Bezalel Naor, Navigating Worlds: Collected Essays (Kodesh Press) Shlomo Zuckier This summer I have the pleasure of reading through the recently released Navigating Worlds: Collected Essays by Rabbi Bezalel Naor, containing essays authored over the past 15 years. In his characteristic witty and creative writing style, R. Naor weaves together incisive readings of traditional texts with a broad knowledge […]
A GUIDE TO THE PERPLEXED by Elisha Paul Reviewing “Navigating Worlds” by Bezalel Naor. Kodesh Press. 2021. English. 680 pages. Not since The Aryeh Kaplan Reader was published in 1986 has there been as powerful a collection of essays in English–on such a broad array of topics, from one author–that explains complex Jewish concepts so […]
Title: Navigating Worlds, Collected Essays (2006-2020) Author: Bezalel Naor Publisher: Kodesh Press Reviewed by Steven Rohde Gotlib As part of my rabbinic internship with Congregation Beth Abraham-Jacob, I gave a series of classes on approaches to Aggadah (Talmudic stories) within Judaism, focusing largely on the interpretations of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov and Rav Avraham Yitzchak […]