinity Mark Dooley12. Empty Community: Kierkegaard on Being with You Jason Wirth13. Kierkegaard on Hamlet - Between Art and Religion Richard KearneyContributorsIndex
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Edinburgh University Press An Introduction to Wittgensteins Philosophy of
Book SynopsisBrian Clack provides a much-needed primer in Wittgenstein's thought as it relates to religious belief.Trade ReviewSucceeds very well in bringing out the myriad issues that have come to be associated with a Wittgensteinian approach to philosophy of religion. A nimble and often fascinating jaunt through the Wittgensteinian approach to religion. I recommend it highly for anyone wishing to learn more about Wittgenstein's views and their influence; it also has the added advantage of raising along the way many broader issues about religious belief. Succeeds very well in bringing out the myriad issues that have come to be associated with a Wittgensteinian approach to philosophy of religion. A nimble and often fascinating jaunt through the Wittgensteinian approach to religion. I recommend it highly for anyone wishing to learn more about Wittgenstein's views and their influence; it also has the added advantage of raising along the way many broader issues about religious belief.
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Hamilton Books Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern A Once and
Book SynopsisIn Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Moses de LeÃn, and Meister Eckhartâ three of the greatest mystics of all timeâmeet for an imaginary conversation that will inspire individuals of the twenty-first century to find their own spirituality and realize that everyone can be a mystic.Trade ReviewThe reader cannot help but join in the conversation, and not only because it is a conversation and not a treatise, a dialogue, and not a lecture. We join in because the conversation talks to the conditions and issues of today, in part through voices that speak today, in the present tense, and not only those that speak out of some misty distant past. The threads of this volume are woven together in a richly hued, tight, and very readable tapestry. The tapestry is also a doorway—into the warmest of intellectual and spiritual taverns, into which all of us are invited, out of the dark, windy night of the everyday world and its complications. The wise reader will read beginning to end, hardly stopping for breath, inspired. -- Ori Z. Soltes, Georgetown University, author of Mysticism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Searching for OnenessTable of ContentsForeword Introductory Comments—A Tavern? Chapter 1. What This Book Is—And Is Not—About Everyone Can Be a Mystic Restless Hearts Chapter 2. They Meet at Taverna degli Alighieri in Venice Chapter 3. Mysticism: For Everyone? Trying to Define the Indefinable Mysticism Back on Stage One River, Many Wells Historical Notes Characteristics Dangers of Mysticism Chapter 4. The 13th and Early 14th Centuries as Backdrop Christianity in Europe The Mongols Culture, Education, and Law Political Events 13th-Century Inventions Concluding Comments Chapter 5. Jalal ad-Din Rumi Teachings Major Works Order of Whirling Dervishes Legacy Chapter 6. Meister Eckhart Influence Works and Teachings Modern Spirituality Chapter 7. Moses de León The Zohar The Zohar and Kabbalah Concluding Comments Chapter 8. The Conversation Continues, About the Divine Chapter 9. More Tea, Wine, and Conversation: This Time, About Religion and Whether It Helps or Hinders Chapter 10. Still More Çay and Conversation: The Mystic, Society, and Justice—And How They Fit Together Chapter 11. Women and the Feminine Chapter 12. As Dawn Approaches: Mysticism and the 21st Century Chapter 13. They Conclude—The Underground River and Expanding the Circle Select Bibliography
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Kessinger Publishing History of Philosophy in Islam 1903
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ME - Fordham University Press Phenomenology Wide Open After the French Debate
Book SynopsisThis book follows up the developments inphenomenology discussed in Phenomenology andthe Theological Turn: The French Debate, attempting toestablish what potentialities in the phenomenologicalmethod exist at present.
