How Long to Read Living in the Presence

How Long Does it Take to Read Living in the Presence?

It takes the average reader 12 hours and 9 minutes to read Living in the Presence by Rabbi Burt Jacobson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A rabbi’s lifelong journey to discover the source and inspiration of Hasidism. As a student of Abraham Joshua Heschel’s at Jewish Theological Seminary sixty years ago, Burt Jacobson was moved to devote his life to the study of Israel Baal Shem Tov—the founder of Hasidism. Heschel considered the Baal Shem the greatest Jewish teacher and communal leader of the last 1,000 years. Living in the Presence: A Personal Quest for the Baal Shem Tov is a wide-ranging portrait, revealing numerous facets of the Baal Shem Tov’s biography and revolutionary thought previously unknown. Through his knowledge of the world’s wisdom traditions, and personal journey, Rabbi Jacobson is able to place the Baal Shem in the company of the great world spiritual teachers. He reveals the Baal Shem’s vision as an ecstatic mystical encounter that opened to the transcendent unity of existence. It was this that inspired his love and compassion for all creation, especially for the people he met. His disciples testified that their experience of these truths transformed how they understood their own identities as manifestations of the Divine, altered how they lived as spiritual leaders of their communities, and laid the foundations for Hasidism as a movement. Throughout his book Jacobson presents and evaluates insights of historians and scholars, but it is also filled with personal stories about Jacobson’s own struggle with his Jewish identity and his encounter with the Baal Shem as his spiritual teacher. Both a tour de force and a labor of love, this book will quickly become the most essential work on the subject ever published in English.

How long is Living in the Presence?

Living in the Presence by Rabbi Burt Jacobson is 715 pages long, and a total of 182,325 words.

This makes it 241% the length of the average book. It also has 223% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Living in the Presence Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 16 hours and 36 minutes to read Living in the Presence aloud.

What Reading Level is Living in the Presence?

Living in the Presence is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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