Eliezer Shore

About the Author

Rabbi Eliezer Shore is a teacher of Chassidus and Jewish spirituality. He teaches at Hebrew University and other institutions around Israel. His newest book is "The Face of the Waters: Chasidic teachings & stories for the twenty-first century" (Targum Press). For more information, please visit eliezershore.com.

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Round and Round but Never There, by Eliezer Shore

November 15, 2018By Eliezer Shore

Hope not as destination, but as the line we draw along the way.

The Temple of Amount, by Eliezer Shore

January 31, 2018By Eliezer Shore

Searching for symbol in a world of number

Every reader of Parabola is on a quest: the “search for meaning” on our cover could equally read “quest for meaning.” For many, involvement with quest has been lifelong. As a teenager I daydreamed about searching for the Holy Grail. It wasn’t the sacred relic that fired my imagination, but the quest—the chance to devote body, heart, and mind to the pursuit of something of infinite value.

This Spring 2020 issue of Parabola teems with stories of women and men on similar paramount quests—for the Grail, and for more. There are Dag Hammarskjold, Vaclav Havel, and G.I. Gurdjieff, three wise men who guide us and author Roger Lipsey toward resolution of our global climate crisis. There is religion scholar Elaine Pagels, talking about her quest to understand the gnostic teachings of Jesus. Read more>

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