Faith Shattered and Restored

The starkly innovative spiritual and educational approach of Rabbi Shimon Gershon Rosenberg (known as Rabbi Shagar) has shaped a generation of Israelis who yearn to encounter the Divine in a world progressively at odds with religious experience, nurturing religious faith within a cultural climate of corrosive skepticism. Possessing the rare ability to stare into the abyss of doubt with an unflinching gaze, Rabbi Shagar offers profound and often acutely personal insights that marry existentialist philosophy and Hasidism, Talmud and postmodernism.

Faith Shattered and Restored is the first authoritative attempt to introduce the English-speaking public to one of Israel's most creative and influential thinkers. These seminal essays set out a new path for preserving and cultivating Jewish spirituality in the twenty-first century and beyond.

With a preface by Aryeh Rubin and an afterword by Rabbi Shalom Carmy.

Rabbi Shagar was a significant thinker who produced an unusual synthesis of Judaism and postmodernism, developing a unique and fresh approach to spirituality. This collection is essential reading for those in search of a new and sensitive Jewish voice for our time.
– RABBI LORD JONATHAN SACKS

Rabbi Shagar allows a new generation to accept the complexities of the modern world without looking for a resolution. His thought makes space for questioning and for the liberating acceptance of the possibility of alternatives. He is not going back to the ideological certainties of the past, but looking to create new approaches.
– PROF. ALAN BRILL

The unique encounter of Jewish tradition with contemporary philosophical thought in the writing of Rabbi Shagar establishes him as one of the most creative and fascinating Jewish thinkers of our time. This translation will provide inspiration for everyone who seeks the rare and beautiful combination of commitment to tradition with daring, erudition, and imagination.
– PROF. MOSHE HALBERTAL