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Holiday Fellow 5785:
Avidan Halivni
Have you ever wondered what Purim has to do with Judith Butler? Or how a Hasidic Rebbe could read Tu B'Shvat as a Holiday which affirms the physical act of eating? Well look no further. As the Gashmius Holiday fellow, Avidan Halivni is spending the 5785 calender year learning Hasidic texts and create content to be published for select Jewish holidays. Below you will find an ongoing archive of his work which ranges from essays to fictional stories to Hasidic translations and is illustrated by Gashmius Art and Creative Director, Eva Sturm-Gross. Stay tuned for more Holiday Fellow content as the year progresses!
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A selection of sources – classical and contemporary, from a wide variety of Hasidic and other Jewish traditions –to enrich your traditional haggadah and stimulate deeper reflections around the values of Passover in the modern world.
Gwyneth N.A. Hernandez, Gashmius Staff
Sources from:
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Rav Tzvi Elimelech Shapira of Dinov
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Mishnah Rosh Hashanah
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Taya Amit
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Gloria Anzaldúa
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Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners & Beth Richie
The Chanukkah Light Unseen: Dedicating Ourselves to the Unwritten, Miraculous Future is an essay by Risa Dunbar which was originally published in the All That’s Left 2023 Chanukkah Reader.
Source: Rav Tzadok HaKohen Rabinowitz of Lublin
The Offering Beyond Space and Time:
An essay by Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman that unpacks a previously untranslated teaching by the Sfat Emet, Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh Leib Alter (1847-1905).
Sources from:
- Levi Yitshak of Berditchev
- Rabbi Kohenet Jill Hammer
- Emmanuel Levinas
