Vision and Covenant | Gateway 4: Early Modern Times
 Gateway 4 / Contents

Part I: A New Spirit - Towards a Social Contract (15th - 18th Centuries AD)

Introduction

 *From the Renaissance to Enlightenment and Human Rights
   
A New Land
 *Letters – Christopher Columbus
   

Birth of Utopia

 *Utopia – Thomas More
*Nova Atlantis (The New Atlantis) – Francis Bacon
*A Reformation of Schooles - Johann Amos Comenius
   

Progress and Social Contract

 Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes
*Some Thoughts Concerning Education/ *Letter on Tolerance – John Locke
*Emil/ The Social Contract – Jean Jacques Rousseau
*Perpetual Peace – Immanuel Kant
   

Return to Eden

 Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Paradise Lost – John Milton
*Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
 
Part II: Exile, Messiah, and the Mysteries of the Torah (15th – 18th Centuries AD)
     
Introduction
 *Exile and Redemption Between the Expulsion from Spain and the Beginning of the Enlightenment – Prof. Moshe Idel
     

Heralding the Messiah

*Letter from Jerusalem

*Letter of the Tribes – David Hareuveni
*Stories of Rabbi Joseph Dila-Rina – Imrei Yosef
     

Tikkun Ha-Olam

 *Breaking and Mending – Etz Chayim
*Rabbi Isaac Luria and the Hesitators – Shivhei HaAri / Shlomo Shlomil of Dresnice
*Visit to Eden / *Dream of the Three Demon
Kings/ Messiah’s Letter – Sefer HaHezyonot (Book of Visions) / Hayyim Vital
*The Golden Age of Safed Hesitators – Shivhei HaAri / Shlomo Shlomil of Dresnice
*The Golem of Prague – Jewish Folktales
The Sambatyon and Sabbatai Zevi – Eldad the Danite and Nathan of Gaza
*Visions of Nathan of Gaza – Nathan of Gaza
*The Strand of Golden Threads – Jacob Frank
     
Tikkun of the Heart
 Man’s Duty in the World – Mesillat Yesharim / Moshe Chayim Luzzatto
*Book of Principles – Moshe Chayim Luzzatto
*The Ba’al Shem and His Servant – Jewish Folktales
*The Tikkun – Stories of the Ba’al Shem
*The Rich Man, the Ba’al Shem, and King David – Jewish Folktales
Dream of the Messiah – Sefer HaHasidut/ Ba’al Shem
Satan and the Messiah – Sippure Ma’asiyyot/ Nachman of Bratzlav
Tikkun of the Heart – *Collected Works/*Collected Prayers/*Aleph Bet Book – Nachman of Braztlav
*Tikkun Chatzot – Nachman of Bratzlav
*Me’or Einayim – Nahum of Chernobyl
*The Location of Eden – Yitav Panim
     
Tikkun of the Mind
 *Ethica – Benedict Spinoza
*Messiah – The Vilna Gaon
*Jerusalem – Moses Mendelssohn

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