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Not Everything I Needed to Know in Life I Learned in Rabbinical School
...depth, or read another volume of Rav Shagar, or work on one’s own avodat Hashem, or participate in tefillah in hitbodedut are somewhat compromised. This challenge is not new, and...
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...
Return… Again? Theories of Twice-Baked Teshuvah
...Rav Shagar.) In this context, the impetus to repeat repentance is a function not just of one’s generally more elevated spiritual state, but particularly of the temporal context of Yom...
Human Words: Rav Elhanan Nir’s “Intentions for Rosh Hashanah”
...Resling Publishing, 2018), 83–143. Both Mevorach and Nir were students of Rav Shagar and editors of his writings. [11] The call for “shouting” is likely a reference to Rebbe Nahman...
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...
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...
Prayer in an Age of Distraction
...that has taken place in Israel within the Religious Zionist community. He was a close student and friend of Rav Shagar, and founded the innovative yeshiva high school Makor Chayim...
Neil Gillman and the Postmodern Moment: A Student Reflects
...contributes to and broadens, I hope, The Lehrhaus’s recent series of articles on Rav Shagar and postmodern Jewish theology. Gillman’s most significant work of Jewish theology is his 1990 book,...