This essay focuses on Joseph Soloveitchik's re-semantization and renewal of the Jewish concept of messianism. In his view, the idea of Messiah is personified and, at the same time, deferred, as an allegory for ceaseless and ever-changing transformations, both individual and communitarian. Biblical personae endowed with a messianic impulse, such as Abraham, Esther, Mordecai, Tamar, and Ruth, are seen by Soloveitchik as eschatological and metahistorical figures, co-redeemers and co-creators with God, and models with whom human beings may identify. In this framework, particular attention will be paid to Soloveitchik's conception of midrashic hermeneutics, as an always open process of individual and collective self-knowledge and self-redemption; and to the dialectical opposition between "revealed world" and "hidden world" as the constitutive element of Soloveitchik's vision of the humanity-to-come.

In Joseph Soloveitchik l’esperienza dell’umanità post-Shoah, negativa e difettiva, suscita la contro-immagine di un’umanità futura da riparare e riconciliare. Coniugando il messianismo naturalistico-restaurativo di Maimonide con l’idea coheniana di tempo futuro ideale, Soloveitchik trasforma l’attesa in un Messia personale in progetto antropologico, sviluppando un’idea di redenzione intra-mondana, immanente all’uomo e alla storia. In questa cornice, le figure bibliche di Abramo, Ester, Mordecai, Tamar e Rut sono ri-vissute e ri-esperite come modelli escatologici e metastorici di resistenza e creatività umana, e tappe del processo di continua scoperta e attuazione di sé, nei diversi tempi e luoghi della storia, individuale e nazionale. Da qui l’idea di un’ermeneutica che si fa modalità di rivelazione e auto-comprensione storica ed esistenziale, nonché strumento di redenzione e progettazione dell’umanità-a-venire.

Mending a Frail Humankind : Remedial Hermeneutics and Messianic Anthropology in Joseph Soloveitchik / Scordari, Cc. - In: COLLOQUIA HUMANISTICA. - ISSN 2392-2419. - 2022:11(2022), pp. N/A-N/A. [10.11649/ch.2757]

Mending a Frail Humankind : Remedial Hermeneutics and Messianic Anthropology in Joseph Soloveitchik

Scordari, CC
2022

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This essay focuses on Joseph Soloveitchik's re-semantization and renewal of the Jewish concept of messianism. In his view, the idea of Messiah is personified and, at the same time, deferred, as an allegory for ceaseless and ever-changing transformations, both individual and communitarian. Biblical personae endowed with a messianic impulse, such as Abraham, Esther, Mordecai, Tamar, and Ruth, are seen by Soloveitchik as eschatological and metahistorical figures, co-redeemers and co-creators with God, and models with whom human beings may identify. In this framework, particular attention will be paid to Soloveitchik's conception of midrashic hermeneutics, as an always open process of individual and collective self-knowledge and self-redemption; and to the dialectical opposition between "revealed world" and "hidden world" as the constitutive element of Soloveitchik's vision of the humanity-to-come.
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Mending a Frail Humankind : Remedial Hermeneutics and Messianic Anthropology in Joseph Soloveitchik / Scordari, Cc. - In: COLLOQUIA HUMANISTICA. - ISSN 2392-2419. - 2022:11(2022), pp. N/A-N/A. [10.11649/ch.2757]
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