The Tosafot approached the gemara as an ever expanding expression of Gd’s law, the Haside Ashkenaz saw the world as an infinite expression of Divine will. The pietist movement of the 13th century is lesser known than that founded in the 18th, but its influence on the culture of Ashkenaz is far more fundamental.
Haside Ashkenaz
Introduction
Mike Feuer
Rabbi Mike Feuer teaches Striving for the Divine, Rav Kook, and Jewish History at Pardes. He studied at Yeshivat HaMivtar, the Mir Yeshiva, and Sulam Yaakov, where he received rabbinic ordination and later served as Educational Director. Mike’s teaching combines rigorous textual analysis with a deep love of the poetry and spirituality found in Torah.
Since making aliyah in 2001, he has been the program director of a post-high school yeshiva and taught history, Jewish thought, and Bible in several Jerusalem yeshivot and midrashot. Today, as a consultant, spiritual counselor and creator of the Jewish Story podcast, Mike is driven by the power of story to shape our world.