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Eli Rubin studied Chassidic literature and Jewish Law at the Rabbinical College of America and at Yeshivot in the UK, the US and Australia. He has been a research writer and editor at Chabad.org since 2011, focusing on the social and intellectual history of Chabad Chassidism. Through his writing, research, and editorial work he has successfully participated in a range of scholarly interchanges and collaborative endeavors.
Selected Correspondence Between Chaim Grade and the Rebbe
Introduction: The Midnight Visit of a President and a Poet In July 1966, Chaim Grade—the Yiddish writer who so vividly memorialized the world of Jewish life and learning in pre-Holocaust Lita—received a phone call. Zalman Shazar, the journalist and labor-...
A 19th-Century Maskil Mourns the Tzemach Tzedek
Introduction The following poem was composed, annotated, and published by Eliezer Tzvi Zweifel (1815-1888) as a tribute to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn of Lubavitch soon after his passing on the 13th of Nissan, 1866. Rabbi Menachem Mendel, known as t...
On the rejuvenation of spiritual life and the essential meaning of teshuvah
Teshuvah gives us a new understanding of the essential depth of a mitzvah, of how deeply they are bound up in our own souls, and how deeply they connect us with G‑d.
A meditation on the meaning of Rosh Hashanah
The shofar is a call to renewal, and that renewal is enacted by ourselves and by G‑d.
On his first yahrtzeit, an exploration of his journey from adrift teenager to "modern day Rashi"
How a teenager adrift in Jerusalem was transformed into an internationally acclaimed scholar and educator.
A historical reflection on the significance of “America” in Chabad thought, marking the 80th anniversary of the Rebbe’s arrival on US soil in 5701/1941
A Look Back at a 1981 Pre-Inauguration Address by Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson
On the eve of the presidential transition between the Carter and Reagan administrations, the Rebbe provided perspective on the meaning and importance of majority rule, on the need for due gratitude together with disagreement, and on the importance of trus...
A fresh reading of the “Holy Epistle” of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov—a founding document of sorts that has been much discussed both in internal Chassidic discourse and in academic studies of Hasidism—yields six elementary principles of what Wexler calls "t...
The longtime Yeshiva University leader, who died at 92, placed Chassidic thought at center of his ‘centrist’ project
An appreciation that reflects on Lamm’s personal reception of Chassidism’s living heritage, the place of Chassidism in his scholarly work, his engagement with Chassidism in the fashioning of his famous derashot (sermons), and on Chassidism as his preferre...
R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi's "Gateway to [Divine] Union and Cognizance"
What do we mean when we say "G-d is One"? What is the relationship between G-d and the world? What is the gateway to divine union and cognizance? Join us for a series of classes on Part Two of the foundational work of Chabad thought, Likutei Amarim - Tany...
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