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Realism a Hasidic Plus, Kabala Book Author Asserts
Kabala is exercising its
influence in many spheres
of intellectual endeavor,
and Hasidism, which
sprang forth with Kabala as
its source, is proving to be a
realistic force in Jewish
ranks, Dr. Edward Hoffman
said on his visit here last
week.
The author of"The Way of
Splendor: Jewish Mysticism
and Modern Psychology"
iShambhala Press, distrib-
uted by Random House and
reviewed in The Jewish
News Oct. 16). delivered the
Sabbath Eve sermon at
Temple Israel last Friday
and addressed the Univer-
sity of Michigan Hillel
Foundation in Ann Arbor
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Burg and Kreisky Confer
VIENNA (JTA) — Chan-
cellor Bruno Kreisky and
Israeli Interior Minister
Yosef Burg met here for a
discussion of the Middle
East and other world de-
velopments.
But there was no narrow-
ing of the wide gap that
separates Austria and Is-
rael on the nature of a Mid-
dle East peace settlement
and especially the Kreisky
government's recognition of
the Palestine Liberation
Organization.
After the meeting Burg
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disputed the belief that
Hasidism is all mysticism.
On the contrary, he said,
even its rootedness into the
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mysticism of the Kabala has
not deprived it of realism.
The explanation, he said,
is in the Hasidic and
Kabalistic recognition of
the facts of life.
Dr. Hoffman's ana-
lytical work on the
Kabala, serving also as a
history of the Hasidic
movement, takes into ac-
count the opposition, the
adversaries, and recalls
the rejection of the
movement by the Gaon of
Vilna. Nevertheless, the
author accounts for the
spread pf Hasidism, half
of Russian and Polish
Jewries having enrolled
in it, and the effects of its
spiritual approaches.
Dr: Hoffman, who is di-
rector of psychology and act-
355-9000
said he and Kreisky dealt
with the Middle East situa-
tion seriously and pro-
foundly. Kreisky said the
understanding was reached
with respect to the Palesti-
nian problem, though he
thought that the differing
positions could be bridged
eventually.
-- He said Austria's position
that the PLO is the legiti-
mate representative of the
Palestinian people was dis-
cussed with the Israeli
minister.
Burg, Israel's chief
negotiator in the au-
tonomy talks with Egypt,
was in Vienna on a pri-
vate visit. He said at a
press conference that
talks are always impor-
tant because peace is too
vital to be hampered by
petty disagreements. He
did not elaborate.
He reiterated, however,
that Israel is unalterably
opposed to the eight-point
Saudi Arabian plan as a
basis for future negotia-
tions.
He noted that the plan,
proposed by Crown Prince
Fand last August, mentions
Israel only twice and only in
connection with demands
that it withdraw frdm all
occupied Arab territory and
dismantle its settlements
on the West Bank.
Burg also denied that the
Fand plan hints at eventual
recognition of Israel's right
to exist. He noted that ex-
perts have pointed out that
the text refers to the right of
states, not of nations in the
area, implying that while
Jews may live in the region,
there is no recognition of Is-
rael.
Havura Names
Two to Posts
NEW YORK — The Na-
tional Havura Coordinating
Committee has appointed
Elaine Shizgal Cohen
chairman of the organiza-
tion's executive committee
and named Dr. Carl A.
Sheingold executive direc-
tor.
Poets Cited
JERUSALEM (JNI) —
The Israel Prize for Litera-
ture has been awarded to
poets Yehuda Amihai and
Amir Gilboa.
WZO to Publish
Encyclopedia's
Final Volume
ing clinical director at Hol-
lywood Pavilion, Hol-
JERUSALEM, (JTA) —
lywood, Fla., pointed out
The eighth and final volume
that the Baal Shem Tov's
of the Biblical Encyclopedia
ideas that were embodied in
will be published shortly by
the Hasidic observances
the World Zionist Organiza-
and the mysticism of the
tion - Bialik Institute, end-
Kabala influenced many
thinkers, including Sig-
ing a 40-year project begun
by the late Prof. A.L.
mund Freud.
Sukenik, father of the in-
Dr. Hoffman was laudat-
ternationally prominent ar-
ory, in his comments here,
cheologist, Yigael Yadin.
of the effects of the Hasidic,
The final volume will be
the Chabad, efforts in
followed by an index and a
reaching the youth. He said
that many deluded were
supplementary volume.
drawn into Jewish devotion,
Yitzhak Taub, director gen-
eral of the WZO - Bialik In-
that dope fiends were cured
stitute, said biblical schol-
and some who were drawn
ars in Israel and abroad
into cults were weaned
consider the encyclopedia
away by Chabad spiritual
to be the foremost scientific
hospitality.
authority on the subject.
Conceding that a sizable
Leon Dulzin, chairman of
number of young Jews were
the WZO Executive,
drawn into the cults, Dr.
Hoffman expressed the view - suggested that the institute
now consider publishing
that their numbers are
and encyclopedia of Zionism
exaggerated. "There is
cause of satisfaction," he on the occasion of the 100th
said, "that the Hasidim, anniversary of the Zionist
movement.
mainly the Lubavitcher,
succeed in winning them
Contentment is natural
back into the Jewish fold."
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