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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...
The Development of Neo-Hasidism: Echoes and Repercussions Part IV: Arthur Green and Conclusion
...Isaac Kook, as do the writings, teachers and teachings of Chabad and Breslov, but neo-Hasidic writers and teachers such as Rav Shagar have also played an important role.[19] Carlebach’s significant...
A Prehistory of Rav Kook
...national self. Even somewhat iconoclastic thinkers like Rav Shagar and Rav Froman who were willing to challenge Religious Zionist assumptions have tended to remain within this expressivist sensibility. Confronted with...
Mind Blown: Shofar as Divine Encounter Beyond the Limits of Human Comprehension
...personified evil forces. [4] In an innovative reading, Rav Shagar sees demystification beginning within the Talmudic text itself, in the manner in which the Gemara frames R. Yitzhak’s suggestion. Shimon...
The Yemima Method: An Israeli Psychological-Spiritual Approach
...articles about Rav Shagar and Rav Froman. That these fresh and exceptional thinkers sprang up on Israeli soil is, I would like to think, not mere coincidence. We declare energetically...
Dr. Norman Lamm’s Trailblazing Talmudic Methodology
...two decades have seen a rise in the popularity of non-halakhic spiritual texts, particularly hasidut. The popularity of Netivot Shalom, Sfat Emet, the Piazescner, and Rav Shagar, to name just...
Ameilut in the Age of AI
...Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Shagar identify connection and reflection as vital aspects of Torah study. R. Soloveitchik observes that the Talmud’s strange claim that the prohibitions against greeting others and...
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