Scholar-Rabbi with a unique depth and breadth of Jewish philosophy and contemporary spirituality as well an immersion in the arts and multiples modalities of learning and contemplation with great experience in building conscious communities.
Merest Breath is a provocative and contemporary translation with two new commen taries on Qohelet... more Merest Breath is a provocative and contemporary translation with two new commen taries on Qohelet (Ecclesiastes). These eclectic commentaries on one of the strangest books of the Hebrew Bible opens up an ancient wisdom text that dares to address theological skepticism of the present. Understanding Qohelet as resisting biblical theological platitudes about sin, prayer, and forgiveness, these commentaries are a magisterial conversation between thinkers ancient and modern-from Heraclitus to Leonard Cohen-that dares to think differently. Martin Cohen's new translation and introductory commentary (Kol ha-Tor) is in conversation with Aubrey Glazer's philosophical interpretations (Ruah. ha-Orev)-ranging from Hebraic stoicism and skepticism to an exploration of the diverse interpretations.
Review essay of: GERSHOM SCHOLEM AND THE RESEARCH OF SABBATIANISM By Jonatan Meir and Shinichi Ya... more Review essay of: GERSHOM SCHOLEM AND THE RESEARCH OF SABBATIANISM By Jonatan Meir and Shinichi Yamamoto Translated by Samuel Glauber-Zimra. Jerusalem: Blima, 2021 Pp. 159. Paperback. $27. SOMEWHERE BETWEEN ISLAM AND JUDAISM: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS By Aaron W. Hughes Sheffield, UK/Bristol, CT: Equinox, 2021 Pp. 203. Paperback . $32 TOWARDS THE MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE OF MODERNITY: THE MAKING OF RAV KOOK, 1865-1904 By Yehudah Mirsky ASP, 2021 Pp. 392.Paperback $34.95 SUFFERING TIME: PHILOSOPHICAL, KABBALISTIC, AND HASIDIC REFLECTIONS ON TEMPORALITY By Elliot R. Wolfson Supplements to the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Volume 30 Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2021 Pp. 787. Hardcover, $192 UNVEILING THE VEIL OF UNVEILING: PHILOSOPHICAL APHORISMS & POEMS ON TIME, LANGUAGE, BEING, & TRUTH By Elliot R. Wolfson San Francisco: Panui Publications, 2022 Pp. 141. Paperback $22 UNDERTORAH: AN EARTH-BASED KABBALAH OF DREAMS By Jill Hammer New York, NY: Ayin-Ben Yehuda Press, 2022 Pp. 380. Paperback $24.95 KABBALAH AND SEX MAGIC: A MYTHICAL-RITUAL GENEALOGY By Marla Segol University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021 Pp. 220. Hardcover, $99.95 THE MERGING OF TWO OCEANS: NINE TALKS ON SUFISM & HASIDISM By Pir Netanel Miles-Yepez Boulderl, Colorado: Albion Publications, 2021 Pp. 241.Paperback $18 KABBALISTIC PANPSYCHISM: THE ENIGMA OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN JEWISH MYSTICAL THOUGHT By Hyman M. Schipper Lanham: John Hunt Publishing, 2021 Pp. 215. Paperback $20.95
Alan Lew's posthumous poetry cycle with contributions by Norman Fischer, Dorothy Richman and Aubr... more Alan Lew's posthumous poetry cycle with contributions by Norman Fischer, Dorothy Richman and Aubrey Glazer.
Merest Breath is a provocative and contemporary translation with two new commen taries on Qohelet... more Merest Breath is a provocative and contemporary translation with two new commen taries on Qohelet (Ecclesiastes). These eclectic commentaries on one of the strangest books of the Hebrew Bible opens up an ancient wisdom text that dares to address theological skepticism of the present. Understanding Qohelet as resisting biblical theological platitudes about sin, prayer, and forgiveness, these commentaries are a magisterial conversation between thinkers ancient and modern-from Heraclitus to Leonard Cohen-that dares to think differently. Martin Cohen's new translation and introductory commentary (Kol ha-Tor) is in conversation with Aubrey Glazer's philosophical interpretations (Ruah. ha-Orev)-ranging from Hebraic stoicism and skepticism to an exploration of the diverse interpretations.
