Towards a Progressive neo-Hasidism
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Avidan Halivni, Holiday Fellow
Holiday Fellow, Avidan Halivni translates a a teaching from R. Tzadok HaKohen of Lublin for those seeking a textual exploration that connects the Tu B’Shvat Seder to a redemptive eating practice. This text is paired with a visual representation by Eva Sturm-Gross of the spiritual ascent through the Four Worlds of Kabbalah symbolized by the arc of the Tu B’Shvat Seder, presented as if one is climbing a tree.
Avidan Halivni explores the ethical implications of how Hanukkah teaches us to treat the Other. By putting a Baal Shem Tov teaching in conversation with the thought of 20th century philosopher Emmanual Levinas, he argues that “to welcome the guest.. is to create an encounter with the Divine Light that the guest embodies.” And it is that Divine Light in the Other, Halivni teaches, that the Hanukkah candles represent.
Primary Sources​
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MShem MiShmuel, Shmini Atzeret 5677 (1912)
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Tzemach Hashem LeTzvi, Ekev 2
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R. Gershon Henoch of Radzin, Sod Yesharim 25:1, Shemini Atzeret
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A selection of sources – classical and contemporary, from a wide variety of Hasidic and other Jewish traditions –to enrich your traditional haggadah and stimulate deeper reflections around the values of Passover in the modern world.
Gwyneth N.A. Hernandez, Gashmius Staff
Sources from:
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Rav Tzvi Elimelech Shapira of Dinov
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Mishnah Rosh Hashanah
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Taya Amit
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Gloria Anzaldúa
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Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners & Beth Richie
The Chanukkah Light Unseen: Dedicating Ourselves to the Unwritten, Miraculous Future is an essay by Risa Dunbar which was originally published in the All That’s Left 2023 Chanukkah Reader.
Source: Rav Tzadok HaKohen Rabinowitz of Lublin
The Offering Beyond Space and Time:
An essay by Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman that unpacks a previously untranslated teaching by the Sfat Emet, Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh Leib Alter (1847-1905).
Sources from:
- Levi Yitshak of Berditchev
- Rabbi Kohenet Jill Hammer
- Emmanuel Levinas
