Author: Rabbi Bezalel Naor

Book Review: The Souls of the World of Chaos by Netanel Elyashiv

From the Politics of Tohu to the Politics of Tikkun by Rav Netanel Elyashiv מפוליטיקה של תוהו לפוליטיקה של תיקון רב נתנאל אלישיב ** במהלך השבת הספקתי להתקדם סוף סוף בספרו החדש של הרב בצלאל נאור – ‘הנשמות של עולם התוהו‘. מפעל חייו של הרב נאור הוא עריכת תרגומים מעולים של כתבי הרב קוק לאנגלית, […]

Of Swords and Books: ‘The Land That I Will Show You’ – Part Two

Shnayor Burton. Ha-Arets Asher Ar’eka: Mitsvat Yishuv Erets Yisrael (The Land That I Will Show You: The Commandment of Settling the Land of Israel). 5783/2023. (14), 208 pages. A good portion of Rabbi Burton’s book pivots on the intriguing dialogue between Reish Lakish and Rabbi Yohanan in Tractate Yoma of the Babylonian Talmud. Reish Lakish had great disdain for the Jews […]

Of Swords and Books: ‘The Land That I Will Show You’ – Part One

Shnayor Burton. Ha-Arets Asher Ar’eka: Mitsvat Yishuv Erets Yisrael (The Land That I Will Show You: The Commandment of Settling the Land of Israel). 5783/2023. (14), 208 pages. In the aftermath of World War Two, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum of Satu Mare experienced an epiphany: The incomparable tragedy of the Holocaust was divine retribution for the People of Israel having […]

Women of Iran

“All the books of the Prophets and all the Writings will in the future be nullified except for the Scroll of Esther; it will continue to exist as the Five Books of the Torah and as the Oral Laws that are never nullified” (Maimonides, Hil. Megillah 2:18) Maimonides, based on a dictum of the Jerusalem […]

Audio: Seforimchatter Discussing Post-Sabbatean Sabbateanism

In Honor of the Yahrzeit of Rav Kook, 3 Elul 5782 לכבוד יומא דהילולא ג’ אלול תשפ”ב LiNevukhei haDor Tamtsit haPerakim Rabbi Bezalel Naor was interviewed on Sunday, February 13, 2022, by Nachi Weinstein of SeforimChatter concerning the two books that he authored on Sabbatianism: Post-Sabbatian Sabbatianism; and Caught in the Crack: Encounters with the […]

Video: Zion & Jerusalem: The Sacred & the Secular

Zion & Jerusalem: The Sacred & the Secular YOM YERUSHALAYIM, 28 IYYAR 5781/MAY 9, 2021 Order the book: https://kodeshpress.com/product/navigating-worlds/ Rav Kook on Culture Wars Discussion based on the research that went into the chapter by that name in Bezalel Naor’s latest book, “Navigating Worlds” (Kodesh, 2021). In the aftermath of World War One, Rav Kook created […]