Rabbi Moshe Taragin's Sfarim
New Arrival!
Reclaiming Redemption - Volume II
New Arrival!
History has a beginning and an end. Advancing history to its conclusion is called redemption. Redemption isn’t just a prophecy but a core value of jewish belief.
To understand the culmination, we must take the long view of history. By exploring prophecy, chazal, and previous redemptions, we can begin to construct a vocabulary of geulah. What are the challenges of redemption? What role does land play in shaping religious identity? How can we reclaim a universal voice without weakening our devotion to torah and mitzvot? And how have the sweeping revolutions of recent centuries reshaped the redemptive journey? This book reaches back across generations to rediscover the melody of our people—their struggle, their faith, and their calling to represent hashem in this world. It also confronts the ways in which october 7th tested our faith, altered jewish identity, and redefined jewish peoplehood.
Rabbi Moshe Taragin has been a Ram at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Gush Etzion for the past 26 years. He has Semicha from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, a BA in Computer Science from Yeshiva College, and an MA in English Literature from City University. Rabbi Taragin previously taught Talmud at Columbia University, lectured in Talmud and Bible at the IBC and JSS divisions of Yeshiva University, and served as Assistant Rabbi at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue.
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In addition, Rabbi Taragin currently teaches at the Stella K. Abraham Beit Midrash for Women of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion. He is the author of an Internet shiur entitled “Talmudic Methodology” with over 5,000 subscribers a weekly shiur on Pirkei Avot with over 1400 subscribers and has delivered hundreds of audio shiurim featured on the Yeshivat Har Etzion “Audio Beit Midrash” ( KMTT) as well as on YU Torah online.
Rabbi Taragin has authored a Yom Ha’atzmaut Machzor for Koren publishing house. He is the author of Dark Clouds Above, Faith Below (Kodesh Press), which provides religious responses to Oct. 7.
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Rabbi Taragin and his wife have 8 children and reside in Gush Etzion.
