The Lubavitch tradition

The Lubavitch tradition

Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections at the University of Colorado Boulder

2013

Stephanie Yuhas, Netanel Miles-Yepez, Deborah Fink, Sue Salinger, David Shneer, Andrew Violet, and Jacob Flaws.

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“I was drawn to the Lubavitch tradition, a form of Habad, because of its promise that one could become adept enough to attain certain mystical experiences in this lifetime. [. . .] I also liked the nature of the relationship between the Rebbe and the individual Hasid. In this kind of Hasidism, the Rebbe shows you the way, but you have to do the work yourself.”

“I enrolled in the Lubavitcher yeshiva in Brooklyn and spent the next ten years of my life studying and preparing to be a rabbi. This training was intense and served to ground me in the basic tenets of Jewish mysticism, which are grouped under the catch-all term kabbalah (literally, ‘that which is received’).”

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, First Steps to a New Jewish Spirit