Jewish Texts

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The Tzaddik, or Rebbe

A Hasidic spiritual leader believed to maintain a channel to God.

Shneur Zalman of Liady

Founder of the Chabad school of Hasidism.

Rabbenu Tam

The grandson of Rashi and leader of medieval French Jewry.

The Theology of Chabad

The problem of divine withdrawal inspires an alternate view of the universe.

Abraham Ibn Ezra

A master Torah commentator who foreshadowed biblical criticism

The Activism of Abraham

The lives of Abraham and Job provide us with two models for confronting poverty.

Kiss of Death

Midrash explains how Moses could be happy with dying.

Let My People Go

Exploring Moses and Aaron's confrontation with Pharaoh

Psalm 23: A New Translation

What if there is no valley of the shadow of death?

Midrash Tanhuma

A compilation of aggadic (narrative) and halachic (legal) midrash

Body of Land

In "escstatic" mysticism, the Land of Israel is a metaphor for the human body.

Mystical Israel

Medieval kabbalah offers various approaches to the Land of Israel.

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