Eli Rubin
@elirubin.bsky.social
"only humility is revolt" —Aaron Zeitlin
Existential historian of religion, rupture, kabbalah, hasidism, philosophy, literature, and modernity
📘*Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism*
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Existential historian of religion, rupture, kabbalah, hasidism, philosophy, literature, and modernity
📘*Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism*
elirubin.online
with flights cancelled I'm traveling home from the Princeton Hasidic Thought Symposium by the scenic train route
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
with flights cancelled I'm traveling home from the Princeton Hasidic Thought Symposium by the scenic train route
Tonight marks the yahrtzeit of the Rebbe Maharash, R. Shmuel Schneersohn of Lubavitch (1834-1882)
Here's a little piece from my series focusing on his wife, Rebbetzin Rivkah (read more here: chabad.org/6763123)
Here's a little piece from my series focusing on his wife, Rebbetzin Rivkah (read more here: chabad.org/6763123)
October 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Tonight marks the yahrtzeit of the Rebbe Maharash, R. Shmuel Schneersohn of Lubavitch (1834-1882)
Here's a little piece from my series focusing on his wife, Rebbetzin Rivkah (read more here: chabad.org/6763123)
Here's a little piece from my series focusing on his wife, Rebbetzin Rivkah (read more here: chabad.org/6763123)
"a rich intellectual portrait of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement"
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August 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"a rich intellectual portrait of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement"
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just finished drafting my paper for the forthcoming @jewishstudies.bsky.social conference
July 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
just finished drafting my paper for the forthcoming @jewishstudies.bsky.social conference
I finally finished reading this book. Much more than a novel, it's a profound reflection on perennial quandaries / dissatisfactions that are theological, historical, philosophical, and familial.
I'm already ready to start reading it again
I'm already ready to start reading it again
June 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I finally finished reading this book. Much more than a novel, it's a profound reflection on perennial quandaries / dissatisfactions that are theological, historical, philosophical, and familial.
I'm already ready to start reading it again
I'm already ready to start reading it again
I'll be at Princeton University for a book talk with Professor Laura Leibman. Join us if you're around!
May 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I'll be at Princeton University for a book talk with Professor Laura Leibman. Join us if you're around!
Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity (@stanfordpress.bsky.social) has launched (at Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh)!
May 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity (@stanfordpress.bsky.social) has launched (at Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh)!
This Sunday in Pittsburgh!
heinzhistorycenter.org/events/
heinzhistorycenter.org/events/
May 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This Sunday in Pittsburgh!
heinzhistorycenter.org/events/
heinzhistorycenter.org/events/
got up far too early this morning to virtually participate in this excellent panel (organized by @wtworek.bsky.social) at a conference currently ongoing in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine
April 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
got up far too early this morning to virtually participate in this excellent panel (organized by @wtworek.bsky.social) at a conference currently ongoing in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine
NEW ARRIVAL!
Sacred Emotions: Fear of Sin in Early Hasidism, by Leore Sachs-Shmueli
from @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Sacred Emotions: Fear of Sin in Early Hasidism, by Leore Sachs-Shmueli
from @stanfordpress.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEW ARRIVAL!
Sacred Emotions: Fear of Sin in Early Hasidism, by Leore Sachs-Shmueli
from @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Sacred Emotions: Fear of Sin in Early Hasidism, by Leore Sachs-Shmueli
from @stanfordpress.bsky.social
On a spring morning in 1796, in front of Vilna’s Great Synagogue, a crowd milled around a flaming bonfire. It was the day before the festival of Passover, when no bread or risen-dough may remain in the possession of a Jew ... Any that remains is consigned to the flames ...
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April 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
On a spring morning in 1796, in front of Vilna’s Great Synagogue, a crowd milled around a flaming bonfire. It was the day before the festival of Passover, when no bread or risen-dough may remain in the possession of a Jew ... Any that remains is consigned to the flames ...
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today is publication day for my award winning book, Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity!
Please help me celebrate by posting pictures of your copy when it arrives, or letting me know that you've ordered it
Order directly from @stanfordpress.bsky.social and use code RUPTURE20 for 20% off
today is publication day for my award winning book, Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity!
