updated June 2023 1 Jonathan Garb Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah, Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 972-2-5880020 (work): e-mail: jgarb@huji.ac.il Website: http://huji.academia.edu/JonathanGarb Education 2002: Ben Gurion University. Department of Jewish Thought. PostDoctorate fellowship. 1998-2000: Hebrew University. Jewish Thought. PHD (Summa cum laude). Advisor: Professor Moshe Idel. 1994-1997: Hebrew University. Jewish Thought. M. A. 1990-1994: Hebrew University. Jewish Thought. B. A. Academic Positions 2023–2026. Co-Editor. Tarbiz: A Quarterly for Jewish Studies. 2023. Azrieli Fellowship Committee. 2022. Fellow, Maimonides Center for Advanced Studies. University of Hamburg. 2021- . Editorial board, The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy. 2018, 2022. Member of committee for the Ben Zvi prize for research on the Jewish Communities in the East. 2020-2022 Member of Hebrew University Central Promotions Committee. 2020- Editorial Board: The Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion. Brill Publishers. 2019. Fellow, Maimonides Center for Advanced Studies. University of Hamburg. 2019. Master-class, ‘Pantheism in Rabbinic Thought’ (With Prof. Itzhak Melamed), Jewish Studies Program and Department of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University. 2019- Editorial Board: Studies in Musar, Studies in Jewish History and Culture, Brill Publishers. 2018 Elected Member of Hebrew University Senate. 2017–2019. Member, International Advisory Committee, updated June 2023 2 Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania. 2017-2018. Chair. Department of Jewish Thought. Hebrew University. 2015 Full Professor, Hebrew University. 2014. Massive Open Online Course on Modern European Mysticism and Psychological Thought, Coursera. 2013, 2014 Lectures, Center for Core Curriculum, Columbia University. 2013-2014 Head of “Amirim” Honors Program, Hebrew University. 2010-2013 Plenary Committee, Authority for Research Students. 2012-2022 Editorial Board: Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts. 2012 Fellow, Center for Law and Jewish Civilization, NYU. 2011 Associate Professor. Hebrew University. 2009-2011 Member of Steering Committee and Seminar Co-Leader, Doctoral Honors Program, Hebrew University. 2008-9 Initiator and coordinator (with Prof. Philip Wexler), Research Group, Institute of Advanced Studies. Topic: The Sociology of Contemporary Jewish Mysticism in Comparative Perspective. 2008 Director. Integrative Program for Jewish Studies (within the Institute of Jewish Studies). 2007 Visiting Lecturer, L'école des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. 2007 Tenured Senior Lecturer. Humanities. The Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University 2003 Lecturer. Humanities. The Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University 1997-2008 Shalom Hartman Institute, Center for Advanced Studies. Grants, Awards, and Honors (see also below: Books). 2020-2023 Grant from the Israel Science Foundation: “Sod Yesharim by G.H. Leiner in Inter-generational Context”. 2014 Gershom Scholem Prize for Research in Kabbalah. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. 2014- Israel Science Foundation Grant for book publication, 25, 000$. updated June 2023 2013- 3 Gershom Scholem Endowment Fund for Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah Studies. 2012 - Co-Holder of Gershom Scholem Chair in Kabbalah. 2010-2014: Knapp Foundation Donation. “Eighteenth Century Italian Kabbalah”. 2010-2014: Knapp Foundation Donation. “Book Series on Contemporary Jewish Mysticism in Comparative Perspective”. 2010: President’s Prize for Outstanding Researcher (Pollack Family Foundation). Hebrew University. 2010-2112: Grant from the Israel Science Foundation. “Heart and Soul: Psychological Theories in Modern Kabbalah”. 