
InSelf & Spirituality: Spiritual Practices
Preparing or wing it?
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…

InSelf & Spirituality: Spiritual Practices
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…

InSelf & Spirituality: Reflection
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…

InSelf & Spirituality: Reflection
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).…

InSelf & Spirituality: Jewish Prayer
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…

InSelf & Spirituality: Hasidut
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…

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…

InSelf & Spirituality: Jewish Prayer
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…

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…

InCritical Issues: Social Justice
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…