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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...
Dr. Norman Lamm

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...

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...

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...

The Yemima Method: An Israeli Psychological-Spiritual Approach

...recently to 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...

Personalizing Torah for Today’s Student: Lessons from Israel

...but also for its accompanying underlying values. One thinks in this context of the work of Rav Shagar or Chaim Saiman’s recent book on Halakhah.[6] The goal, but as only...

Is Modern Orthodox Kiruv Possible?

...(Shagar) in the context of describing an “authentic Haredi” approach that could help the Israeli Dati Leumi community by being confidently able to …choose itself without rejecting or delegitimizing other...

The Rational Theology of Rav Aharon Lichtenstein

David Landes z”l Our father, Dr. David J. Landes z”l, attended Yeshivat Har Etzion for several years in the 1970s and remained an active alumnus of the Yeshiva until his...

A Journey to the Land of Prayer

...the late twentieth century. The three rabbis – Rabbi Shagar z”l, Rabbi Menachem Froman z”l, and Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz– are responsible for the change of the discourse of this community....

Rationalism, Mysticism, and the “Off-the-Derekh” Phenomenon

...the religious conversation (a view best seen in the contemporary work of R. Shagar), a stultifying corruption of the religious impulse (a view most strongly expressed in the work of...