Rabbi Zachary Truboff is the Director of Rabbinic Education for the International Beit Din and the author of Torah Goes Forth From Zion: Essays on the Thought of Rav Kook and Rav Shagar. In the past, he was the director of the English speaking program at Bina L'Itim, a project of Yeshivat Siach Yitzchak. Before making aliyah, he served for nearly a decade as the rabbi of Cedar Sinai Synagogue in Cleveland, Ohio.
Can receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai really be a moment of both fear and love, coercion and freedom?
On the centrality of Baitiut in the thought of Rav Shagar, and our ability to feel at home with Judaism.
Reflections on Rav Kook’s writings on love as it manifests toward God, our fellow Jews, and humanity as a whole.
This essay explores Rav Shagar's experience during the Yom Kippur War and how it contributed to his understanding of emunah. To dwell in the sukkah is to experience not God's light but rather God's shade, and it is this model of faith we must