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How Did Chanukah Become a Jewish Holiday?
A series of ancient letters to Egyptian Jews reveals how the Hasmonean victory became a Jewish celebration to this very day.
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Alon Shalev: How Rav Hutner Found Existential Meaning
Shalev, Author of Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner’s Theology of Meaning, talks existentialism, individualism, and more.
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Rav Tzadok of Lublin on History and Halacha
Rav Tzadok held fascinating views on the history of rabbinic Judaism, but his writings are often cryptic and…
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We speak with Joey Rosenfeld about how our generation can understand suffering.
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Why did this Hasidic Rebbe move from Poland to Israel, only to change…
The Book That’s Also a Rebbe
Why Yud-Tes Kislev is sneakily an extremely bookish holiday
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Shalev, Author of Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner’s Theology of Meaning, talks existentialism, individualism, and…
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How can our generation understanding mysticism, philosophy, and suffering in today’s chaotic world?
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To talk about the history of Jewish mysticism is in many ways to talk about the history of the mystical community.
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