Sacred Emotions David Page Drawing on their own extensive

Drawing on their own extensive experience and contemporary research

and even the record of a mystical experience

tasking himself to write one essay each week for a year

Frank Golczewski

Sacred Emotions David Page Drawing on their own extensiveScholars have long argued that early Hasidic teachings introduced a psychological dimension to kabbalistic traditions and revitalized modern Judaism. Focused on the inner soul, Hasidism encouraged worshippers to experience joy and delight through their enthusiastic practices. In this new work grounded in the historical study of emotions, Leore Sachs Shmueli shows that Hasidic teachers and preachers also nurtured and even promoted the negative emotions