...Shaul Magid A Hidden Light: Stories and Teachings of Early Habad and Bratzlav Hasidism by Schachter-Shalomi Zalman Miles-Yepez Netanel Gaon Books , 2011 Copyright © 2012 Tikkun magazine 2012 A hidden light is the interesting experiment of an insider who stands...

... Schachter-Shalomi, My Life in Jewish Renewal , pp. 15–16 and pp. 30–31. 1 As I explained above, this essay is designed as an appreciative introduction to Reb Zalman’s vision of interreligious engagement, including his evolving relationship to Hasidism. Each of these areas of study is deserving...

... a crew of outstanding male thinkers (David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel C. Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gadi Sagiv and Marcin Wodzinski) to create a definitive history of the Hasidic movement in Judaism, whose 875 pages tell the objective, scholarly story of how this religious movement...

... will depend at least in part on how Jewish Renewal’s practitioners acknowledge, understand, and critically engage in the radical program of their own making. I have used postmonotheism here as a marker to distinguish Paradigm Shift Judaism from neo-Hasidism. Some will reject its premises. Some will accept...

... A Heart Afire: Stories and Teachings of the Early Hasidic Masters , Schachter-Shalomi Zalman Miles-Yepez Netanel , The Jewish Publication Society , 2009 Sun of God , Sams Gregory , Red Wheel/Weiser , 2009 A Jihad for Love , Sharma Parvez , DVD from Halal...

... hasid made his w ay to ay w his made hasid the young Kippur, Yom before orning m the so, on d n...

...-war rally at the White and singers, has created a prayerful gem of as an imagining of our his­ House, in response to Laura a CD that I (as one who deeply resonates tory. Bush’s politically minded cancel­ with Sephardic and Hasidic...

... Messiah some con­ believed; had arrived and earth.now the walked After converted that Messiah (under duress) Islam,to trauma: the Sabbatean heresy, during which one-third of European Jews believed the Messiah took place in the Hasidic in movement the late eighteenth centuiy...

... (as one who deeply resonates tory. Bush’s politically minded cancel­ with Sephardic and Hasidic music) believe In “1972: The Battery,” the lation of a poetry “salon.” Then will become a classic. It’s as if he were chan­ weather, adolescent...

... century), and the early Hasidic masters Shneur Zalman of Liadi and Zev Wolf of Zhitomir (eighteenth century). In each of them he finds passages that extend beyond the personal images of the deity, reaching toward a notion of God as universal soul to the world as body (an image, as he shows, that reaches...

... posed by ecological thought. Ecological thought forces us to invent ways of being together that don’t depend on self-interest. Menachem Kallus has provided us with some of the most important teachings of the founder of Hasidism in this book, which he describes as “Guidance in Contemplative...

... of Hasidism, and more familiar with the insights of Helen Schucman’s book A Course in Miracles. Nevertheless, he comes up with insights that are not only consistent with Hasidism and liberation theology, but also deepen their insights. In Rosenthal’s view, Moses and Pharaoh are dueling aspects of the human...

... a misnagdic tradition, which valued scholarship and objected to Hasidism, “the … movement that insisted that belief and emotion mattered … above scholarship and rational thought.” The Rav was not only an avid scholar, but also a man of faith. He believed and “wrote that God had ordained that there should...

... for himself,” David Shaddock writes. In order to fully encounter the Divine, we need to develop what Martin Buber famously called an “I/Thou” relationship with him. Buber drew on the legacy of Hasidism for his notion of what I am calling an intersubjective relationship with God, just as Levertov, from...

... kabbalist. Following the Holocaust, Hasidic Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (bottom) was also believed to be the messiah by a faction of his followers. Top: Creative Commons/Joods Historisch Museum. Bottom: Creative Commons/Mordecai Baron. / Jewish history’s best known false messiah was Rabbi Shabtai Zvi...

... through the Kabbalistic and Hasidic ones. Heschel argued that these periods are Wunified by the theme of God’s concern for humanity. The different expressions of Judaism...

... Joshua Heschel said of Rabbi Klein’s M ystical Haggadah is an ries and personal advice from Hasidic the famous march from Selma, Alabama ambitious undertaking. It has two goals. rebbes. But w hat does this practice teach us with Rev. M artin Luther King, “I felt as if The first...

... medieval women call on the Shekhinah ing us. We can luxuriate in its rich tapestry in childbirth? Was the Shabbos Queen of of sound and poetry and simultaneously the Hasids for men only? Did women experience the exalted grandeur...