What if the deepest ideas of Hasidic spirituality could reshape the way we think about innovation, entrepreneurship, and modern life?
In Shtiebel and Startup, Israel Prize Laureate Professor Mordechai Rotenberg opens a rare conversation between two worlds that rarely meet. On one side, the intimate spiritual language of the shtiebel. On the other, the fast, restless world of startups and high tech.
In a dynamic dialogue with Dr. Baruch Kahana, Rotenberg distills more than fifty years of thinking into a clear and provocative framework. Drawing on Hasidic, Kabbalistic, and Midrashic sources, he presents a psychological approach that is alive, flexible, and deeply relevant to the challenges of our time.
At the center of the book stands a bold claim. When religion becomes rigid, it stops giving life and starts blocking it. Rotenberg offers an alternative. A non fundamentalist spirituality that creates space instead of control, that invites dialogue instead of imposing truth, and that can reconnect technology, creativity, and human meaning.
This is not a theoretical discussion. It is a way of thinking that can reshape how we understand identity, innovation, and the role of tradition in a rapidly changing world.
Inside the book you will discover:
• A new way to read Jewish thought as a living psychological system
• The concept of Dialogic Tzimtzum and its practical implications
• A fresh perspective on creativity, identity, and personal development
• A powerful connection between spirituality and the world of high tech
Mordechai Rotenberg, founder of Jewish Psychology and recipient of the Israel Prize, brings together intellectual depth, personal experience, and original thinking in a work that challenges and expands the reader at every stage.
For readers who feel that something essential is missing in the conversation between tradition and innovation, this book offers a new direction.
Open the conversation.
