Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity, forthcoming from @stanfordpress | contributing ed. @Chabad | PhDed @uclhjs | only humility is revolt ~Aaron Zeitlin
Dec 20, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Today I told Prof. Susannah Heschel a story about the Apter Rov and Rabbi Levi Yitzchok of Barditchev, which also involved the Alter Rebbe and the Heilige Ruzhiner. By the time I finished she was quietly sobbing. "I am a descendant of all of them" she said. #AJS21
Rabbi Yisrael of Ruzhin told the following story: When the Rabbi [Avraham Yehoshua Heshel] of Apt came to the city of Jassy, on the Holy Sabbath he delivered a great homily. And present there were people referred to by the name Habad who made sport of this ...
Mar 21, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Purim is a fitting day for this to be published Kavka on Wolfson, 'The Duplicity of Philosophy's Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other' [review]
The establishment of an independent department of Education was of the biggest political battles of Jimmy Carter's presidency. Almost all religious organizations and conservative politicians opposed the plan, but it was strongly supported by the Lubavitcher Rebbe 1/9
The Rebbe argued that breathing new life into public education would go a long way towards healing many other social ills, and even a considerable spending increase would be offset by diminishing expenditures related to crime prevention, healthcare and welfare 2/9
