Ariel Evan Mayse joined the faculty of Stanford University in 2017 as an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies, after previously serving as the Director of Jewish Studies and Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts, and a research fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Michigan. He holds a Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from Harvard University and rabbinic ordination from Beit Midrash Har'el in Israel. Ariel also serves as the rabbi-in-residence of Atiq: Jewish Maker Institute (https://www.atiqmakers.org). His current research examines the role of language in Hasidism, manuscript theory and the formation of early Hasidic literature, the renaissance of Jewish mysticism in the nineteenth and twentieth century and the relationship between spirituality and law in Jewish legal writings.
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University of Michigan
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Yokhed ve-tsiber: Individual Expression and Communal Responsibility in a Yiddish Droshe by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Ariel Evan Mayse
Scholarship on Soloveitchik’s teachings has tended to focus exclusively on his Hebrew or English works rather than his Yiddish writings, but the present essay traces Soloveitchik’s style and exploring the nuances of intellectual legacy through the lens of an important Yiddish homily, a little-studied but critical essay called “Yokhed ve-tsiber” (“The Individual and the Collective”), an undated work was first delivered as a droshe (sermon) on his father’s yortsayt.
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Kratsn in der linker peye: yidish, yidishkayt, un dos pintele yid: A special issue of In geveb on Religious Thought in Yiddish
Ariel Evan Mayse, Naomi Seidman, Marc Caplan and Daniel Reiser
An introduction from the editors of the special issue of In geveb on Religious Thought in Yiddish.
Jan 20, 2019
Texts & Translation
אַ ביסל קלאָרקייט און פּשטות אין דער שפּראַכן־פֿראַגע
A Bit of Clarity and Simplicity in Regard to the Language Question
Hillel Zeitlin
Translation by Joshua Meyers and Ariel Evan Mayse
Hillel Zeitlin’s 1924 article on the language question presenting a novel perspective: the cultivation of both Hebrew and Yiddish is necessary to ensure the continued flourishing of the Jewish people.
Jan 20, 2019
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אַ בריוו צו בני־יבֿנה
A Letter to the Members of Yavneh
Hillel Zeitlin
Translation by Arthur Green and Ariel Evan Mayse
Translations of two letters by Zeitlin about Yavneh, one in Yiddish from 1925 and one in Aramaic from 1928.
Mar 08, 2016
Texts & Translation
וואָס איז יבֿנה?
What is Yavneh?
Hillel Zeitlin
Translation by Arthur Green and Ariel Evan Mayse
A newly discovered, undated manuscript signed by Hillel Zeitlin, in which he describes succinctly and clearly the nature of Yavneh and its intended function.
Mar 08, 2016
Texts & Translation
געבאָטן פֿאַר יעדן עכטן אָנהענגער פֿון „יבֿנה“
Admonitions for Every True Member of Yavneh
Hillel Zeitlin
Translation by Arthur Green and Ariel Evan Mayse
An excerpt from a privately published pamphlet called Di teyve (די תּבֿה) that appeared in 1924, which outlined the goals and principles of the Yavneh group.
Mar 08, 2016
Texts & Translation
(וואָס וויל יבֿנה? (דיאַלאָג
What Does Yavneh Want? (A Dialogue)
Hillel Zeitlin
Translation by Arthur Green and Ariel Evan Mayse
An excerpt from a privately published pamphlet called Di teyve (די תּבֿה) that appeared in 1924, which outlined the goals and principles of the Yavneh group.
Mar 08, 2016
Texts & Translation
צו אַלע די, וואָס ווילן בויען „יבֿנה“
To All Those Who Want to Build Yavneh (Part 2)
Hillel Zeitlin
Translation by Arthur Green, Ariel Evan Mayse and Ri J. Turner
The following essay details the proposed concrete steps for the formation of Yavneh, a movement for the spiritual regeneration of Judaism and world Jewry, published in Der moment in 1923.
Mar 08, 2016
Texts & Translation
“צו אַלע די, וואָס ווילן בויען „יבֿנה
To All Those Who Want to Build Yavneh (Part 1)
Hillel Zeitlin
Translation by Arthur Green, Ariel Evan Mayse and Ri J. Turner
The following essay details the proposed concrete steps for the formation of Yavneh, a movement for the spiritual regeneration of Judaism and world Jewry, published in Der moment in 1923.
Mar 08, 2016
Texts & Translation
גרויסער רוף פֿון דער שעה
The Great Call of the Hour (Part 3)
Hillel Zeitlin
Translation by Arthur Green, Ariel Evan Mayse and Ri J. Turner
The following essay by Zeitlin is part three of his original call for the formation of an elite Jewish spiritual fraternity, published in Der moment in 1923.
Mar 08, 2016
Texts & Translation
גרויסער רוף פֿון דער שעה
The Great Call of the Hour (Part 2)
Hillel Zeitlin
Translation by Arthur Green and Ariel Evan Mayse
The following essay by Zeitlin is part two of his original call for the formation of an elite Jewish spiritual fraternity, published in Der moment in 1923.
Mar 08, 2016
Texts & Translation
גרויסער רוף פֿון דער שעה
The Great Call of the Hour (Part 1)
Hillel Zeitlin
Translation by Arthur Green and Ariel Evan Mayse
The following essay by Zeitlin is part one of his original call for the formation of an elite Jewish spiritual fraternity, published in Der moment in 1923.
Mar 08, 2016
Article
“The Great Call of the Hour”: Hillel Zeitlin’s Yiddish Writings on Yavneh
Arthur Green and Ariel Evan Mayse
An introduction to the writings by Hillel Zeitlin on the intentional, neo-Hasidic community he tried to create in Warsaw in the 1920s.
Mar 08, 2016
Texts & Translation
מיקווה און מיצווה
Mikvah and Mitzvah: Melancholia and the Spiritual Life
R. Aaron of Karlin
Translation by Ariel Evan Mayse and Daniel Reiser
A Hasidic homily from the eighteenth century by R. Aaron of Karlin. The message is simple and speaks to the heart of Hasidic thought: sadness may have some limited utility, but depression is always a destructive force that inhibits spiritual growth.
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