To Be Chasidic: A Contemporary Guide

Written for both the traditional and the non-observant Jew, this book serves as an excellent introduction to the theology of chasidism.

Written for both the traditional and the non-observant Jew, this book serves as an excellent introduction to the theology of chasidism.

Chaim Yaacov Dalfin received his rabbinical ordination from the Lubavitcher yeshivah in Brooklyn, New York. He received his bachelor of religious studies degree from the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, New Jersey. Rabbi Dalfin is a professor of Jewish Mysticism and Chasidism at the West Coast Talmudic Seminary. He is the author of Your Better Self (1994), a book on the chasidic approach to self-improvement, and Demystifying the Mystical (1995), a primer to ease the beginner into the esoteric world of mysticism and Chasidism. He is the recording artist of the "Chasidic Melodies Series—Learn, Understand, and Sing." Rabbi Dalfin is a chasid of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe.