The attached chapter, entitled “Halakhah” and written by Rabbi Levi Cooper is available as part of a new textbook that discusses thirteen different sources for the study of Hasidism: derashot, stories, writings of mitnaggedim, writings of maskilim, newspapers, archives, music,…
Self & Spirituality, Hasidut, Personal Transformation, Reflection, Spirituality
In our day and age, meaningful interaction has been replaced by sound bites, buzz words and emojis that create pseudo or “virtual” relationships. Here Tovah Leah Nachmani and Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield discuss the Jewish take on meaningful relationships to self,…
Self & Spirituality, Personal Transformation, Reflection
In the last episode of this season, join us and explore how the well-known and highly respected teacher and spiritual mentor Yiscah Smith found inspiration in the writings of Rav Kook to live in the tension between the demands of…
Personalities, Modern Personalities, Self & Spirituality, Personal Transformation, Spirituality, Podcast Series
Through a teaching of R. Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk (a Hasidic Rebbe who led a pre-Zionist Hasidic Aliyah to Israel) on this week’s parsha, Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels will explore the nature of transformation and how true transformation requires a dying…
Tanakh, Torah, Vayikra (Leviticus), Acharei Mot, Self & Spirituality, Personal Transformation
Kulam: The Pittsburgh Community Beit Midrash in partnership with Pardes presented: Jewish Wisdom & Eternal Human Dilemmas, a 6-part series taught by Rabbi Will Friedman interspersed with a 6-part virtual Beit Midrash. Part 1: Interpersonal Responsibility in a Global Age.…
Critical Issues, Modernity, Self & Spirituality, Personal Transformation
In this Podcast Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels looks at the Piaseczner Rebbe who discusses the crucial place of the body in our spiritual practice and the unique gift and contribution each one of us has to give to the task of…
Self & Spirituality, Personal Transformation, Spirituality, Tanakh, Torah, Bereishit (Genesis)
Pardes, in partnership with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and the NYU Center for Spiritual Life, held the Spirituality Retreat in December 2014. The retreat focused on introducing participants to life-transforming meditation practices and learning in the Jewish tradition. modes…
Self & Spirituality, Jewish Prayer, Personal Transformation, Spirituality
The Burmese Jewish community is not renowned for producing Jewish scholars. Yet the tale of a fascinating Baghdadi Jew from Rangoon and his quest to become a rabbi, reminds us of the presence of heroes even in far€ flung Jewish communities.…
Self & Spirituality, Personal Transformation, Spirituality
We have just entered the month of Elul, which sets the stage for the Days of Awe in the month of Tishrei. We very often think of the month of Elul as a solemn period, filled with penitential prayers, breast-beating,…
Jewish Calendar, Elul, Self & Spirituality, Personal Transformation, Rosh Chodesh, Rosh Hashana
In just a few days we will mark Tisha B’Av, the commemoration of the destruction of the Temple. Our sages give many reasons for the destruction of the Temple (both the first and second) and the subsequent exiles which resulted.…
Self & Spirituality, Personal Transformation, Jewish Calendar, Tisha B’av
How do we make conflict productive rather than destructive, how do we use our noticing of a problem as a way to create growth rather than enmity and how do we work with our anger to heal rather than destroy?…
Critical Issues, Mahloket Matters/Conflict Resolution, Self & Spirituality, Mussar, Personal Transformation, Resources for 9Adar
Ta’anit dibur, abstinence from speech, is a spiritual practice that has been favored by many. It is not a practice that is central to the spiritual enterprise of Hassidism, though there are examples within the hassidic milieu where it has…
Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Bo, Jewish History, Early Hasidic Era
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