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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.
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 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...
Chapter 6 of "Gateway to [Divine] Union and Cognizance"
Can nature itself be understood as a facet of the divine? The eighth in a series of classes on Part Two of the foundational work of Chabad thought, Likutei Amarim - Tanya: "Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah," by the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.
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...
Chapter 5 of "Gateway to [Divine] Union and Cognizance"
Explore the dual dynamic at play in creation, prophecy, and in the celestial experience of the souls in the Garden of Eden. The seventh in a series of classes on Part Two of the foundational work of Chabad thought, Likutei Amarim - Tanya: "Shaar Hayichud ...
Chapter 4 of "Gateway to [Divine] Union and Cognizance"
Why is the world not transparent to the divine word that brings it into being out of nothing at every moment? The sixth in a series of classes on Part Two of the foundational work of Chabad thought, Likutei Amarim - Tanya: "Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah," by ...
Chapter 3 of "Gateway to [Divine] Union and Cognizance"
The physical world presents its reality as a brute fact. But is it really nothing? The fifth in a series of classes on Part Two of the foundational work of Chabad thought, Likutei Amarim - Tanya: "Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah," by the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Schn...
Chapter 2 of "Gateway to [Divine] Union and Cognizance"
What does personal Divine providence mean and why should we believe in it? Does the principle of providence conflict with the principle of free will? What does all this have to do with the philosophical argument that the world must be recreated anew every...
Why is the Baal Shem Tov cited in Chapter 1 of "Gateway to [Divine] Union and Cognizance"?
Marking the 260th yahrtzeit of the Baal Shem Tov, we discuss his teaching on union through speech, whether in prayer, Torah study, or in any other utterance, however mundane. This helps us to understand the significance of this treatise by Rabbi Schneur Z...
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