Review essay of: GERSHOM SCHOLEM AND THE RESEARCH OF SABBATIANISM By Jonatan Meir and Shinichi Ya... more Review essay of: GERSHOM SCHOLEM AND THE RESEARCH OF SABBATIANISM By Jonatan Meir and Shinichi Yamamoto Translated by Samuel Glauber-Zimra. Jerusalem: Blima, 2021 Pp. 159. Paperback. $27. SOMEWHERE BETWEEN ISLAM AND JUDAISM: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS By Aaron W. Hughes Sheffield, UK/Bristol, CT: Equinox, 2021 Pp. 203. Paperback . $32 TOWARDS THE MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE OF MODERNITY: THE MAKING OF RAV KOOK, 1865-1904 By Yehudah Mirsky ASP, 2021 Pp. 392.Paperback $34.95 SUFFERING TIME: PHILOSOPHICAL, KABBALISTIC, AND HASIDIC REFLECTIONS ON TEMPORALITY By Elliot R. Wolfson Supplements to the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Volume 30 Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2021 Pp. 787. Hardcover, $192 UNVEILING THE VEIL OF UNVEILING: PHILOSOPHICAL APHORISMS & POEMS ON TIME, LANGUAGE, BEING, & TRUTH By Elliot R. Wolfson San Francisco: Panui Publications, 2022 Pp. 141. Paperback $22 UNDERTORAH: AN EARTH-BASED KABBALAH OF DREAMS By Jill Hammer New York, NY: Ayin-Ben Yehuda Press, 2022 Pp. 380. Paperback $24.95 KABBALAH AND SEX MAGIC: A MYTHICAL-RITUAL GENEALOGY By Marla Segol University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021 Pp. 220. Hardcover, $99.95 THE MERGING OF TWO OCEANS: NINE TALKS ON SUFISM & HASIDISM By Pir Netanel Miles-Yepez Boulderl, Colorado: Albion Publications, 2021 Pp. 241.Paperback $18 KABBALISTIC PANPSYCHISM: THE ENIGMA OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN JEWISH MYSTICAL THOUGHT By Hyman M. Schipper Lanham: John Hunt Publishing, 2021 Pp. 215. Paperback $20.95
Alan Lew's posthumous poetry cycle with contributions by Norman Fischer, Dorothy Richman and Aubr... more Alan Lew's posthumous poetry cycle with contributions by Norman Fischer, Dorothy Richman and Aubrey Glazer.
What is it about the songbook of Bob Dylan that continues to captivate our deeper yearnings for m... more What is it about the songbook of Bob Dylan that continues to captivate our deeper yearnings for meaning and hope in a world so dark and broken? While Dylan’s songbook has been analyzed in numerous studies, whether as classical literature, as scriptural theology, as mystical prophesy, or as the musings of a Zen master, the present study, God Knows Everything is Broken, aims to be a “generative” exploration of the depth and breadth of Dylan’s songbook in as of yet unexplored registers by examining the uniquely cynical but coherent gnostic theology within the arc of his lyrics. What continues to be underappreciated is how Dylan’s great American songbook—both in his original songwriting as well as covers— expresses a relentlessly downbeat world weariness as a way of navigating a world unworthy of complete redemption. By reflecting on this Nobel Laureate’s deft intertextuality that creates a new American scripture, God Knows Everything is Broken draws together the constellations of creative cataclysms in Dylan’s songbook as a uniquely dark expression of what he refers to in “Desolation Row” as Ophelia’s religion— that is, nothing but purest of American Religion. Dylan’s songbook is a playful but profound, catchy but nuanced trajectory into deeper darkening constellations of love lost, time unredeemed and faith broken. By reading Dylan’s American songbook as gnostic is to problematize the tendency to pigeon-hole one who is “busy being born” over five decades not as being “born-again” into Christianity, or “returning” to Judaism, but as a master of masks being designed, dawned and discarded in a series of creative cataclysms that continue to take hold of our imagination through iconoclastic lyricism. Dylan’s songbook is a testament to a constancy in creative rebirthing that mirrors the cosmos itself amidst its brokenness. God Knows Everything is Broken uncovers Dylan’s meandering direction home in his singularly ingenious gnostic songbook that opens a new window in to the death and rebirth of the American Dream.
Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Leonard Cohen’s Post-Secular Songbook of Mysticism(s) Jewish & beyond t... more Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Leonard Cohen’s Post-Secular Songbook of Mysticism(s) Jewish & beyond through a post-secular lens, analyzes the lyrical poetry of Leonard Cohen. Tangle of Matter & Ghost fuses sophisticated theory and popular culture with critical analysis that is lacking in most of the rock n’ roll biographies about Leonard Cohen. How does this mystical maestro’s songbook emerge to illuminate questions of meaning making in a post-secular context when correlated with thinkers like Charles Taylor, Edward S. Casey, Jurgen Habermas, Slavoj Žižek, Jeffrey Kripal and Harold Bloom along with others. Cohen’s mysticism is also analyzed in relationship to Kabbalah, Hasidism and Rinzai Buddhism. Tangle of Matter & Ghost presents a unique inter-disciplinary approach to Jewish philosophy and literary studies with wide appeal for diverse audiences and readership.
SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY – UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
PHILOSOPHIZING MONOTHEISM
A Workshop in Philosop... more SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY – UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN PHILOSOPHIZING MONOTHEISM A Workshop in Philosophy and Theology Wednesday, 10th May 2017 10h – 18h Venue: National University of Ireland Merrion Square Dublin SPEAKERS Itzhak Benyamini Ward Blanton Joseph Cohen Aubrey Glazer Maureen Junker-Kenny Elad Lapidot Mahdi Tourage Raphael Zagury-Orly
Review essay of:
GERSHOM SCHOLEM AND THE RESEARCH OF SABBATIANISM
By Jonatan Meir and Shinichi... more Review essay of:
GERSHOM SCHOLEM AND THE RESEARCH OF SABBATIANISM By Jonatan Meir and Shinichi Yamamoto Translated by Samuel Glauber-Zimra. Jerusalem: Blima, 2021 Pp. 159. Paperback. $27.
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN ISLAM AND JUDAISM: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS By Aaron W. Hughes Sheffield, UK/Bristol, CT: Equinox, 2021 Pp. 203. Paperback . $32
TOWARDS THE MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE OF MODERNITY: THE MAKING OF RAV KOOK, 1865-1904 By Yehudah Mirsky ASP, 2021 Pp. 392.Paperback $34.95
SUFFERING TIME: PHILOSOPHICAL, KABBALISTIC, AND HASIDIC REFLECTIONS ON TEMPORALITY By Elliot R. Wolfson Supplements to the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Volume 30 Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2021 Pp. 787. Hardcover, $192
UNVEILING THE VEIL OF UNVEILING: PHILOSOPHICAL APHORISMS & POEMS ON TIME, LANGUAGE, BEING, & TRUTH By Elliot R. Wolfson San Francisco: Panui Publications, 2022 Pp. 141. Paperback $22
UNDERTORAH: AN EARTH-BASED KABBALAH OF DREAMS By Jill Hammer New York, NY: Ayin-Ben Yehuda Press, 2022 Pp. 380. Paperback $24.95
KABBALAH AND SEX MAGIC: A MYTHICAL-RITUAL GENEALOGY By Marla Segol University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021 Pp. 220. Hardcover, $99.95
THE MERGING OF TWO OCEANS: NINE TALKS ON SUFISM & HASIDISM By Pir Netanel Miles-Yepez Boulderl, Colorado: Albion Publications, 2021 Pp. 241.Paperback $18
KABBALISTIC PANPSYCHISM: THE ENIGMA OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN JEWISH MYSTICAL THOUGHT By Hyman M. Schipper Lanham: John Hunt Publishing, 2021 Pp. 215. Paperback $20.95
God Knows, Everything Is Broken is a book full of insights and profound interpretations of Dylan’... more God Knows, Everything Is Broken is a book full of insights and profound interpretations of Dylan’s religious quest. Dylan steps into the public arena wearing a disguise. Whenever he’s telling the truth, he puts a mask on. He is honest, but has he decided to live outside the Jewish law, like a drifter who escaped from the oppression of calcifying rules? In this interview, Glazer and Zoppas discuss the roots of Dylan’s duplicity are to be traced in a spiritual movement called Gnosticism that is enjoying a renewed impetus in America. Gnosticism explains how Dylan can transcend dualism, and — for instance — easily move from the born-again values of the Vineyard Fellowship to anti-Zionist, ultra-religious Chabad Hasidism. His choices must always be radical, find out why.
