Beggars and Prayers: Adin Steinsaltz Retells the Tales of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav

In this book, Rabbi Steinsaltz retells, and then offers his own theological interpretation of, the tales of Rabbi Nachman. In retelling his allegorical tales anew, and bringing to them the force of a troubled twentieth-century quest for the experience of God, Adin Steinsaltz creates a new body of religious teachings, rooted in and loyal to the old, yet at the same time directed to the needs, intellectual as well as spiritual, of his contemporaries.