Eli Rubin’s “Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity” (Stanford University Press) presents a groundbreaking study of Chabad Hasidism. Through close readings of primary texts, historical analysis, and engagement with modern philosophy, Rubin traces the historical evolution of the movement’s theology. Todd Berman, who recently reviewed the book for TRADITION, held a conversation with Rubin at Jerusalem’s Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi.