Fragments of a Future Scroll: Hasidism for the Aquarian Age (50th Anniversary Edition)

The 50th anniversary edition of a paradigm-shifting work by one of the most important Jewish figures in postwar America. By the time of his death, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924-2014), also known as Reb Zalman, had transformed the landscape of Judaism in America.The son of liberal Hasidic Jews, a Holocaust refugee, and a devoted Lubavitcher Hasid, Reb Zalman eventually left the traditional Hasidic fold and committed himself to seeding a mystical Jewish renaissance.An active participant in the counterculture and New Age movements, Reb Zalman began experimenting with different forms of Jewish ritual and contemplative practice-and their intersection with other spiritual traditions-ultimately founding the Jewish Renewal movement. Fragments of a Future Scroll, Reb Zalman's first book, was originally published by a small press in 1975 and, until now, was long out of print.A truly unique book-or "anti-book," as Shaul Magid refers to it in his new introductory essay-Fragments gathers Reb Zalma