CONTEMPORARY USES AND FORMS OF HASIDUT (The Orthodox Forum)
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CONTEMPORARY USES AND FORMS OF HASIDUT (The Orthodox Forum)

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edited by Shlomo Zuckier
Shmuel Hain, Series Editor
Robert S. Hirt, Founding Chair & Series Editor (1988-2013)

Hardcover, 516 Pages
Yeshiva University Press, KTAV Publishing House, Urim Publications, April 2022
Recent years have seen a shift in the approach to religious life among members of the Israeli Religious Zionist and the American Modern Orthodox communities. The trend towards spirituality, and to Hasidic teachings and practices in particular, is noteworthy and deserving of exploration. This volume provides sociological information and historical context situating this trend, explores relevant themes of Hasidic theology and praxis, and takes stock of new directions in Hasidut and spirituality. A range of leading American and Israeli thinkers – rabbis and philosophers, anthropologists and theologians – weigh in on these trends.


About the Editor
Rabbi Shlomo Zuckier, the editor of this volume, is the Simon and Ethel Flegg Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies at McGill University. He recently completed a Ph.D. in Religious Studies at Yale University and his tenure as a member of Yeshiva University’s Kollel Elyon. A Founder of The Lehrhaus, he previously served as Director of the Orthodox Union’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus at Yale University. Rabbi Zuckier is an alumnus of Yeshivat Har Etzion and Yeshiva University (B.A., M.A., semikhah), as well as of the Wexner, Tikvah, and Kupietzky Kodshim Fellowships. He serves on the editorial committee of Tradition and is co-editor of Torah and Western Thought: Intellectual Portraits of Orthodoxy and Modernity. Shlomo has taught at Yale Divinity School, Yeshiva College, the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, the Drisha Institute, Bnot Sinai, and Tikvah programs. His articles have appeared in the Torah u-Madda Journal, Tradition, The Lehrhaus, and Mosaic, as well as in journals of ancient Judaism.


Contributors
Rabbi Yitzchak Blau 
Rabbi Reuven Boshnack 
Dr. Yaakov Elman, z”l
Dr. Miriam Feldmann Kaye
Dr. Shlomo Fischer 
Dr. Paul Franks
Rabbi Shmuel Hain
Dr. David Landes, z”l
Dr. Ariel Evan Mayse
Rabbi Yakov Nagen 
Dr. Nehemia Polen 
Rabbi Zev Reichman
Alex Sztuden
Rabbi Yehuda Turetsky
Rabbi Shlomo Zuckier



Contents
Defining Neo-Hasidut: Then and Now 
Shlomo Zuckier, Editor
Part I: Hasidic Thought in Mitnagdic Thinkers
1. Pahad Yitzhak and Its Sources: An Opening Inquiry 
Yaakov Elman
2. Beyond the Ban: Rav Dessler’s Vision of a Yeshiva
Combining Lithuanian Lomdut, Chabad, and Polish Hasidut 
Paul Franks
3. “Everyone Asks Where He Is”: Mystical-Hasidic Elements
in U-Vikkashtem mi-Sham 
Alex Sztuden
Part II: Recent (Neo-)Hasidic Thinkers
4. The Development of Neo-Hasidism: Echoes and
Repercussions 
Ariel Evan Mayse
5. Niggun as Spiritual Practice, with Special Focus on the
Writings of Rabbi Kalonymus Shapira, the Rebbe of
Piaseczna 
Nehemia Polen
6. The Use of Hasidism in Responding to the Challenges of
Postmodernism and Technology: The Case of Rav Shagar 
Miriam Feldmann Kaye
Part III: Sociology of Contemporary Neo-Hasidut
7. Post-Kookism and Neo-Hasidut 
Shlomo Fischer
8. The Year in Israel Has Changed: Neo-Hasidut and
American Modern Orthodoxy 
Yehuda Turetsky
9. Didan Notzach: Toward a Hasidic Modern Orthodoxy 
David Landes
Part IV: Theological Perspectives on Neo-Hasidut
10. Om Shalom: East Meets West in the Jewish Spirituality
Renaissance 
Yakov Nagen
11. Or Penimi: Why Penimiyut ha-Torah Might Help
Reinvigorate Our Synagogues 
Zev Reichman
12. The Appeal of Neo-Hasidut in the Twenty-First Century 
Reuven Boshnack
13. Hesitations Regarding Contemporary Neo-Hasidut
Yitzchak Blau