Liberation from enslavement, literal or otherwise, is a challenge in every age, and one that requ... more Liberation from enslavement, literal or otherwise, is a challenge in every age, and one that requires us not to succumb to “do nothingism."
Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes, vol. 25, 2017
BOOK REVIEW: Chantal Ringuet and Gerard Rabinovitch, dir. Les révolutions de Leonard Cohen (Québe... more BOOK REVIEW: Chantal Ringuet and Gerard Rabinovitch, dir. Les révolutions de Leonard Cohen (Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2016), 292 pp., ISBN: 9782760544338. Aubrey Glazer, Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Leonard Cohen’s Post-Secular Songbook of Mysticism(s) Jewish & Beyond (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2017), 336 pp., ISBN: 9781618115492.
Review of poetry collections: Herb Levine’s “All the Worlds” and Yaakov Moshe’s (aka Jay Michaels... more Review of poetry collections: Herb Levine’s “All the Worlds” and Yaakov Moshe’s (aka Jay Michaelson) “Is”.
REVIEW: Judaisms: A Twenty-First-Century Introduction to Jews and Jewish Identities. By Aaron J. ... more REVIEW: Judaisms: A Twenty-First-Century Introduction to Jews and Jewish Identities. By Aaron J. Hahn Tapper. Oakland, CA: University of California, 2016. Pp. xii + 261. $35.
Religious Studies Review · VOLUME 43 · NUMBER 4 · DECEMBER , 2017
A review essay of selected volumes in Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers (Brill), Edited... more A review essay of selected volumes in Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers (Brill), Edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes including: ELLIOT R. WOLFSON: POETIC THINKING (2015); ELLIOT N. DORFF: IN SEARCH OF THE GOOD LIFE ( 2014); ELIEZER SCHWEID: THE RESPONSIBILITY OF JEWISH PHILOSOPHY (2013); MENACHEM KELLNER: JEWISH UNIVERSALISM ( 2015); DAVID NOVAK: NATURAL LAW AND REVEALED TORAH (2013); LENN E. GOODMAN: JUDAISM, HUMANITY, AND NATURE (2015).
www.tjctv.com Rabbis of different denominations debate and discuss the issues affecting the Jewi... more www.tjctv.com Rabbis of different denominations debate and discuss the issues affecting the Jewish community today. On this episode, rabbis tackle the question of gay inclusion in Judaism, the "Israelification" of American airport security, Brit Hume's controversial remarks about Tiger Woods, and more. With R' Steven Pruzansky (Orth.), R' Marci Bellows (Ref.), R' Aubrey Glazer (Cons.), and R' Steven Kane (Cons.), moderated by R' Dr. David Flatto.