2008: Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies Prize. The Academic Society for the Research of Religions and Ideologies. 2008: Levi Eshkol Institute Faculty Member Grant. “The Spiritual-Mystical Renaissance in the Haredi World Today”. 2006, 2011: List of Outstanding Lecturers, Faculty of Humanities. 2004-2005: Grant from the Committee for Innovative Research headed by VicePresident for Research and Development. “Twentieth Century Kabbalah”. 2004-2005: Hebrew University Research Fund Grant [Based on positive evaluation of application to Israel Science Foundation]. “A Scientific Edition of the work "Zror Hachaim" by the Kabbalist R. Joseph Ibn Sayah, accompanied by an extensive introduction”. 2004: Lubin Prize (supporting book publication). Hebrew University. 2002-2003: Hebrew University Research Fund Career Development Award [Based on application to Israel Science Foundation]. “A Scientific Edition of the work "Zror Hachaim" by the Kabbalist R. Joseph Ibn Sayah, accompanied by an extensive introduction”. updated June 2023 4 List of Publications Books • 2023 (in press). Does God Doubt: The Thought of r. Gershon Henoch Leiner in its Contexts. Brill: Leiden. • 2020. A History of Kabbalah from the Early Modern Period to the Present Day. Cambridge University Press. (awarded Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines, Hebrew University, 2021). • 2016. Modern Kabbalah as an Autonomous Domain of Research. Cherub Press: Los Angeles (in Hebrew). • 2015. The Yearnings of the Soul: Psychological Thought in Modern Kabbalah. The University of Chicago Press. • 2014. Kabbalist in the Eye of the Storm: R. Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto. Tel Aviv University Press (in Hebrew). • 2011. Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah. The University of Chicago Press. • 2009. "The Chosen will Become Herds": Studies in Twentieth Century Kabbalah, Yale University Press: New Haven. • 2005. "The Chosen will Become Herds": Studies in Twentieth Century Kabbalah. Carmel Press: Jerusalem (in Hebrew). • 2004. Manifestations of Power in Jewish Mysticism from Rabbinic Literature to Safedian Kabbalah. Magnes Press: Jerusalem (in Hebrew). Editing − 2012. With Philip Wexler, After Spirituality: Studies in Mystical Traditions. Peter Lang Publishing: New York. − 2012. With Maren Niehoff and Ronit Meroz, And This is For Yehuda: Studies Presented to our Friend, Professor Yehuda Liebes on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Bialik Press and Mandel Institute: Jerusalem (in Hebrew). − 2011-2015 Series Editor (with Prof. Philip Wexler). After Spirituality: Studies in Mystical Traditions. Peter Lang Publishing. updated June 2023 5 Articles in English - 2022. ‘Doubt and Certainty in Late Modern Kabbalah’, Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion, pp. 79-106. - 2021. ‘The Conversion of the Jews: Identity as Ontology in Modern Kabbalah’, Y. Freidmann and C. Markschies (eds.), Religious Responses to Modernity. De Gruyter: Berlin, pp. 33-48. - 2020. ‘From Fear to Awe in Luzzatto’s Mesilat Yesharim’. European Journal of Jewish Studies 14, pp. 285-299. - 2020. ‘Surprised by God: R. Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk’s Approach to Divine Worship and Its Influence in Tiberias,’ A. L. Glazer and N. Polen (eds.), From Tiberias, With Love: A Collection of Tiberian Hasidism Volume 1: R. Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk. Fons Vitae: Louisville, pp. 71-83. − 2019. ‘Contemplation, Meditation and Metaphysics in Second-Generation Habad’, P. Wexler (ed.), Jewish Spirituality and Social Transformation: Hasidism and Society. Crossroad: New York, pp. 185-201. – 2017. ‘Doubt and Certainty in Early Modern Kabbalah, G. Veltri (ed.), Yearbook of the Maimonides Center for Advanced Studies. