Kabbalah
Type of Jewish mysticism
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| May 2025 | Elected as vice-president of World Jewish Congress representing Ukraine. |
| 2024 | Andris Hiršs published a scholarly work 'Influence of personalism on Latvian theory up to the early twentieth century: substantiality and panentheism' in Studies in East European Thought, examining historical philosophical developments. |
| 2024 | Film 'Guns and Moses' was released to Jewish film festivals, portraying Rabbi Mo, a Chabad emissary, and his wife Rebbetzin Hindy, who face a white supremacist attack and subsequently train in firearms use. |
| 2023 | Released three singles - 'Whiskey Blues', 'The Cage', and 'Unconditional' - on multiple platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and various US and UK radios. |
| 2023 | Recorded the compositions in Paris for the Upside down Blues Album, with Shifrin singing 9 of the compositions. |
| 2023 | Released music videos for the three singles on YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok. |
| 2023 | Awarded the Cross of Freedom medal by the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in recognition of his work supporting Ukraine during the conflict with Russia. Was subsequently put on the wanted list by Russian authorities without warning. |
| 2023 | Co-edited 'Teaching the Shoah: Mandate and Momentum' with Zev Garber, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. |
| 2023 |
Ana BeKoach
Israeli hip-hop song by Dudu Faruk (Ori Comay) released, which includes a rapid recitation of Ana BeKoach at the end of the track
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| 2023 | Chabad.org website reported 52 million unique visitors and 102,129 content pages, becoming the largest faith-based website covering various aspects of Judaism. |
| 2022 | Eduard Shifrin wrote 12 jazz-rock-blues compositions, including music and lyrics, as part of the Shyfrin Alliance project. |
| 2022 | Closes all businesses in former-Soviet countries, marking the end of his business operations in the region. |
| 2022 | Eduard Shifrin publicly condemned Russia's aggression against Ukraine and submitted a request to the Russian embassy in London to renounce his Russian citizenship. He and his family donated to Ukrainian humanitarian organizations like World Jewish Relief to support people in and around war zones. |
| 2022 | Matt was honored with the Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Book Prize for his book 'Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation'. |
| 2022 | Published 'Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation' through Yale University Press in the Jewish Lives series |
| 2022 | An Israeli theatrical company produced a Chabad-themed musical that follows two young men from Kfar Chabad moving to Tel Aviv. The musical runs for 140 minutes. |
| July 23 2022 |
Joseph Dan
Joseph Dan passed away, concluding a distinguished career as a leading scholar of Jewish mysticism.
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| 2021 |
The Sword of Moses
Geoffrey Harris published an edition of 'The Sword of Moses' titled 'L'Épée de Moïse, H'arba de-Moshé, Traité de Magie Juive' through Sesheta-Publications.fr.
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| 2021 | Co-edited 'The Annotated Passover Haggadah' with Zev Garber, published by GCRR Press. |
| 2021 |
Sefer Raziel HaMalakh
Second volume of 'The Book of the Angel Raziel' translated from Hebrew and Aramaic by E. V. Kuzmin and published by Academy Of Culture's Research in St. Petersburg
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| 2021 | Published 'Middot: On the Emergence of Kabbalistic Theosophies' with KTAV Publishing House. |
| 2020 |
Lilith
New American Standard Bible (NASB) updates translation to 'night-bird'.
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| 2020 | His children's book Travels with Sushi in the Land of the Mind was named a Distinguished Favorite by the Independent Press Award for Juvenile Fiction. |
| 2020 | Acquires and sells several Moscow properties before finally leaving Russia. |
| 2020 | Co-authored 'Judaism and Jesus' with Zev Garber, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. |
| 2020 |
Sefer Raziel HaMalakh
First volume of 'The Book of the Angel Raziel' translated from Hebrew and Aramaic by E. V. Kuzmin and published by Academy Of Culture's Research in St. Petersburg
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| 2020 | Published 'Vocal Rites and Broken Theologies: Cleaving to Vocables in R. Israel Ba'al Shem Tov's Mysticism' with Crossroad. |
| 2020 |
Lilith
NASB updates its translation to 'night-bird'.
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| September 2020 | Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi, the Director of Tutors and author of the Kabbalah Society, passed away, marking a significant transition for the organization's leadership. |
| 2019 | Published the children's book Travels with Sushi in the Land of the Mind in English. |
| 2019 |
Lilith
The adult animated series Hazbin Hotel premiered, depicting Lilith as the wife of Lucifer and queen of Hell, with Charlie as their daughter, subverting traditional narratives about Lucifer and Lilith.
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| 2019 | Richard Rohr published 'The Universal Christ', a book suggesting panentheism as the original view of Christianity based on mystical experiences. |
| 2019 | Documentary 'The Rabbi Goes West' was created, following a Chabad rabbi who moves to Montana. |
| 2019 | CTeen U was launched through a partnership with Yeshiva University, offering a college-accredited program where teens learn about Jewish philosophy, ethics, and history. |
| 2018 | Published the book From Infinity to Man: The Fundamental Ideas of Kabbalah Within the Framework of Information Theory and Quantum Physics in Russian. |
| 2018 | 'Outback Rabbis', a 50-minute television segment by Australian TV network SBS, covered the regional and rural Australia (RARA) program of Chabad, directed by Danny Ben-Moshe. |
| 2018 | Marcin Wodziński conducted the first global estimate of worldwide Hasidism, estimating that Chabad comprises 16,000–17,000 households (approximately 90,000–95,000 individuals), representing 13% of the total Hasidic population and ranking as the second-largest Hasidic community. |
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This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Tzadik, Let There Be Light (Smith book), Eduard Shifrin, Sefer Raziel HaMalakh, Daniel C. Matt, Rachel Elior, Panentheism, Devekut, Dor Daim, Joseph Dan, Chabad, Ana BeKoach, Nephilim, Primary texts of Kabbalah, Lilith, Tzimtzum, Tree of life (Kabbalah), Ken Hanson (Judaist), Kabbalah Society, The Sword of Moses & Moshe Idel, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.