Kabbalah & Chassidism; Mysticism

The second half of the last millennium (1500 until today) saw still newer developments in Halachah, as well as in other fields of literacy. How do these major literary trends (such as Chassidism) define Judaism today and into the future?

This lecture-series presents an overview of the primary ideas in the foundational book of Chassidism. The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life. Tanya has revolutionized the way we th...

Following a period of terrible demoralization for the Jewish people that included the Chmielnicki uprising and the Shabtai Tzvi debacle, new hope arose in the form of the Chasidic movement.

A brief biographical overview of the founder of the Chasidic movement, Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760).

The Chassidic masters were revolutionaries of their time. Breathing new life into a world that was still reeling from the pogroms and expulsions of the middle ages, they set Jewish thought on a new course. In this last installment of the Rebbe's Teachings...

Asher Crispe looks for a sort of Torah's "Bill of Rights," that is, the different freedoms and liberties granted to us in the Torah and how each corresponds to another of the Ten Sefirot.

A Kabbalistic perspective on science's attempt to formulate an overarching explanation for all existence takes us through the dimensions of space, time and spirit.