What does the teacher-students entail in the world of Hasidism and do we need it anymore? Join Alexandra and Zevi in conversation, exploring questions of charismatic religious leadership, teachers and students, masters, disciples and the potential for redemption.

Alexandra Mandelbaum is a fellow in the Maskilot program at the David Hartman Center for Intellectual Leadership. She is writing her doctoral thesis in the Department of Jewish Thought at Ben Gurion University and her research focuses on Breslov Hasidism and the ideological fluctuations within Jewish society.

Over the years, she has been involved in leading and coordinating projects in the field of Jewish and Israeli culture. As part of the “Cultural Brigade” she wrote, produced, and created two plays that dealt with Russian-Israeli identity.

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00:00 Excerpt

01:10 Chasidism in the Academy

04:26 Story

09:37 Israel

13:44 What is a Rebbe?

18:00 Dangers of Rebbes

19:30 To be a Chasid

24:41 Negotiating Relationships

27:20 The Besht

35:37 Is it still Hasidism?

44:45 Self Aware

51:34 Teachers and Students

56:24 Apology

58:56 A Question of Succession

1:00:53 of Messianism

1:17:36 Messianic teacher and disciples

1:20:42 Messianic People

1:27:12 Us

1:30:58 Teaching as a Woman

2:00:06 Succession

2:13:06 Death of the Teacher

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