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin, pp. 239246. − 2015. ‘Shame as an Existential Emotion in Modern Kabbalah’, Jewish Social Studies 21, pp. 83-116. − 2015. ‘Soul Time in Modern Kabbalah’, in: B. Ogren (ed.), Before and After: On Time and Eternity in Jewish Esotericism and Mysticism. Brill: Leiden, pp. 151-161. − 2015. ‘Moshe Idel: An Intellectual Portrait’, in H. Tirosh-Samuelson and A. Hughes, Moshe Idel (Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers). Brill: Leiden, pp. 1-29. − 2013, ‘The Psychological Turn in Sixteenth Century Kabbalah’, in: G. Cecere, M. Loubet and S. Pagani (eds.), Mystique juives, chréttiennes et musulmanes dans L’Egypte médiévale (VIIe–XVIe siècle): Interculturalités et contextes historiques. IFAO: Cairo, pp. 109-124. updated June 2023 − 6 2013. ‘Shamanism and the Hidden History of Modern Kabbalah’, in: A. DeConick and G. Adamson (eds.), Histories of the Hidden God. Equinox: Sheffield, pp. 175-192. − 2012. ‘The Challenges of Teaching Mysticism’, Religious Studies Review 38. (Review Article), pp. 207–212. − 2012, ‘Contemporary Kabbalah and Classical Kabbalah: Breaks and Continuities’, in: P. Wexler and J. Garb (eds.), After Spirituality: Studies in Mystical Traditions Peter Lang Publishing: New York, pp. 19–46. − 2012, With P. Wexler. ‘After Spirituality: Introducing the Volume and the Series’, in: P. Wexler and J. Garb (eds.), After Spirituality: Studies in Mystical Traditions. Peter Lang Publishing: New York, pp. 1–15. − 2011. ‘The Circle of Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto in Its Eighteenth-Century Context’. Eighteenth-Century Studies 44, pp. 189-202. − 2011. ‘Towards the Study of the Spiritual-Mystical Renaissance in the Contemporary Ashkenazi Haredi World in Israel’, in: B. Huss (ed.), Kabbalah and Contemporary Spiritual Revival, Ben-Gurion University Press: Beer Sheva, pp. 117–140. − 2010. ‘Mystical and Spiritual Discourse in the Contemporary Ashkenazi Haredi Worlds’. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 9, pp. 29-48. − 2010. ‘The Modernization of Kabbalah: A Case Study’. Modern Judaism: A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience 30, pp. 1-22. − 2008. ‘The Cult of the Saints in Lurianic Kabbalah’, Jewish Quarterly Review 98, pp. 203-229. − 2007. ‘Moshe Idel's Contribution to the Study of Religion’, Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 18, pp. 116-129. http://www.jsri.ro/new/?Current_issue (Reprinted in: S. Frunza and M. Frunza (eds.), Essays in Honor of Moshe Idel, Provo Press: Cluj-Napoca. 2008. pp. 20-34. − 2007. ‘Powers of Language in Kabbalah: Comparative Reflections’, in: S. De La Porta and D. Shulman (eds.), The Poetics of Grammar and the Metaphysics of Sound and Sign. pp. 233-269. Brill: Leiden. − 2006. ‘ "Alien" Culture in the Circle of Rabbi Kook’, in H. Kriesel (ed.), Study and Knowledge in Jewish Thought. pp. 253-264. Ben Gurion University Press: Beer Sheva. updated June 2023 − 7 2005. ‘Gender and Power in Kabbalah: A Theoretical Investigation’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 13, pp. 79-108. − 2004. ‘Rabbi Kook and his Sources: From Kabbalistic Historiosophy to National Mysticism’, in M. Sharon (Ed.) Studies in Modern Religions, Religious Movements and the Babi-Bahai Faiths.. pp. 77-96. Brill: Leiden. − 2004. ‘Mystics' Critiques of Mystical Experience’, Revue de l' histoire des religions, 221, pp. 293-325. − 2002. ‘Fear and Power in Renaissance Mediterranean Kabbalah’, in A. Scott and C. Kosso (Eds.), Fear and Its Representations: Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance,. pp. 137-151. Berpols: Turnhout, Belgium. − 2001. ‘Kinds of Power: Rabbinic Literature and Kabbalah’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 6, pp. 45-71. − 1998. ‘Paths of Power’, Journal of Religion 78, pp. 593-601 [Review Article] − 1998, With Tamar Rapoport (PI). ‘The Experience of Religious Fortification: The Coming of Age of Religious Zionist Young Women’, Gender and Education 10, pp. 5-20. Reprinted in: S. Baader, H. Kelle and E. Kleinau (eds.), Bildungsgeschichten: Geschlecht, Religion und Pädagogik in der Moderne. 