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"Chabad's rich intellectual history and its place in the broad existential currents of modernity finally get their due with Rubin's stupendous book, which like its author, is a wonder of erudition, insight, and humility." —Yehudah Mirsky, Brandeis University

Oh, Europe! Rabbi Chaim Bruk Ten things I learned while traversing Europe with my family for two weeks in August of 2025. I welcome your comments but ask you to read to the end before chiming in....

nu?! sept 8 is nearly upon us

Leore Sachs-Shmueli, Sacred Emotions: Fear of Sin in Early Hasidism Samuel J. Spinner, Jewish Primitivism

Totally forgot to post this amazing sicha from the Rebbe zlt that I printed before Shabbos, translated by Rabbi Eli Rubin

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I wrote a (critical) review of Agnes Callard's book, Open Socrates! It also has a pretty lengthy summary of the main theses, which I'm quite proud of :-) let me know what you think xx open.substack.com/pub/escapingth…

Tsevie Gopin, 67, My Mother-in-Law She would have printed this article out and told me what she thought My article Chabad.org about my late mother-in-law, one of those powerful Jewish women without whom the world would crumble. chabad.org/news/article_c…

so pleased to see *Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity* among Ben Rothke's Best Books of 5785 blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-best-books…

ההעלם דר"ה הוא יותר אפילו מהעלם הצמצום, גם ההעלם דצמצום הראשון להבין ענין ראש השנה, יום ב' דראש השנה, ה'תשט"ז chabad.org/therebbe/artic…

'The Pen Shall Be Your Friend' - Examples of the Tzemach Tzedek’s Path in the Development of Chabad Chassidic Thought chabad.org/3286179

“The message is not relativism. It’s epistemological humility: the recognition that treating our ideas as absolute truth is a form of idolatry and the awareness that, though we might be confident in our opinions, we need not be dogmatic about them.”

G-d (muttering under His breath as the sun sets on the eve of Rosh Hashanah):

pre Rosh Hashanah reading recommendation from 18Forty I Read This Over Shabbos™️ Cody Michael Fitzpatrick

After Rosh Hashanah I heard the news of the sudden passing of my Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Kalmenson. Even though I only studied with him for a year when studying in New Haven in 1999/2000 he made a significant impact on the way I learn Torah.

New Sefer available here for download beH. Hard copies available for free at my home in RBS joeyrosenfeld.com/download-sefer