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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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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,...
Feeling “Off” on Yom Haatzmaut
...Shagar”) is virtually unknown in America outside the readership of Lehrhaus, Prof. Alan Brill’s blog, and another rarefied corner or two. Rabbi Dr. Yehuda Brandes is a pioneering figure in...
On Yom Kippur, determinism and national unity
...will of the blessed God to be such.[4] (Tzidkat Ha-Tzaddik 40, 100) In his masterful exposition of approaches to repentance, Shuvi Nafshi,[5] R. Shimon Gershon Rosenberg (R. Shagar) elaborates that...
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...
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