2006. pp. 49-68. Böhlau: Koln. − 1995, With Tamar Rapoport (PI), and Penso A. ‘Religious Socialization and Female Subjectivity: Religious-Zionist Adolescent Girls in Israel’, Sociology of Education 68, pp. 48-61. − 1994, With Tamar Rapoport (PI), and Penso A. ‘Contribution to the Collective by Religious-Zionist Adolescent Girls’, British Journal of Sociology of Education 15, pp. 375-388. Articles in Hebrew − 2023 (accepted), ‘Mystical Techniques and Experiences in the Writings of R. Isaac E. Safrin of Komarno’ in: A. Bar-Levav, M. Halbertal, R. Margolin (eds.), Jubilee Volume. Idra Academic Press: Ramat Gan. − 2022. ‘The Somatic-Medical model in R. Itzhak Haver's Or ha-Torah’, Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought 27, pp. 189–221. − 2019. ‘A Study of Tal Orot by R. Yaakov Meir Spielmann’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 43, pp. 121-184. updated June 2023 − 8 2012. ‘The Political Model in Modern Kabbalah: A Study of Ramhal and his Intellectual Surroundings’, in: B. Brown, M. Lorberbaum, Y. Stern and A. Rosenak (eds.), Avi Be 'Ezri (Festschrift in honor of Aviezer Ravitzky). The Zalman Shazar Center and Israel Democracy Institute: Jerusalem, pp. 13-45. − 2011. ‘The Authentic Writings of R. Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 25, pp. 165–222. − 2011. 'A Renewed Study of the Self-Image of R. Moshe David Valle, as Reflected in his Biblical Exegesis'. Tarbiz: A Quarterly for Jewish Studies 79, pp. 265-306. − 2009. 'Kabbalah Outside the Walls: The Response of Rabbi Hadayah to the State of Israel', in: Z. Zohar (ed.), Rabbi Uziel and his Peers: Studies in the Religious Thought of Oriental Rabbis in 20th Century Israel, pp. 13-27. Tel Aviv University: Tel Aviv. − 2006. 'On the Kabbalists of Prague', Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 14, pp. 347-383. − 2005. 'The "Secrets of Faith" in the Zohar', in: M. Halbertal, D. Kurzweil and A. Sagi (eds.), On Faith: Studies on the Concept of Faith and its History in Jewish Thought. pp. 294-311, 641-647. Keter: Jerusalem. − 2005. 'The Concept of Power in the Circle of R. Kook', Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought 19, pp. 753-770. − 2004. 'Prophecy, Halakhah and Antinomianism in the "Shemonah Kevatsim" by Rabbi Kook', in Z. Gries, H. Kriesel and B. Huss (eds.), Shefa Tal: Studies in Jewish Thought and Culture presented to Bracha Sack, pp. 267-277. Ben Gurion University Press: Beer Shev'a. − 2004. 'Rabbi Kook: Nationalist Thinker or Mystical Poet', Da'at 54, pp. 69-96. − 2004. 'Models of Sacred Space in Jewish Mysticism and their Impact in the Twentieth Century', In: A. Ravitzky (ed.), The Land of Israel in Twentieth Century Jewish Thought. pp. 1-25. Yad Yitzhak Ben Tvi: Jerusalem. − 2004. 'Power, Ritual and Myth: A Comparative Methodological Proposal', In: M. Idel and I. Gruenwald (eds.), Myths in Judaism: History, Thought, Literature.. pp. 53-71. The Zalman Shazar Center: Jerusalem. − 2004. 'Messianism, Anti-Nomianism and Power in Religious Zionism: The case of the "Jewish Underground" ', in: A. Cohen (ed.), Religious Zionism: An updated June 2023 9 Era of Changes (Studies in Memory of Zvulun Hammer). 2004. pp. 323-363. Bialik Institute: Jerusalem. − 2004. 'The NRP Young Guard and the Ideological Roots of "Gush Emunim" ', in: A. Cohen (ed.), Religious Zionism: An Era of Changes (Studies in Memory of Zvulun Hammer), pp. 171-200. Bialik Institute: Jerusalem. − 2002. 'The Understandable Revival of Mysticism Today: Innovation and Conservatism in the Thought of Joseph Achituv', in: A. Sagi and Z. Zohar (Eds.), Jewish Culture in the Eye of the Storm: Festschrift in Honor of Joseph Achituv, pp. 172-199. Ha-kibbutz Ha-meuhad Press and Yaakov Herzog Center: Ein Tzurim. − 2001. ' "The Joy of Torah" in the Thought of David Hartman: A Critical Examination of the Phenomenology of Halakhic Experience', in: A. Sagi and Z. Zohar (Eds.), Renewing Jewish Commitment: The Work and Thought of David Hartman, pp. 73-105. Shalom Hartman Institute and Ha-kibbutz HaMeuhad: Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. − 2000. 