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) Religion and Philosophy in Germany
Book SynopsisDuring the last 25 years of his life, Heinrich Heine lived in Paris for the most part, and there he contributed to the Revue de Deux Mondes a series of prose articles on the religious and political history of Germany, a subject in which he had a deep and lasting interest. Those articles, collected here, cover the period from the Middle Ages to Hegel.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Human Dignity in the JudaeoChristian Tradition
Book SynopsisDignity is a fundamental aspect of our lives, yet one we rarely pause to consider; our understandings of dignity, on individual, collective and philosophical perspectives, shape how we think, act and relate to others. This book offers an historical survey of how dignity has been understood and explores the concept in the Judaeo-Christian tradition.World-renowned contributors examine the roots of human dignity in classical Greece and Rome and the Scriptures, as well as in the work of theologians, such as St Thomas Aquinas and St John Paul II. Further chapters consider dignity within Renaissance art and sacred music. The volume shows that dignity is also a contemporary issue by analysing situations where the traditional understanding has been challenged by philosophical and policy developments. To this end, further essays look at the role of dignity in discussions about transhumanism, religious freedom, robotics and medicine.Grounded in the principal Christian traditiTrade Review[A] fascinating read. * Standpoint Magazine *A fine set of essays designed to explain and defend the notion of human dignity in the Judaeo-Christian tradition . . . individuals like Loughlin and his colleagues turn to the history of philosophy in their studies of the concept of dignity, and by knowing our history—the history of humanity and the history of thinking—we are in a better position to know our proper trajectory. * International Philosophical Quarterly *A thoughtful, necessary and scholarly contribution ... [the essays] repay serious study on a subject of crucial concern for everyone, whatever their creed or ethnicity. * Catholic Herald *John Loughlin and his colleagues provide an engaging and lively reconsideration of the value of human dignity in these troubled, contested times. This groundbreaking and important contribution to our understanding of ourselves and of the worth of each individual draws on a number of disciplines and perspectives, which reminds us that autonomy has to be debated, defended, redefined and prized, if it continues to serve as an ethical foundation for human interaction. -- Colin H. Williams, Honorary Professor at Cardiff University and Senior Research Associate of the Von Hugel Institute, Cambridge University, UKA rich and powerful treatment of the idea of human dignity. This work draws together an impressive array of well-known international scholars to explore the Judeo-Christian and aesthetic dimensions of the concept. They mount a robust defense of the spiritual, biblical, and historical aspects of the idea against those who reject human dignity as a mere religious construct with no relevance for modernity. -- Oliver P. Rafferty SJ, Professor of History, Boston College, USA.This volume provides a needed reassessment of the roots of human dignity from the vantage of the relational model of “likeness and image of God” in the Judeo-Christian tradition. The authors’ attention to the unmistakable contribution of this idea, its development alongside classical ideals, and the way it has broadly impacted culture and rights theories make this book a most valuable resource. -- Kevin G. Grove, CSC, Assistant Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame, United StatesLoughlin has drawn together for this collection a very impressive field of international scholars from a wide variety of disciplines . . . This is a very significant volume which should become a standard text in the field; a short review cannot really do justice to it. . . This brief summary of such a panoramic collection shows how worthwhile this enterprise has been, and Loughlin is to be congratulated. * Ashley Beck, Pastoral Review *This book is thoroughly recommended as a contribution of lasting value to the Christian notion of human dignity. * Law & Justice *The greatest strength of this text is that it accomplishes what it sets out to do - to offer a comprehensive view of Judeo-Christian perspectives on human dignity. This volume would be a helpful accompaniment to any course in human rights, as well as any upper level course in philosophy and theology seeking to more fully understand the philosophical and theological heritage of human dignity. * Reviews in Religion and Theology *Table of ContentsList of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, John Loughlin 1. ‘So God Created Humanity in His own Image’ (Genesis 1.27). What Does The Bible Mean and What Have People Thought it Meant? John Day 2. The Pre-Christian Greek and Roman Notions of Human Dignity, Josef Lössl 3. Christ as Imago Dei – A Missed Opportunity of Ante-Nicene Christian Theology, Vladimir Latinovic 4. The Holy Trinity as Source of Human Dignity According to St Thomas Aquinas, Richard Conrad 5. Human Dignity and Human Wretchedness from St Irenaeus to Pico della Mirandola, John Loughlin 6. The Beauty of the Person in Christian Thought and Art, Timothy Verdon 7. Western Christian Sacred Music and Human Dignity, Jonathan Arnold 8. Human Dignity, Equality, and Liberty in Protestant Thought, John Witte, Jr 9. The Dignity of the Ancients and the Dignity of the Moderns, John Milbank 10. Human Dignity inJohn Paul II’sPersonalist Philosophy, Miguel Acosta 11. Religious Freedom and Dignity, Roger Trigg 12. Human Dignity in a Biotechnological Age, Michael Burdett 13. Bioethics and the Secular Belief of Inherent Human Dignity, Calum MacKellar Index
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) JeanLuc Nancy and Plural Thinking Expositions of
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Mohr Siebeck Gottesphanomene
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Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. K Kein Etwas aber auch nicht ein Nichts
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Herder Verlag GmbH Selbstbildnis in Briefen I
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Brill I Schoeningh Freiheit verantworten
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Brill I Fink Der freie Wille und das Böse
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Maggid Orot
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Herder Verlag GmbH Wege der Gotteserkenntnis
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Oxford University Press John Blund
Book SynopsisSince the publication of the edition of John Blund''s Tractatus de anima by the British Academy in 1970 there has been widespread acceptance of the importance of this text for the history of thought. Blund (ca. 1175-1248) was probably one of the first commentators on the libri naturales at Paris before the prohibition of 1210, and later introduced them to Oxford. Indeed, apart from the prohibitions of 1210 and 1215, the De anima of Blund is the one text which sheds light on the first reception of Aristotle at Paris. The text was probably composed at Paris, before 1204. Blund taught arts at Paris ca. 1200-1205, then at Oxford towards 1207-1209. He returned to study theology at Paris during the interdict (1208-1214) and the contemporaneous suspension of the schools at Oxford (1209-1214). He was regent in theology at Paris for twelve years, and taught theology at Oxford after 1229.With the Tractatus a whole area of philosophical speculation - namely Greek and Arabic psychology - arrived aTable of ContentsIntroduction to the New Edition ; Introduction to the Latin Edition of 1970 ; Addenda to the Latin Text ; Sigla codicum ; Index capitulorum (Chapter index) ; Tractatus de anima secundum Iohannem Blondum ; Appendix ; Index auctorum (Index of authors) ; Index nominum et verborum potiorum (Index of names and key words) ; Subject Index
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Maggid The Eternal Conversation
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