Chabad-Revisited

Assorted reflections on the oral teachings of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi

The real deal on Chabad’s apocalyptic calculations, and why Jews have always predicted elusive ends. The suspicion with which Jewish m...

Isaiah Berlin and his wife Aline, Oxford, 1969; photograph by Dominique Nabokov Last month Aline de Gunzbourg, the wife of Isaiah Berlin...

As much as he was a chassidic rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (known as the Rebbe Rayatz or Friediker Rebbe) also epitomized what i...

"no longer a dance, but a kind of silent prayer, offered by a body of flickering flame..." The following is translated from ...

If the deity is infinite and omnipotent, can the deity simultaneously combine two mutually-exclusive events? The true nature of the divine...

In a recent post on the New York Times Opinionater Blog “The Stone,” Yoram Hazony discussed the question, “Is G-d perfect?” While I didn’t ...

Reflections on the Enduring Relevance of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson’s Religious Thought First posted at hasidology  on chabad.org [I...

I just watched this video account by Jerry Levine of his "encounter with the Rebbe". In general I'm not one for miracle tal...

I'm very pleased to announce that my new blog Hasidology: Studies in Chasidic Thought and History  has now been launched at chabad.org/a...