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Eli Rubin, a contributing editor at Chabad.org, is the author of Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism (forthcoming from Stanford University Press). He was a co-author of Social Vision: The Lubavitcher Rebbe's Transformative Paradigm for the World (Herder and Herder, 2019). He studied Chassidic literature and Jewish Law at the Rabbinical College of America and at Yeshivot in the UK, the US and Australia, and received his PhD from the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London.
The convergence of Torah & science in the thought of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
A meditation on the Rebbe’s leadership, for the third day of Tammuz 5784 (2024)
In Aramaic, the language of the Talmud and the Zohar, the word histalkut means departure or withdrawal. In Kabbalistic texts it usually connotes upward ascent. This is the term most commonly used by chassidim to refer to the death of superlatively righteo...
A Case Study of How Rabbinic Theorists Adjudicate Uncertainties
Talmudic Magnificence Uncertainties hold a special place in the corpus of Jewish legal literature, beginning with the Mishnah. Ask any competent Talmudist a straightforward legal question and you will soon find yourself besieged by more hypothetical uncer...
A high-profile champion of Shabbat observance who cherished his personal bond with the Rebbe
If there is one word with which Joe Lieberman’s name is most associated, it is the Jewish day of rest: Shabbat. Lieberman, who faithfully observed Shabbat throughout his high-profile political career, passed away on March 27. He served four terms as U.S. ...
The Life and Times of Rebbetzin Rivkah Schneersohn (1834-1914) - Part 1
Introduction The life of Rebbetzin Rivkah Schneersohn spanned eight decades, from 1834 to 1914. For almost the entirety of that time she lived in the town of Lubavitch, the seat of Chabad-Chassidism for more than a century. As such, she personified a brid...
Behind the scenes, his resourcefulness and discretion proved indispensable
Throughout the decades of his leadership, the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—was supported by a core team of close aides who worked in a variety of different roles. There was secretarial work to be done, scholarly work, logistical...
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.
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