'Magic and Mysticism: Between North Africa and Eretz Israel', Pe'amim 85, pp. 112-130. − 1999. 'The Kabbalah of Rabbi Joseph Ibn Sayyah as a Source for the Understanding of Safedian Kabbalah', Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 4, pp. 213-255. − 1997. 'Trance Techniques in the Kabbalistic Tradition of Jerusalem', Pe'amim 70, pp. 47-67 − 1996. 'The Fingers and the Senses: A Text from Even Hasoham by Josef Ibn Sayyah', Pe'amim 67, pp. 120-124. Encyclopedia Entries − Online. ‘Moses Chaim Luzzatto’, The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. De Grutyer: Berlin. − 2007. ‘Kabbalah in the Late Twentieth Century’, Encyclopedia Judaica (Second Edition). XI, pp. 677-681. Macmillan Reference: Detroit. updated June 2023 − 10 2007. ‘Idel, Moshe’, Encyclopedia Judaica (Second Edition). IX, pp. 707708. Macmillan Reference: Detroit. Other Publications − 2019. ‘A New Study of Maor ‘Enayim by R. Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl (review of D. Zori, Not in the Hands of Heaven)’, Da’at 87, pp. 713-744. − 2018. Review of J. Meir, Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem (1896-1948). Studies in Contemporary Jewry 30, pp. 264-266. − 2017. Review Article on J. Sheehan and D. Wahrman, Invisible Hands: SelfOrganization and the Eighteenth Century. The Journal of Politics, Religion and Ideology 18. Online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21567689.2017.1298275 − 2015. A Review of D. Reiser, Vision as a Mirror: Imagery Techniques in Twentieth Century Jewish Mysticism. Kabbalah 33, pp. 315-319 (in Hebrew). − 2014. A Review of R. Weinstein, Kabbalah and Jewish Modernity. Zion 80, pp. 148-153 (in Hebrew). − 2005. A Review of: J. H. Chajes, Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism, Zion 70, pp. 122-126 (in Hebrew). − 2003. ‘Towards a Post-Modern Anthropology of Jewish/Islamic Magic’, Review of: Yoram Bilu, Without Bounds: The Life and Death of Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana, Anthropological Theory 3, pp. 127-128. Papers in English Panelist: ‘Haskalah, Hasidism, and Scepticism as “Gates to Modernity’, “Gates to Modernity”: New Perspectives on Hasidism and Haskalah, Maimonides Center for Advanced Studies, July 2022. ‘Awe of Sublimity in the Practice of Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto and his Mystical Fraternity’, Minerva Summer Workshop, The University of Hamburg, June 2022. – ‘The Four Modes of Capital Punishment in Early Modern Context,’ Emmy Noether Junior Research Group: “Jewish Moralistic Writings of the Early updated June 2023 11 Modern Period: 1600-1800,” Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion, the University of Hamburg, July 2019 (Keynote Speaker). − ‘Pantheism in Twentieth Century Jewish Thought (with Prof. Itzhak Melamed), L'école des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, June 2019. − ‘Indigenous Textual Scholarship in Modern Sephardic Kabbalah’, Columbia University, IIJS, November 2017. − “Scholem’s Major Trends 75 Years Later’, Jewish Theological Seminary, November 2017. − ‘Is Traditional Jewish Thought Really Opposed to Pantheism?’ (with Prof. Itzhak Melamed), Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, Pennsylvania University, November 2017. − ‘Doubt and Certainty in Early Modern Kabbalah’, Maimonides Center for Advanced Studies: Universität Hamburg, May 2017. − ‘ “The Conversion of the Jews”: Identity as Ontology in Modern Kabbalah’, International Conference on Religious Responses to Modernity, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities/Berlin Brandenberg Academy of Sciences, December 2015. − ‘The Soul in Seventeenth Century Kabbalah’, Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, Pennsylvania University, November 2015. − ‘Yearnings of the Soul: Psychological Thought in Modern Kabbalah’, Jewish Studies Lecture, Indiana University, November 2014. − ‘Eighteenth Century Kabbalistic Cosmology’, Potts Lecture in Jewish Cosmology, The Johns Hopkins University, May 2014. − ‘The Critique of Technique in American Buddhism and Some Israeli Parallels’, Sixth Israeli Conference For the Study of Contemporary Religion and Spirituality, Tel Aviv University, April 2014. − ‘Dualistic and non-Dualistic (Animistic) Views of the Soul in Kabbalah’, The Material Soul- Animism Revisited Workshop, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University with ETH Departement Geistes-, Sozial- und Staatswissenschaften, March 2014. − ‘Soul Time in Modern Kabbalah’, Eternity, Epoch and Soul: Jewish Mystical Notions of Time, Rockwell Symposium, Rice University, − November 2013. ‘Kabbalistic Cultures in Jerusalem in the Early Twentieth Century’, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg, July 2013. updated June 2023 − 12 ‘European Kabbalah in Modern Intellectual History’, Program in Jewish Studies, Princeton University, April 2013. − ‘The Soul in the Later Writings of Rashab’. Conference: Epic Exposition: the Ayin Bet Discourses and the Mystical Thought of Rabbi Shalom DovBer Schneersohn of Lubavitch (RaShaB). Center for Jewish History. July 2012. − ‘Recovering the Soul: Psychology of Religion and Modern Kabbalah‘, Jewish Studies Program and Dean of Humanities Lecture, Rice University, April 2012. − ‘Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah,’ Spring Religious Studies Lecture, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, March 2012. − ‘Learning, Heart and Soul in Habad Psychological Theory’, Conference: Habad and the Academe. University of Pennsylvania. March 2012. − ‘The Return of the Soul: Psychological Theories in Modern Kabbalah‘, Judaic Studies Lecture Series, Yale University, March 2012. − 'Gender and Sexuality in the Luzzatto Controversy in Early 18th-century Italy', Lecture: Stanford University, December 2011. − 'Mussar as a Modern Movement'. The Third International Conference on Modern Religions and Religious Movements, Hebrew University. March 2011. − 'Jewish, Christians and Muslim Mysticisms in Medieval Egypt: Inter-Religious Phenomena and Historical Contexts'. International Conference: Institut français d’archéologie orientale, Cairo. November 2010. − April 2010. 'Shamanism and the Hidden History of Modern Kabbalah', Founding Conference of Program in Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism, Rice University. − April 2010. Lecture Series, Xavier University, Cincinnati. − 'The Modernization of Kabbalah: A Case Study'. Contemporary Jewish Mysticism: Social and Comparative Perspectives, International Conference at the Institute of Advanced Studies, July 2009. − 2008. 'The Spiritual-Mystical Renaissance in the Contemporary Haredi World', Kabbalah and Contemporary Spiritual Revival: International Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation and Ben Gurion University, − 2005. 'Autognosis in Kabbalah', Autognosis: A Theology of Self-Knowing: International Workshop at the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities. updated June 2023 − 13 2004. '"Alien Culture" in the Thought of Rabbi Kook's Circle', International Conference on Study and Knowledge in Jewish Thought, Ben Gurion University. − 2003. 'Powers of Language in Kabbalah: Comparative Reflections', The Poetics of Grammar and the Metaphysics of Sound and Sign: International Workshop at the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities. − 2000. 'Fear and Power in Kabbalah', Fear and its Representations: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. − 2000. 