Historical-Phenomenological

R. Levi Yizhak of Zelichow and His Quest for Leadership in the Early Hasidic Movement (2021)

Buber, Scholem, and the Me’or Eynayim: Another Perspective on a Great Controversy

Da’at: Universalizing a Hasidic Value (2020)

Reading in Harmony: An Introduction (2019)

Abraham Joshua Heschel on Prayer and his Hasidic Sources (Hebrew, 2018)

Afterward to David Biale’s Hasidism: A New History (2018)

Foreword to Simcha Paull Raphael’s  Jewish Views of the Afterlife, 3rd Edition (2019)

The Great Call of the Hour – Hillel Zeitlin’s Yiddish Writings on Yavneh, Green, Arthur and Ariel Evan Mayse (2016)

Levi Yizhak of Berditchev on Miracles (2015)

God’s Need for Man: A Unitive Approach to the Writings of A. J. Heschel (2015)

Foreword to Jonathan Slater’s A Partner in Holiness (2014)

Foreword to Ariel Evan Mayse’s (ed.) From the Depth of the Well: An Anthology of Jewish Mysticism (2014)

The Hasidic Homily: Mystical Performance and Hermeneutical Process (2013)

Wiesel in the Context of Neo-Hasidism (2013)

Hasidism and Its Response to Change (2013)

Around the Maggid’s Table: Tsaddik, Leadership and Popularization in the Circle of Dov Baer of Miedzyrzec (English, 2013)

Around the Maggid’s Table: Tsaddik, Leadership and Popularization in the Circle of Dov Baer of Miedzyrzec (Hebrew, 2013)

The Hasidic Homily: Mystical Performance and Hermeneutical Process (2013)

Hasidism: A Brief Introduction (2012)

Renewal and Havurah: American Movements, European Roots (2011)

On Rabbi Nahman’s Tale of the King and the Sage (Hebrew, 2010)

How Hasidism Went Astray (2010)

Hillel Zeitlin and Neo-Hasidic Readings of the Zohar (2010)

Abraham Joshua Heschel: Recasting Hasidism for Moderns (2009)

Intradivine Romance, Song of Songs in the Zohar (2006)

Afterword to John Hammond’s A Benedictine Legacy of Peace: The Life of Abbot Leo A. Rudloff (2005)

Some Aspects of Qabbalat Shabbat (2004)

Introduction to the Zohar in Daniel Matt’s (ed.) The Pritzker Edition of the Zohar vol. 1 (2003)

Shekhinah, the Virgin Mary, and the Song of Songs: Reflections on a Kabbalistic Symbol in its Christian Context (2002)

Rabbi Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl: Personal Practices of a Hasidic Master (2001)

Typologies of Leadership in Early Hasidism (Hebrew, 2001)

Reply to Alon Goshen-Gottstein’s Review of Keter: The Crown of God in Early Jewish Mysticism. Kabbalah, 2000

Judaism, Religious Diversity, and the American Academy (2000)

Judaism and “The Good” (1998)

Three Warsaw Mystics (1996)

Early Hasidism: Some Old/New Questions (1996)

The Zaddiq as Axis Mundi In Later Judaism (1994)

Perush Shir ha-Shirim le-Rabbi Yishaq Ibn Salula: Critical Edition with Introduction and Notes (1987)

The Song of Songs in Early Jewish Mysticism (1987)

Typologies of Leadership and the Hasidic Zaddiq (1987)

Introduction to Jewish Spirituality: From the Bible to the Middle Ages (1986)

Teachings of the Hasidic Masters (1984)

The Zohar: Jewish Mysticism in Medieval Spain (1984)

On Translating Hasidic Homilies (1983)

Religion and Mysticism: The Case of Judaism (1983)

On Piekarz’s Review of my book ‘Tormented Master’ (1982)

Rabbi Nahman Bratslaver’s Journey to the Land of Israel (1982)

Bride, Spouse Daughter: Images of the Feminine in Jewish Religious Literature (1982)

Discovery and Retreat: Hasidism and the Mystical Consciousness (1981)

Sabbath as Temple: Some Thoughts on Space and Time in Judaism (1980)

The Children in Egypt and the Theophany at the Sea (1975)

Rabbi Nahman Bratslaver’s Conflict Regarding Leadership (1975)

Contributions to The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

“Piety;” [http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Piety]

“Dov Baer of Mezritsh;” [http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Dov_Ber_of_Mezritsh]

“Elimelekh of Lizhensk;” [http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Elimelekh_of_Lizhensk]

“Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev;” [http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Levi_Yitzhak_of_Berdichev]

“Ger Hasidic Dynasty;” [http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Ger_Hasidic_Dynasty]

“Radomsk Hasidic Dynasty;” [http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Radomsk_Hasidic_Dynasty]

“Nahman of Bratslav;” [http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Nahman_of_Bratslav]

“Satmar Hasidism;” [http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Satmar_Hasidic_Dynasty]

“Shne’ur Zalman of Lyady.” [http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Shneur_Zalman_of_Liady]

Other Encyclopedia Contributions

“Eco-Kabbalah,” in The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (2005)

“Hasidism,” in the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (2005)

“Shekhinah,” in Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions (2007)

“Spirituality” in Lexicon of Contemporary Jewish Culture (Hebrew, 1993)

“Hasidism” in Lexicon of Contemporary Jewish Culture (Hebrew, 1993)

“Reconstructionist Liturgy” in Encyclopedia Judaica Year Book 1990-1991 (1991)

“Hasidism” in Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought, Eds. Cohen and Mendes-Flohr (1987)

“Spirituality” in Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought, Eds. Cohen and Mendes-Flohr (1987)