In November 2022, OpenAI – a non-profit organization – released a free preview of ChatGPT. This triggered widespread interest in generative AI and leading to the ongoing AI boom. By March 2023, OpenAI released a new model – GPT-4 –…
Self & Spirituality, Hasidut, Podcast Series, The Maggid of Melbourne
The notion of a women serving as pontifex maximus, the bishop of Rome, sovereign of papal states, and the visible head of the Catholic Church – seems incongruous. Yet a legend first recorded in the thirteenth century identifies just such…
Self & Spirituality, Hasidut, Podcast Series, The Maggid of Melbourne
The Passover Seder night is all about the faculty of speech. We talk, explain, pose questions and offer answers, discuss, and recount the story of our people. Indeed, the Hebrew word for Passover, Pesah, is a portmanteau for peh sah…
Self & Spirituality, Hasidut, Jewish Prayer, Podcast Series, The Maggid of Melbourne
The Battle of the Vale of Siddim – or as it is known in Jewish tradition: The War of the Four Kings against the Five (Genesis 14:1-17) – was a result of longstanding tensions in the Jordan River plain during…
Podcast Series, The Maggid of Melbourne, Hasidic Lore Series, Self & Spirituality, Hasidut, Laws of Government
The following article was published on April 13, 2020. Many people obsess over counting the Omer. “Did you count yet?” “What was last night?” “Don’t forget to count!” In fact, this obsession has roots in Jewish, and specifically hasidic, tradition.…
Podcast Series, The Maggid of Melbourne, Hasidic Lore Series, Self & Spirituality, Hasidut, Jewish Calendar
Enjoy learning with Rabbi Dr. Levi Cooper? Check out his podcast series! The following article is the second in the series “Navigating Excessive Spirituality”. With God While Eating Dov Ehrman was born around 1860 and grew up in the…
Podcast Series, The Maggid of Melbourne, Hasidic Lore Series, Self & Spirituality, Hasidut, Navigating Excessive Spirituality
Enjoy learning with Rabbi Dr. Levi Cooper? Check out his podcast series! The following article is the first in the series “Navigating Excessive Spirituality”. Intense Devekut The goal of the mystic is to reach a state of devekut. The experience…
Podcast Series, The Maggid of Melbourne, Hasidic Lore Series, Self & Spirituality, Hasidut, Navigating Excessive Spirituality
A short reference in a popular book can trigger a surprising reaction. This is what happened when Rabbi Zvi Elimelekh Shapira of Dynów (1783-1841) briefly recounted a discussion about a seemingly insignificant topic. The discussion centered around the appropriate blessing…
Jewish History, Early Hasidic Era, Podcast Series, The Maggid of Melbourne, Hasidic Lore Series, Self & Spirituality
Rabbi Akiva Eger (1761-1837) was a great talmudic mind, famous for his succinct annotations to classic texts. His notes on the Babylonian Talmud were first published during his lifetime as an addendum to the tomes of Talmud printed in Prague…
Podcast Series, The Maggid of Melbourne, Hasidic Lore Series, Self & Spirituality, Hasidut
When the Second Cholera Pandemic reached Prussia in 1831, Rabbi Eliyahu Guttmacher (1796-1874) was serving in his first rabbinic post in the Pleschen, Prussia (today Pleszew, Poland), a position he had held since 1822 thanks to the initiative of his…
Podcast Series, The Maggid of Melbourne, Hasidic Lore Series, Self & Spirituality, Hasidut
The image of a great Jewish law jurist, a paragon of scholarly Talmudic learning, doling out mystical amulets was difficult for some minds to grasp. During the 1831 Second Cholera Pandemic, the great Rabbi Akiva Eger (1761-1837), chief rabbi of…
Podcast Series, The Maggid of Melbourne, Hasidic Lore Series, Self & Spirituality, Hasidut
The first collection of hasidic tales that recounts the adventures of the Besht (Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov, ca.1700-1760) was published in 1814, fifty-four years after the demise of the hero of the work. The collection was entitled Shivhei HaBesht…
Podcast Series, The Maggid of Melbourne, Hasidic Lore Series, Self & Spirituality, Hasidut
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