Kabbalah & Chassidism; Mysticism

Eli Rubin. Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism. Stanford University Press, 2025. 446pp. $70. Writing a book review is reminiscent of high school, an enduring trauma to which I have no desire to return. Instead,...

For peoples who have attained a state of aesthetic affluence in high art, where the luxuriant proliferation of genius obliges art museum curators to be as panicked about which masterly works to leave out of their collections as about which works to includ...

Imagine a person trapped under a collapsed building. There is a small fissure in the rubble--just large enough to allow him to extend his hand to his rescuers. We are that hand

It's as if you would ask the Creator, a billion times a second, "Seeing what's become of it, would you do it all over again?"

It's probably the oldest question in the history of human thought. It's surely the most disturbing, the most frequently asked and the least satisfactorily answered. Why, oh why, do bad things happen to good people?

This past week, on the 18th of Elul, we marked the birthdays of two pioneers who devoted their lives to campaigning against negative campaigning...

JERUSALEM—My wife and I have been blessed over the past 35 years to live in vibrant Jewish communities in Crown Heights, Brooklyn; Monsey, N.Y.; and now Jerusalem, Israel, where we have had the opportunity to get to know many well-educated spiritual seeke...

It’s not often that an author hides such a wide-ranging and impressive work behind a title as simple and unassuming as “The Four Keys of Kabbalah” by Rabbi Yisrael M. Rice, longtime Chabad emissary to Marin County in Northern California. Couching Kabbalis...

A Rebbe has mastered his personal mission. He then turns his attention to infusing the undercapitalized startups of the generation, pumping spiritual capital into the corner stores...

World-renowned Yuval Yaron tackles the niggun, and emerges more committed to his spirituality.