"only humility is revolt" —Aaron Zeitlin
Existential historian of religion, rupture, kabbalah, hasidism, philosophy, literature, and modernity
📘*Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism*
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Eli Rubin
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At the start of my PhD I unsuccessfully tried to figure out how to use those auto citation tools, I've always done them manually, and spent at least an hour today typing out footnotes
“The hasidic epic, and the versification of that epic, is aligned with lofty celestial phenomena, within which lie the mysteries of existence, of the chain of being (seder hahishtalshalut), and of what transcends that chain”
— Hillel Zeitlin on Likkutei Dibburim
Great photos from last week's translation fellowship at the Princeton Institute for Hasidic Thought!
New review of *Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity*, in the Judaica journal, by Daniel Reiser
doi.org/10.36950/jnd...
From Existence of Existence to Being of Being
Reflections from a week at the Princeton Institute of Hasidic Thought
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"... Rubin's book is a landmark contribution to the study of Chabad Hasidism and to Jewish Studies more broadly, and I warmly welcome it as a reminder that the philosophical depths of Hasidic literature deserve rigorous scholarly attention in their own right."
"Eli Rubin's Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity is an ambitious and deeply learned monograph that traces the intergenerational evolution of the kabbalistic concept of ṣimṣum (divine contraction or withdrawal) across seven generations of Chabad-Lubavitch leadership."
"Eli Rubin's Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity is an ambitious and deeply learned monograph that traces the intergenerational evolution of the kabbalistic concept of ṣimṣum (divine contraction or withdrawal) across seven generations of Chabad-Lubavitch leadership."
This does not sound dumb. This is how you stop yourself sounding dumb!
From Existence of Existence to Being of Being
Reflections from a week at the Princeton Institute of Hasidic Thought
elirubin.substack.com/p/from-exist...
Eli Rubin
From Existence of Existence to Being of Being
Reflections from a week at the Princeton Institute of Hasidic Thought
elirubin.substack.com/p/from-exist...
