Souls on Fire (Paperback)

from StephenBarkley

Sadness. Every time I set this book down after reading a chapter or two I was filled with an odd sense of melancholy mixed with frustration, but above all, sadness. Hasidic Judaism, one of the branches of Orthodox Judaism, began in 1700 with the birth of Israel Baal Shem Tov. In Souls on Fire, Wi...

from rondoctor

Elie Weisel is sympathetic to the Chasid movement, and counts himself one of them. However, my overall impression after reading this book is that the much revered Tsaddikim he describes were suffering from bipolar ... alternating bouts of ecstasy and depression abound in his descriptions of their...