HeyJaredChabad Revisited
Historical and literary explorations of Chabad ideas and ideals
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Chabad Philosophy as “Escalating Conceptual Drama” (opens the original)
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Counting Sins as Merits (opens the original)
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Rebbetzin Rivkah’s Honey Cake (opens the original)
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As part of the preparation for Yom Kippur, there’s a widespread custom to ask someone else for a piece of lekach (sweet honey cake). This is usually explained as a kind of sublimation of any heavenly decree that might have been ordained upon us to need to seek the help of others in the course of the new year. It is also an opportunity to give and receive blessings and good wishes during this period of divine judgement and atonement, thereby eliciting the same from on-high.In many communities the
Leib Monossohn (1839–1896) of St. Petersburg and his Library (opens the original)
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A google search for Leib Monossohn brings up Leib Isaakovich Monossohn (1897–1967), who was born in Moscow but achieved fame as a popular singer in Weimer era Germany. This post is not about the singer, but about his grandfather and namesake, a leader of St. Petersburg’s Jewish community in the final decades of the nineteenth century, who I first encountered in the writings of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (Rayatz, 1880–1950). Searching for more information about him and his family, I came ac
Beyond Holocaust Time (opens the original)
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Back in 2019, I reviewed The Holocaust’s Jewish Calendars: Keeping Time Sacred, Making Time Holy (Indiana University Press), by Alan Rosen for The Lehrhaus. Last week the author informed me that it is now out in Hebrew, published by Yad Vashem Press.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LZzz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progr
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