Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity Katie Walker Grimes The Brubecks and the musicians

The Brubecks and the musicians faced innumerable obstacles

permeating our daily lives with their silent menace

as she's drawn closer and closer to the secret societies and crackpot philosophers that haunt the city's abandoned warehouses and defunct train depots

With its exploration of the places and peoples of early America

Beginning with the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804 as the origins of the mountain men

Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity Katie Walker Grimes The Brubecks and the musiciansKabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity provides a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of Chabad Hasidism through the Kabbalistic concept of ? im? um. The onset of modernity, Eli Rubin argues, was heralded by this startling idea: existence itself is predicated on a self inflicted "rupture" in the infinite assertion of divinity. Centuries of theoretical disputations concerning ? im? um ultimately morphed into religious and social schism.