11 June 2025

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Alon Shalev, Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner's Theology of Meaning: "The World Was Created for Me"
We are pleased to announce the publication of the second volume of the Studies in Musar series: Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner's Theology of Meaning: "The World Was Created for Me" by Alon Shalev. The monograph explores the profound, enigmatic, and novel thought of Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner, combining innovative analysis with rigorous textual and historical research. Through a reconstruction of his intellectual biography and the conceptual framework underlying his ideas, this volume generates a hermeneutical key to decipher his writings, revealing their focal points and systematic coherence, and positioning him as a post-existentialist theologian bridging Jewish tradition, modern philosophy, and existential inquiry. The methodology presented offers a valuable model for analyzing complex intellectual systems, making it essential reading for scholars of philosophy, theology, and intellectual history.
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