Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism by Eli Rubin

Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism

Stanford Studies in Jewish Mysticism

Eli Rubin

446 pages first pub 2025 (view editions)

nonfiction history religion
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Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity provides a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of Chabad Hasidism through the Kabbalistic concept of ṣimṣum. The onset of modernity, Eli Rubin argues, was heralded by this startling idea: exis...

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