Rabbi Aubrey Glazer talks about teaching Jewish Philosophy Classes at Purchase College and his ra... more Rabbi Aubrey Glazer talks about teaching Jewish Philosophy Classes at Purchase College and his rabbinical work at the Harrison JCC in Westchester County, NY.
Attaining Mystical States: Rabbi Aubrey Glazer, of Congregation Beth Shalom, San Francisco, talks... more Attaining Mystical States: Rabbi Aubrey Glazer, of Congregation Beth Shalom, San Francisco, talks about attaining a mystical state, in Jewish mystical thought. Mystical states can be cultivated through the chanting of wordless melodies in an embodied way to enter a trance state. Another way of attaining a mystical state is to move into silence and to go into retreat. Jewish meditation can help with the process of emptying oneself in order to become a receptacle to the fullness of the inspirational spirit. Meditation allows one to enter a deeper state of mystical oneness with the world and with the creator. Meditative moments bay be embedded within a prayer and liturgy as it exists and may have distinct moments either before or after the prayer experience where we are allowed to enter a contemplative space of silence where the words of prayer emerge in a much more powerful way.
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PHILOSOPHIZING MONOTHEISM
A Workshop in Philosophy and Theology
Wednesday, 10th May 2017
10h – 18h
Venue:
National University of Ireland
Merrion Square
Dublin
SPEAKERS
Itzhak Benyamini
Ward Blanton
Joseph Cohen
Aubrey Glazer
Maureen Junker-Kenny
Elad Lapidot
Mahdi Tourage
Raphael Zagury-Orly
GERSHOM SCHOLEM AND THE RESEARCH OF SABBATIANISM
By Jonatan Meir and Shinichi Yamamoto
Translated by Samuel Glauber-Zimra.
Jerusalem: Blima, 2021
Pp. 159. Paperback. $27.
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN ISLAM AND JUDAISM: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS
By Aaron W. Hughes
Sheffield, UK/Bristol, CT: Equinox, 2021
Pp. 203. Paperback . $32
TOWARDS THE MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE OF MODERNITY: THE MAKING OF RAV KOOK, 1865-1904
By Yehudah Mirsky
ASP, 2021
Pp. 392.Paperback $34.95
SUFFERING TIME: PHILOSOPHICAL, KABBALISTIC, AND HASIDIC REFLECTIONS ON TEMPORALITY
By Elliot R. Wolfson
Supplements to the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Volume 30
Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2021
Pp. 787. Hardcover, $192
UNVEILING THE VEIL OF UNVEILING: PHILOSOPHICAL APHORISMS & POEMS ON TIME, LANGUAGE, BEING, & TRUTH
By Elliot R. Wolfson
San Francisco: Panui Publications, 2022
Pp. 141. Paperback $22
UNDERTORAH: AN EARTH-BASED KABBALAH OF DREAMS
By Jill Hammer
New York, NY: Ayin-Ben Yehuda Press, 2022
Pp. 380. Paperback $24.95
KABBALAH AND SEX MAGIC: A MYTHICAL-RITUAL GENEALOGY
By Marla Segol
University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021
Pp. 220. Hardcover, $99.95
THE MERGING OF TWO OCEANS: NINE TALKS ON SUFISM & HASIDISM
By Pir Netanel Miles-Yepez
Boulderl, Colorado: Albion Publications, 2021
Pp. 241.Paperback $18
KABBALISTIC PANPSYCHISM: THE ENIGMA OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN JEWISH MYSTICAL THOUGHT
By Hyman M. Schipper
Lanham: John Hunt Publishing, 2021
Pp. 215. Paperback $20.95
In this interview, Glazer and Zoppas discuss the roots of Dylan’s duplicity are to be traced in a spiritual movement called Gnosticism that is enjoying a renewed impetus in America. Gnosticism explains how Dylan can transcend dualism, and — for instance — easily move from the born-again values of the Vineyard Fellowship to anti-Zionist, ultra-religious Chabad Hasidism. His choices must always be radical, find out why.