Suffering Time: Philosophical, Kabbalistic, and Hasidic Reflections on Temporality

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Title Page
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Dedication
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Timemask and the Telling of Time in the Time of Telling
	1 Time’s Linear Circle and Reiteration of the Inimitable
Chapter 2 Linear Circularity/(A)Temporal Poetics
	1 Encircled Line: Mythologic of Hebraic Time
	2 Alef/Mem/Tau: Time, Truth, Death
	3 Timeless Time and the Rotation of the Sefirot
	4 Temporal Ontology/Eventful Grammar
	5 In this Moment: Engendering Time and Feminine Indeterminacy
	6 Phallic Fecundity and the Spatio-Temporal Enshrining of Prayer
	7 Day That Is Entirely Long: Temporal In-difference
Chapter 3 Kenotic Overflow, Temporal Transcendence, and Angelic Embodiment in the Kabbalah of Abraham Abulafia
	1 Tempus Discretum and the Eternal Return of What Has Never Been
	2 Intellectual Conjunction and the Mechanics of Divine Influence
	3 In the Blink of an Eye: Time as the Mysterium Coniunctionis
	4 Angelomorphic Transformation and Monopsychic Integration
	5 Kenotic Expansion, Temporal Delimitation, and Becoming the Nothing-That-Is-All
	6 Life of the World to Come: yhwh and the Compresence of Time
Chapter 4 Retroactive Not Yet: Linear Circularity and Kabbalistic Temporality
	1 Alef and the Immeasurability of Eternal Time
	2 Imagining Time and the Givenness of the Nongiven
	3 Return of the Altogether Otherwise
	4 Ṣimṣum and the Replication of Difference
Chapter 5 Suffering Time: Maharal’s Influence on Ḥasidic Perspectives on Temporality
	1 Time of Suffering in the Suffering of Time
	2 Time out of Time: Eternality and the Temporal Transcendence of Temporality
	3 Infinity and the Eternity of Time in Ḥasidic Sources
	4 Timefully Retrieving Instant beyond Time: Ascesis and Corporeal Worship
Chapter 6 The Cut That Binds: Time, Memory, and the Ascetic Impulse in Naḥman of Bratslav
	1 Memory, Mindfulness, and Masculinity
	2 Returning Beyond: Recollecting the Future in Anticipation of the Past
	3 Perfection of Memory, Rectification of the Phallus, and the Conquest of the Eros of Time
	4 Ascetic Renunciation and the Eschatological Triumph over Time
Chapter 7 Malkhut de-Ein Sof and the Temporalization of Space: Ṣimṣum in the Teaching of Solomon ben Ḥayyim Eliashiv
	1 Time as the Measure of the Immeasurable
	2 Temporal Eternity and the Infinite Finitude
	3 Kingship of the Infinite and the Demarcation of the Not-Other as Other
	4 Sha‘ashu‘a and the Autoerotic Differentiating Indifference
	5 Ṣimṣum and the Literalization of the Figurative in the Figuralization of the Literal
	6 Temporalization of the Spatial: Timespace as the Fourth Dimension
Chapter 8 Not Yet Now: Speaking of the End and the End of Speaking
	1 Death and the Surplus of Not Yet
	2 Waiting for the End of Waiting
	3 Messianic Time, Futural Remembering, and Historical Disjointedness
	4 Utopian Hope and Disenchantment of the Image
	5 Not Yet Now and the Nothingness of the Future
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Index
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