Tales of the Hasidim

<p><b>Two volumes of the Jewish philosopher's classic work that collects and retells the marvelous legends of Hasidism.   <br></b><br>This new paperback edition brings together volumes one and two of Buber's classic work <i>Tales of the Hasidim, </i>with a new foreword by Chaim Potok. Martin Buber devoted forty years of his life to collecting and retelling the legends of Hasidim. "Nowhere in the last centuries," wrote Buber in <i>Hasidim and Modern Man, </i>"has the soul-force of Judaism so manifested itself as in Hasidim... Without an iota being altered in the law, in the ritual, in the traditional life-norms, the long-accustomed arose in a fresh light and meaning."<br><br>These tales—terse, vigorous, often cryptic—are the true texts of Hasidim. The hasidic masters, of whom these tales are told, are full-bodied personalities, yet their lives seem almost symbolic. Through them is expressed the intensity and holy joy whereby God becomes visible in everything.</p>