The Center For Jewish Thought
To view as Pdf click here By Rabbi Amiram Markel Life for the Jew in Tsarist Russia was never particularly pleasant. Russia did not undergo any period which could remotely be called a “Golden...
The ‘al chet’ of a young Rebbe.
Being inspired by chassidim and touching the infinite.
Our time is referred to as the heels of Moshiach. Therefore, G-d need not be too exacting.
The darkness before the light.
Chassidim once sat and discussed the way that the world will be after the coming of Moshiach. One of participants was an old chossid who had seen both the third and fourth Lubavitcher Rebbes. He...
By Rabbi Dovid Markel The chossid R. Chaim Moshe Alperovitz once related an exchange that he had with the chossid R. Yankel Zurbitzer. He recounted as follows: “Once, I met R. Yankel on...
During the time of the Baal Shem Tov, there was a certain town in which an edict was enacted to expel all the Jews. The people of the town came to the Baal Shem...
In a certain town in Europe of old lived a certain Jew, who was both a Torah scholar and G-d fearing, who did the mitzvah of hosting wayfarers in an exemplary fashion. He had...
When the 5th Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom Dovber, was a child, he played with his older brother, Reb Zalman Aharon (Raza). During the course of their antics, Reb Zalman Aharon dug a pit and...
Rabbi Avraham Bar Hiyya’s Defense of Astrology
18 Dec, 2015
18 Dec, 2015
The Litigants’ Appointment of the Court
26 Nov, 2015
On The Disqualification of Personal Testimony
11 Nov, 2015
Rabbi Tzadok and Willpower Fatigue
7 Nov, 2015
18 Dec, 2015
From Exile To Redemption (Full Essay)
18 Feb, 2013
9 Dec, 2013
Parshas Noach – Perfect In His Generation
4 Oct, 2013
27 May, 2013
