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Outside of yeshiva circles, the name Moshe Shapira is hardly recognized by American Jews, even those with a particular interest in Jewish thought. Yet Rabbi Shapira, who died in 2017, had an outsize influence on haredi theology in Israel and to a lesser extent in the diaspora, with his distinctive and intellectually sophisticated blend of non-hasidic mysticism, musar (moral introspection), and reverence for unadulterated Talmud study. Mark Gottlieb reviews a posthumously published work by Mattisyahu Rosenblum that presents many of Shapira’s ideas to the English-language reader:
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