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God, Torah, Self: Accepting the Yoke of Heaven in the Writings of Rav Shagar

...Shagar explores the process of self-improvement. In the course of the discussion, Shagar uses “accepting the yoke of Heaven” with a clear meaning of self-construction: המלכות הינה יכולתו של האדם...

The Earth-Shattering Faith of Rav Shagar

...Shagar. Other installments in this series may be found here and here]. To read Rav Shagar is to encounter a thinker unlike any that American, Modern Orthodox Jews are familiar...

Religious Zionism: Beyond Left and Right

...Shagar took to be a foundational principle of Religious Zionism, one also affirmed by the teachings of Rav Kook. The Torah always contains the potential for renewal. As Rav Shagar...

“This Is Prayer”: Hitbodedut In Rav Shagar’s and Rav Elhanan Nir’s Writings

...Jewish texts more accessible to an English-speaking audience. Rav Shagar Shimon Gershon Rosenberg, known by the acronym R. Shagar, served as rosh yeshiva at Yeshivat HaKotel and Yeshivat Shefa and...

The New Jewish Philosophy of Rav Shagar

...believe to be the challenges of Rav Shagar’s philosophy with which we are faced. Postmodern Disenchantment and Rav Shagar on Multiple Values I agree with many others that the notion...

Renew Our Days as Days of Old

...a different outcome, one Rav Shagar describes as Kafkaesque.[1] Rather than die, they were condemned to a ghost-like existence far beneath the earth. According to Rav Shagar, the midrash’s depiction...
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On Subjectivity and Pluralism: Sparks of Rav Shagar’s Thought

...Shagar’s thought. It is impossible to summarize such a complex thinker as Rav Shagar’s in one short essay, and I do not think there is need nor interest in my...

The Soul of Man Under Postmodernism: Further comments on Rav Shagar’s contribution

...in my Afterword to the Shagar volume, I wish to offer two comments on Rabbi Perl’s essay. When he compares and contrasts Rav Shagar with mori ve-rabbi, Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein...

Postmodern Orthodoxy: Giving Voice to a New Generation

...feel that they know less rather than more. Enter Rav Shagar. Rav Shagar is deeply attuned to the shadows cast on the world of faith by the various elements of...

Notes on the Conversation surrounding Faith Shattered and Restored / Post-Modern Orthodoxy.

...in Rabbi Shagar’s teachings stems from a growing perception that Modern Orthodoxy has failed. The circumstances of this failure are, as described by Rabbi Shagar, the fate of a synthesis:...