
11/05/2025
Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity
Lecture by Eli Rubin based on his recent book, Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity. a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of Chabad Hasidism through the Kabbalistic concept of ṣimṣum. The onset of modernity, Eli Rubin argues, was heralded by this startling idea: existence itself is predicated on a self-inflicted "rupture" in the infinite assertion of divinity.