'The purpose of this book is to elevate stories and storytelling in people's esteem, so they will understand their holiness and appreciate them at their full worth. There are those who enjoy stories and storytelling but in the back of their minds think, 'After all, they're only stories.'
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part 1 Introduction: Storytelling and Spirituality
Part 2 Part I: Storytelling in Hasidism
Chapter 3 Ch.1 What Made Hasidic Storytelling Different?
Chapter 4 Ch.2 Hasidic Praise of Stories and Storytelling
Chapter 5 Ch.3 The First Hasidic Storyteller: The Baal Shem Tov
Chapter 6 Ch.4 The Besht's Stories
Chapter 7 Ch.5 The Besht's Use of Secular Tales
Chapter 8 Ch.6 The Besht's Storyteller Disciple
Chapter 9 Ch.7 Storytelling in Hasidic Life
Chapter 10 Ch.8 An Established Place in Hasidism: The Mitzvah of Storytelling
Chapter 11 Ch.9 Drawing People to God Through Storytelling
Chapter 12 Ch.10 Traditional Opposition to Storytelling
Chapter 13 Ch.11 Scriptural Support for Storytelling
Chapter 14 Ch.12 Storytelling Among the Misnagdim and Non-hasidim
Part 15 Part II: Hasidic Teaching About the Methods and Practices of Storytelling
Chapter 16 Ch.13 Deriving Lessons from Stories
Chapter 17 Ch.14 How to Tell, How to Listen
Chapter 18 Ch.15 Hearing the Hints in Stories
Chapter 19 Ch.16 Miracle Stories: What to Believe
Chapter 20 Ch.17 Different Story Versions: Issues of Truth and Falsehood
Chapter 21 Ch.18 How Rebbes Use Stories
Chapter 22 Ch.19 An Exceptional Case: Rabbi Nahman of Bratzlav
Part 23 Part III: Hasidic Teaching About the Benefits of Storytelling
Chapter 24 Ch.20 Stories Save
Chapter 25 Ch.21 Stories Save-Continued
Chapter 26 Ch.22 Messiah
Chapter 27 Afterword: Applications for Today
