Rabbi Yitzhak of Radziwiłłów was active as a hasidic master in the early nineteenth century. His father, the maggid (preacher) Rabbi Yehiel Mikhel of Złoczów (1731-1780s), was a hasidic leader in the early days of nascent Hasidism. Each of Rabbi…
Self & Spirituality, Spirituality, Podcast Series, The Maggid of Melbourne
In 1933, Rabbi Yisrael Bekmeister (1877-1954) published a twenty-page collection of hasidic tales. The collection included a fascinating tale that speaks to assessing the past year, as we approach the High Holy Days. **** Bekmeister’s slender booklet included fifteen tales…
Self & Spirituality, Reflection, Spirituality, Podcast Series, The Maggid of Melbourne, Jewish Calendar
A 1907 collection of hasidic tales by Rabbi Yisrael Berger (1855-1919), Eser Orot, offered a bevy of tales about Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berdyczów (1740-1809). Rabbi Berger was one of the key transmitters of hasidic tales, publishing a tetralogy that…
Self & Spirituality, Reflection, Spirituality, Podcast Series, The Maggid of Melbourne
Likkutei Tefillot is one of the fascinating books in the hasidic library. Written by Rabbi Natan Sternhartz of Nemirov (1780-1844), it does not fit neatly in the classic genres of hasidic writing. The work, as we have it today, is…
Self & Spirituality, Jewish Prayer, Reflection, Spirituality, Podcast Series, The Maggid of Melbourne
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
This was originally published August 20, 2013. We are now in the midst of the three weeks between the 17th of Tammuz and the 9th of Av, which recall the siege on Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple. Tradition…
Jewish Calendar, 17th of Tammuz, 9 days, Mishnah, Self & Spirituality, Spirituality
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
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)
The Torah, which we have just begun again this last week, begins “bereshit.” This opening word is often translated as “in the beginning” but we can perhaps more properly read as in a beginning, (rather than in the beginning which…
Self & Spirituality, Jewish Prayer, Spirituality
Becoming a Mensch: The Spiritual Path of Mussar and Tikkun Middot (Mussar is a thousand-year- old Jewish system for personal growth, specifically in the realm of character improvement; Tikkun Middot is the practice of refining/improving one’s character traits) with David Jaffe – Beit…
Self & Spirituality, Mussar, Podcast Series, Pardes Live and Mini-Series, Spirituality
Where is the intersection between Jewish spiritual practice and social action? Is there a connection between serving God and serving humanity? Global Torah is a five-part podcast series exploring the intersections of Jewish history, values and tradition with the practice…
Podcast Series, Pardes Live and Mini-Series, Critical Issues, Social Justice, Self & Spirituality, Spirituality
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