'Rabbi Kook and his Sources: From Kabbalistic Historiosophy to National Mysticism', First International Conference on Modern Religions and Religious Movements, Hebrew University. − 2000. 'Power in Kabbalah and Western Culture', Colloquium on Power and Religion, Haifa University. Selected Papers in Hebrew − 2017. ‘Hasidism, Shamanism and Islam: A New Perspective’. Contexts and Controversies: Conference in Honor of Professor Sara Stroumsa. Hebrew University. − 2017. ‘Ramhal and Schools of Modern Italian Kabbalah’, The House of Luzzatto: Family, Community and Tradition. Dahan center, Bar Ilan University and The Umberto Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art. − 2017. ‘Psychology in the Early Writings of R. Menahem Mendel Schneerson’, Joint Conference of Departments of Jewish Thought, Bar Ilan University. − 2010. 'The Mystical Renaissance in the Hasidic World in the Last Decade'. Hasidism: Between the Holy and the Mundane, 34th Annual Conference of the Israeli Historical Society. − 2007. 'R. Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto: Experience, Messianism and Power', Conference Marking Three Hundred Years To the Birth of Ramhal: Yad Ben Zvi and the Hebrew University. − 2006. 'Sacred Spaces and Sacred Persons in Twentieth Century Kabbalah', Ethnographic Critique of Connection and Disconnection: Israeli Anthropological Association. updated June 2023 − 14 2005. 'Research of the Kabbalah and Involvement with the Kabbalah: Possibilities and Dangers', Fourteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies. − 2003. 'The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Comparative Method of Research of Jewish Mysticism', Conference on Research Directions and Methods in Jewish Thought, Ben Gurion University. − 2002. 'A Kabbalistic Response to the Establishment of the State of Israel', Conference on Sephardi Sages and Oriental Jews in Israel 1948-1967, Tel Aviv University. − 2001. 'Kabbalah and Sufism in the Sixteenth Century', Bannet Lecture, Hebrew University. Advising Post-doctoral advisees 2020- Dr. Ori Meitlis. 2020-2021 Dr. Anna Sierka. Minerva Fellow. 2015 Dr. Yehudit Weiss, Lady Davis Fellow. 2014 Dr. Dustin Atlas, Lady Davis Fellow. 2014 Dr. Daniel Reiser. 2012-2016 Dr. Elhanan Shilo. 2010-2011 Dr. Uriel Barak. Lady Davis Fellow. With Professor Moshe Idel. Doctoral degree students 2022202220192019201920192007–2012 Mr. Aviya Yekutiel. Mr. Tom Parnas. Mr. Tzvi Luboshitz. Presidential Honors Fellow. Mr. Asher Corsia. Ms. Jianyu Shen (With Professor Andrew Plaks, Princeton University). Mr. Noam Lev-El. Rothschild Honors Fellow. Ms. Avital Sharon. Subject: “Kabbala and Halacha in the Hida's writings”. 2007– 2012 Mr. Patrick Koch (Minerva Fellow). Subject: “Human Self-Perfection: A Re-Assessment of Kabbalistic-Mussar Literature in SixteenthCentury Safed”. Published in book form by Cherub Press: Los Angeles, 2015. updated June 2023 15 2004 –2012 Ms. Sachi Ogimoto. Subject: “R. Joseph Ibn Sayyah's SuperCommentary on R. David Ben Yehudah ha-Hassid's commentary on Prayer and its Sources”. 2004 –2012 Ms. Ruth Yosian. Subject: “Existentialist and Pragmatist Dimensions of the Thought of Joseph Schechter”. Master's degree students In Process. Mr. Barak Hoffman. 2022. Ms. Tanya Behr Winchester. “Avnei Milu'im: Mystical Language in R. Ze’ev Wolf of Zhitomir’s Or HaMeir”. 2021. Mr. Aviya Yekutiel. “The commentary on Lurianic Kabbalah in the first half of the 20th Century”. Graded Summa cum laude. 2019-2021. Ms. Yael Karrie. “Hidden Lion and Snake upon the Path: A Study of R. Shlomo Elyashiv.” Mr. Tom Parnas. Title of Thesis: “'The Key of Faith': Nehemiah 2020-2021. Hiyya Hayon and the Sabbatean Kabbalah of the early 18th century.” Graded Summa cum laude. 2020-2021. Mr. Yaakov Shetreet. “The Phenomenology of the WILL in the Writings of Rabbi Shalom DovBer Schneerson (“the R. Rashab")”. 