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The radical thought of Rabbi Kalonymous Kalmish Shapiro הי"ד
LSJS January – February 2010
From the LSJS website:
You will study select writings of Rabbi Kalonymous Kalmish Shapira, the Piaseczno Rebbe. He was a radical educational theorist, teacher of meditation and a profound student of the psychological horrors of the Holocaust, in which he perished. This course will examine his educational methodology, his programme for building an inspired religious community, and his Holocaust diary, discovered in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Course materials
Session 1: Introduction and Chovat HaTalmidim - radical educational theory (1)
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Session 2: Chovat HaTalmidim - radical educational theory (2)
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Session 3: Meditation, music and self-mastery
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Session 4: Beney Machshavah Tovah - the elite society
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Session 5: Aish Kodesh - Torah from the Holocaust (1)
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Session 6: Aish Kodesh - Torah from the Holocaust (2) and thoughts on Purim
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Radical trends in 19th century Polish Chassidic thought
LSJS January - March 2009 From the LSJS website:
19th century Chassidic Poland produced some of the great radical thinkers of modern Jewish history, including R. Simchah Bunim of Przysucha, R. Tzadok HaKohen of Lublin, and the Rebbes of Kotzk, Ishbitz, Sochaczew, Radzin and Gur. Combining the Zeitgeist, traditional scholarship and Kabbalistic knowledge with profound psychological insight, these thinkers offered a revisionist understanding of Jewish philosophy, Biblical narrative and even of Judaism itself. This course will explore these figures, their ideas, writings and the controversies surrounding them.
Rebbe Chart and bibliography
Part 1 - Introduction and early thinkers
(download)Session 1a - From the Baal Shem Tov to the Noam Elimelech
Session 1b - The Chozeh of Lublin and the Yid HaKadosh
Part 2 - Przysucha and Kotsk
(download)Session 2a - Rabbi Simchah Bunim of Przysucha
Session 2b - Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotsk
Part 3 - Ishbitz (1)
(download)Session 3a - Rabbi Mordechai Yosef of Ishbitz and Determinism
Session 3b - Ishbitz Uncertainty and Antinomianism (1)
Part 4 - Ishbitz (2)
Session 4a - Ishbitz Antinomianism (2) and Radical Revisionsim
Session 4b - Rabbis Yaakov and Gershom Henoch of Ishbitz/Radzin
Part 5 - Sochaczew
(download)Session 5a - Rabbi Avraham of Sochaczew in his own writings
Session 5b - Rabbi Avraham of Sochaczew in his son's writings
Part 6 - Rabbi Tzaddok HaKohen and Gur
(download)Session 6a - Rabbi Tzaddok HaKohen of Lublin
Session 6b - Rabbis Yitzchak Meir and Yehudah Aryeh Leib of Gur
Rabbi of the Golders Green Synagogue in London, rabbinic mentor for University Jewish Chaplaincy, teaching fellow at LSJS, lecturer, writer, rabbinical advisor, trouble-maker, and post-graduate philosophy student.
Curious about anything interesting, but particularly enthusiastic about unusual Torah thinkers, especially 19th- and early 20th-century Polish Chassidic leaders, notably the Rebbes of Przysucha, Kock, Izbica-Radzin and Sochaczew.
Trying hard to juggle being a husband, father, rabbi, teacher, iconoclast and independent thinker. Succeeding some of the time.
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