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Can You See the Light and the Darkness?

...Mekhon Le-kitvei Ha-Rav Shagar, 2012), 100–109. [8] Ba-yom Ha-hu, 64. [9] Rav Shagar, Le-ha’ir Et Ha-petahim: Derashot U-ma’amarim Le-yemei Hanukkah (Alon Shvut: Mekhon Le-kitvei Ha-Rav Shagar, 2014), 88-93. [10] Sefer...

In Search of Modern Orthodoxy

In introducing his embrace of Rav Shagar, Rabbi Dr. Gil Perl details his personal journey of being initially excited, then disappointed with the writings of our teacher, Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein....

There Is Nothing New Under the Sun: A Reply to Gil Perl

...promotes Rav Shagar’s approach as one way to speak in a postmodern yet faithful voice, advocating both a rejection of objective truth and a pluralism that refuses to assume any...

Inside Joke: The Spiritual Genius of Rav Menachem Froman

...a rosh metivta in Yeshivat Siach Yitzchak (founded by R. Shagar and R. Yair Dreyfuss), relates that at the funeral of R. Shagar, Rav Froman got up to speak about...

On Religious Jewish Counterculture in Translation

...last few years. On the other hand, American readers have lately been exposed to a more recent cohort of Israeli rabbis. Foremost among these are Rabbi Shimon Gershon Rosenberg (Shagar)...

Theologies of Prayer: Dov Singer and Arthur Green in “Conversation”

...of his primary teachers, Rav Shagar. On the subject of prayer, Shagar writes as follows: I pray, but am I certain that I will be answered? No, I am not...

The Utilitarian Case for Torah u-Madda

...response–is R. Shagar. R. Shagar’s greatness lay in his fusion of profound empathy for and understanding of his students, with a return to the immediate historical circumstances, as well as...

Poems for a World Built, Destroyed, and Rebuilt

...thought of Nir’s teacher, R. Shimon Gershon Rosenberg (Shagar). Shagar once remarked to Nir that when he, Shagar, had been recovering in a burn ward in Haifa during the war,...

Hasidim and Academics Debate a Rebbe’s Faith during the Holocaust (on Facebook, of all...

...1943. This refusal to relinquish his Torah is the undeniable proof of his intact faith. Rav Shagar (Shimon Gershon Rosenberg, 1949-2007) argued that the existential, immediate, and ineffable experience of...

Thoughts on Aliyah and the Akeidah from Israel at war

...of inspiration for the current situation. Rav Shagar had a distinct perspective on the akeidah which is closely related to his life-long concern with the challenge of post-modernism to halakhic...