2020. Mr. Dov Bergman. “R. Eliezer Zusia Portugal of Sculen: The Thought and Ethos of a Later Hasidic Master. ” 2016-2020. Mr. Noam Lev-El (Mandel fellow). Title of Thesis: “Organization, Clarification and Reception of Kabbalistic Knowledge: Moses Cordovero and Menachem Azaria da Fano.” graded summa cum laude. 2017-2019. Ms. Shani Qedem. Title of Thesis: “The Image and Function of the “Holy Man” in Mei Ha-Siloach and Torat Emet.” 2017-2019. Ms. Jianyu Shen. Title of Thesis: “Image of the Saints: A Research of Comparative Mysticism through the Lens of Hagiographical Narratives in the Jewish and the Daoist Traditions”. 2016. Mr. Zvi Lubovitz. Title of Thesis “Wanderings and Knowledge: Studies in R. Immanuel Hay Ricchi`s Biography and Writings.” Graded summa cum laude. updated June 2023 2016-2018. 16 Mr. Asher Corsia. Title of Thesis: “Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto, Naftlai Bakrakh and Yaakov Kopel Lipschitz as Commentators on Lurianic Doctrine”. 2013 –2015 Ms. Yifat Lev. Title of Thesis: “The Tension between the Izbicha and Gur Hasidic Courts as Reflected in the Homilies on Judah and Joseph.” Graded summa cum laude. 2013–2014 Mr. Yonatan Schreiber. Title of Thesis: “A Cognitive Model for Mystical Experience Applied to the Writings of R. Yitzḥak Isaac Safrin of Komarna.” Graded summa cum laude. 2011 –2012 Mr. Yaakov Meir. Title of Thesis: “The Formation of a Hasidic Scholarship: The Bio-Bibliography of R. Yitzḥak Isaac Safrin of Komarna.” 2007 –2013 Mr. Daniel Feuerstein. Title of Thesis: “ ‘Hakal Tapuhin Kadishin’: The Zoharic Symbol and its Origins.” Graded summa cum laude. 2009 –2012 Mr. Amiel Vick. Title of Thesis: “ ‘Through which all of Israel can Ascend,’ - On the composition of Nusah HaAri by R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi.” 2009 -2011 Mr. Avishai Bar-Asher. Title of Thesis: “The White Appearance: Interpretation and Performance in the Kabbalah of R. Ya’akov Abi Hasira”. Graded summa cum laude. 2006-2009 Ms. Noga Bar-Or. Title of Thesis: “Studies of Slonim Hasidism in the Twentieth Century”. 2006-2007 Ms. Lital Avital-Lieberman. Title of Thesis: “Saint or Impure: The Image and Identity of R. Ya'aqov Wazana”. 2005-2006 Mr. Yedidyah Shiprovitz. Title of Thesis: “The Concepts of Lack and Sin in the Thought of Maharal of Prague”, Graded summa cum laude. 2005-2006 Mr. Guy Hegler. Title of Thesis: “Fear and Awe in 13th Century Kabbalah.” 2003-2005 Ms. Moran Hellerstein. Title of Thesis: “Christian Kabbalah from Its Beginnings to the "New Age" Movement”, Graded summa cum laude. updated June 2023 17 Related Professional Activity • External reviewer (articles) for the following international journals (as well as numerous journals in Israel): American Ethnologist, American Jewish Studies Review, Ars Judaica, History of Religions, Jewish History, Jewish Quarterly Review, Jewish Studies Quarterly, Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, The Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, The Journal of Religion, The Journal of Ritual Studies, Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, Psychology Research and Behavior Management, Religious Studies, Revue des études juives, Studia Religiologica, Zutot. • External reviewer for the following Presses: Bar-Ilan University Press, Bialik Press, Brill, Cambridge University Press, Cherub Press (Los Angeles), HaKibbutz Ha-Meuhad Press, Machon Ben Tzvi Press, Magnes Press, Merkaz Zalman Shazar Press, Oxford University Press, Pennsylvania University Press, Rabbi Rosen Foundation, Stanford University Press, Tel Aviv University Press, The University of Chicago Press, Van Leer Institute. • External reviewer of grant proposals for the Israel Science Foundation (2005, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022), of research proposals for the EURIAS consortium (2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017), ANR (2017) and of a study program for the Council for Higher Education of Israel (2016).