Schisms in Comparative Perspective
The Doubled-Down Body
On Hasidism, Ultra-Orthodoxy, and the traditions that responded to modernity not by stripping the embodied but by intensifying it — and what this reveals about what the stripping costs
Schisms in Comparative Perspective
Schisms in Comparative Perspective
The Rational Temple
On the Haskalah, Reform Judaism, and what happens when the Emissary’s program is run on a tradition organized entirely around embodied practice as its primary mode of transmission
Schisms in Comparative Perspective
The Schism That Kept Both Walls
On the Great Schism of 1054, what a jurisdictional split looks like when neither side strips the icon, and why the Orthodox tradition looks so different from its Western counterpart a millennium later