Hasidic Thought and Hasidism

Books that open the world of Hasidism, its teachings, its stories and its people, for readers new to Hasidic thought and for those who want to go deeper.

Winning Every Moment presents the Tanya of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi as a practical method of self-mastery. Simcha Raz's Tales of the Righteous, translated by Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins, retells tales of the great masters of piety. The three-volume Slager Edition by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach includes The Wolf Shall Lie with the Lamb on the Messiah in Hasidic thought.

For a lively look at the community today, Tuvia Tenenbom's Careful, Beauties Ahead! describes his year living among the ultra-Orthodox of Mea Shearim.