Please help me celebrate by posting pictures of your copy when it arrives, or letting me know that you've ordered it
Order directly from @stanfordpress.bsky.social and use code RUPTURE20 for 20% off
March 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🎉🥳🍾🥳🎉
today is publication day for my award winning book, Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity!
Please help me celebrate by posting pictures of your copy when it arrives, or letting me know that you've ordered it
Order directly from @stanfordpress.bsky.social and use code RUPTURE20 for 20% off
today is publication day for my award winning book, Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity!
Please help me celebrate by posting pictures of your copy when it arrives, or letting me know that you've ordered it
Order directly from @stanfordpress.bsky.social and use code RUPTURE20 for 20% off
tomorrow is publishing day for two greatly anticipated books ...
but only one of them is the #1 New Release in Kabbalah & Mysticism
but only one of them is the #1 New Release in Kabbalah & Mysticism
March 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
tomorrow is publishing day for two greatly anticipated books ...
but only one of them is the #1 New Release in Kabbalah & Mysticism
but only one of them is the #1 New Release in Kabbalah & Mysticism
“A little book you can actually read over Shabbos!”
*The Lamdonis* was highlighted in the "I Read This Over Shabbos" substack newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/ireadthi...
*The Lamdonis* was highlighted in the "I Read This Over Shabbos" substack newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/ireadthi...
March 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
“A little book you can actually read over Shabbos!”
*The Lamdonis* was highlighted in the "I Read This Over Shabbos" substack newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/ireadthi...
*The Lamdonis* was highlighted in the "I Read This Over Shabbos" substack newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/ireadthi...
Use Rupture20 to get 20% off when you order Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity directly from Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Use Rupture20 to get 20% off when you order Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity directly from Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social
The Lamdonis: Rebbetzin Devorah Leah of Vitebsk and the origins of Chabad Chassidus
Adapted and translated by Eli Rubin from *Lubavitcher Rebbin's Zichroines,* by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the sixth rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch
available in hardback and digital editions
Adapted and translated by Eli Rubin from *Lubavitcher Rebbin's Zichroines,* by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the sixth rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch
available in hardback and digital editions
February 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The Lamdonis: Rebbetzin Devorah Leah of Vitebsk and the origins of Chabad Chassidus
Adapted and translated by Eli Rubin from *Lubavitcher Rebbin's Zichroines,* by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the sixth rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch
available in hardback and digital editions
Adapted and translated by Eli Rubin from *Lubavitcher Rebbin's Zichroines,* by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the sixth rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch
available in hardback and digital editions
friends, if you're feeling tormented about what it means to be a modern Jew, I've got a book for that
February 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
friends, if you're feeling tormented about what it means to be a modern Jew, I've got a book for that
I spent some time at the post office today
February 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I spent some time at the post office today
dedication and table of contents
order *Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity* today!
@stanfordpress.bsky.social
order *Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity* today!
@stanfordpress.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
dedication and table of contents
order *Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity* today!
@stanfordpress.bsky.social
order *Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity* today!
@stanfordpress.bsky.social
author's copies have arrived!
February 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
author's copies have arrived!
This was a truly wild read
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
February 9, 2025 at 3:54 AM
This was a truly wild read
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
My contribution to this week's @jewishcurrents.bsky.social newsletter: on the proto-socialist miracle of the heavenly manna bread and the liberating restrictions of Shabbat
scroll down to read the parshah commentary
jewishcurrents.org/shabbat-read...
scroll down to read the parshah commentary
jewishcurrents.org/shabbat-read...
February 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
My contribution to this week's @jewishcurrents.bsky.social newsletter: on the proto-socialist miracle of the heavenly manna bread and the liberating restrictions of Shabbat
scroll down to read the parshah commentary
jewishcurrents.org/shabbat-read...
scroll down to read the parshah commentary
jewishcurrents.org/shabbat-read...
evidence has reached me that this book actually exists!
(courtesy of my colleague, the great Tzvi Freeman)
(courtesy of my colleague, the great Tzvi Freeman)
February 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
evidence has reached me that this book actually exists!
(courtesy of my colleague, the great Tzvi Freeman)
(courtesy of my colleague, the great Tzvi Freeman)