上帝的守望者——解读《傻瓜吉姆佩尔》中的犹太宗教伦理

The Devotee of God: On Jewish Religious Ethics in Gimpel the Fool

《傻瓜吉姆佩尔》是当代美国犹太作家艾萨克·巴舍维斯·辛格的代表作。在作品中,吉姆佩尔通过对上帝的模仿和对犹太宗教伦理诫命的躬行履践,表达了自己深笃的宗教信仰。辛格以吉姆佩尔蹇舛的生命苦旅,阐释了犹太宗教伦理的内涵,并试图以此唤起已经"世俗化"或正挣扎在边缘线上的犹太人的民族认同感,复活日益淡薄的犹太民族宗教信仰和传统道德标准,从而求得犹太民族精神的复兴,对解决现代社会的诸般问题也深具思想启示。

＂Gimpel the Fool＂ is one of the masterpieces of contemporary American Jewish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer. In the story, Gimpel manifests his reverent faith by imitating God＇s behavior and by practicing Jewish commandments in his daily life. Through the portrayal of Gimpel and his mortified life process, Singer exemplifies the essence of Jewish religious ethics, to arouse the sense of identification of the secularized Jews and those who are struggling on the verge, revive the waning faith in God and the degraded traditional morality among Jewish people, and achieve the rejuvenation of Jewish national spirit.