About NeoHasid
In 1995, the year after Reb Shlomo Carlebach z"l died, a group of friends on the Upper West Side of Manhattan came together to form the very first Chasidic egalitarian minyan , led by David Seidenberg and Shaul Magid.
On Shabbat B'reishit (the shabbat right after Simchat Torah), we davened (prayed) together for the first time, meeting once a month for several years. A wonderful community of committed people from many walks of Jewish life, including ex-Yeshiva-niks and currently Orthodox yidn, Conservative and Reform rabbis and rabbinical students, etc., etc., began to gather to dance and sing, share Torah and meals.
One decade after that first minyan, NeoHasid.org was created by Rabbi David Seidenberg to help folks integrate Chasidic song, learning, and nusach into their davenning and communities.
Rabbi David Seidenberg, the creator of NeoHasid, teaches text and music, Jewish thought and spirituality, in their own right and in relation to ecology and the environment. Areas include Kabbalah and Chasidut, Talmud, davening, evolution and cosmology, sustainability, Maimonides, Buber, and more. David has smikhah (ordination) from the Jewish Theological Seminary and from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, and he wrote a doctorate on Kabbalah and ecotheology at JTS. Bring Rabbi David Seidenberg to teach in your community!
Online publications, news about classes, etc.
Some pages to help you understand (a little) what Kabbalah is about.
Definitions of Hebrew and Aramaic words, and other technical or poetic terms on NeoHasid, with variant spellings, personal asides, etc. Almost 100 terms!
Egalitarian can have a lot of meanings - and we mean all of them.
Reb Duvid's writings and academic presentations
NeoHasid.org will connect people from all walks of life, practicing all forms of Judaism and spirituality, with the
ruach (spirit) of the Chasidic tradition...
You can read more about Neohasid's mission here: on egalitarianism, community, inclusiveness, and enriching the nascent Neo-Chasidus that is spreading throughout the Jewish world.
NeoHasid.org provides resources to help people learn and use Chasidic traditions to deepen their davening, regardless of their affiliation, gender, observance, religious identity...
