'Bati LeGani' of the last two Lubavitcher Rebbes - a literary edifice of the 20th century: Rabbi Joseph Isaac Shneersohn taught the first version of his Bati LeGani discourse in 1923, and issued it for study in 1939 and again in 1950, for Yud Shevat, the day he passed away. The discussions of it in a stream of discourses by his successor R. Menachem Mendel, the 7th Rebbe, fill two fascinating volumes.

Mystical Transactions and the Chabad Chasidic Dsicourse

Controlled Ecstacy: incrementalism and the absolute in the inner life

From the Zohar to Chassidic Teachings

From the Sacred to the Profane - the Ambiguities of Tanya Ch. 8.

Dr Israel Sandman discusses early 14th century Isaac Israeli’s interpretation of a Talmudic test of astronomy.

Dr Naftali Loewenthal presents a fascinating new book by Boruch Oberlander and Elkanan Shmotkin, “The Early Years, the formative years of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson”.

Discussing the image of Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai, sage of the Mishnah and author of the Zohar.

Dr. Naftali Loewenthal discusses 'Book of Philosophy, Path of Faith' an intriguing book on philosophy written by the Tzemach Tzedek.

Dr. Israel Sandman discusses categorization and synthesis in the Tzemach Tzedek's chassidic thought.

Dr. Naftali Loewenthal discusses Maimonides' approach to creation and how this was understood by later scholars. Presented at Oxford Chabad Yom Limmud 22 Nov 2015.

Rabbi Eli Brackman discusses the case of "Jacob the Jew", an early 17th century figure in Oxford, who fled to escape public baptism. The case is analysed in terms of relevant halachic literature on Apostasy. Presented at Oxford Chabad Yom Limmud 22 Nov 2015.

Dr. Israel Sandman explores the significance of Maimonides depicting the history of idolatry, of Abraham discovering Monotheism and other historiographical passages in this work. Presented at Oxford Chabad Yom Limmud 22 Nov 2015.

Lecture at Yom Limmud at the Oxford Chabad Centre Sept 2015 on the legal and mystical aspects of Kol Nidrei.