Chabad-Revisited

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...

Last night I sat with a few friends in a small shul in an anonymous corner of Crown Heights. We had gathered there on the evening before Y...

A couple of posts back I wrote about the complex depth of Jewish Mysticism, in general, and Chabad Chasidism in particular, as reflected i...

I just came across this passage (from Habad: the Hasidism of R. Shneur Zalman of Lyady, by Roman A. Foxbrunner) describing the ultimate Cha...