Best of the Web for the Zohar:
lectures, interviews, conferences & courses (rev. 5/11/20)
Judy Barrett
b) Interviews, Reviews and Media
Israel Abrahams
(1919) Jewish Life in the
Middle Ages
Adam Afterman
Robert Alter
Bet Avi Hay
Mor Altshuler
David S. Ariel (My Jewish Learning)
(n.d.) Prayer
in
Medieval Jewish
Mysticism
(n.d.) The Kabbalistic Conception of God
- Nice article, rather light explanation of G-d and Ein Sof.
(n.d.) Mystical
Shabbat
(n.d.) Mitzvot
& Jewish Mystics
David Assaf
Alan Avery-Peck (My Jewish Learning)
Avishai Bar-Asher (Hebrew)
(2019) Illusion versus Reality in the Study of Early Kabbalah: Isaac the Blind’s commentary on Sefer Yetsirah (Hebrew)
(2019) Lab-Grown
Historiography: The Imaginary Sources of the Bahir & the… origins of Kabbalah (Hebrew)
(2018) “Berikh Shemeh”: …an Anonymous Aramaic Prayer that Found Its Way into the Zohar & the Siddur (Tarbiz, 86)
(2017) Earliest Citation from the Zohar & from Whence it Received its Name (Hebrew) (Kabbalah, 39)
Meir Bar-Ilan / מאיר בר אילן (Hebrew)
(2019) The Numbers in Talmudic Legends – Numerological Remarks (Hebrew) (Derech Agada, 14)
(2018) Ancient
Hebrew Poetry in the Talmud, Prayer and Hekhalot Literature (Moreshet Israel, 15) (Hebrew)
(2016) Review of
Tzahi Weiss, Letters by which Heaven and Earth were Created (Hebrew) (Katharsis, 24) English
Abstract
(2014)On
Mladen Popovic, Reading the Human Body: Physiognomics & Astrology in the DSS and Hellenistic-Early Roman
Period Judaism (Dead Sea Discoveries, 21.1)
(2013) Six
Differences
between Two
Creation Stories in Genesis
(2010) The Voice
of Women: From Near and Afar (Hebrew) English
Abstract
(2009) (Review
of)
J. Liebes, Ars Poetica in Sefer Yetsira (Hebrew) (Katharsis, 10)
(1998) Parashat Mishpatim
(1997) The Names of the Angels (Hebrew) English Abstract
(1997) The
Secret World of the People of Qumran and the Sages (Hebrew) Shnaton, 11) English Abstract
(1996) Review of
Michael Swartz, Scholastic Magic: Ritual & Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism (Hebrew) (Kabbalah, 4)
(1994) Fabulous
Creatures in Ancient Jewish Traditions (Hebrew) (Mahanaim, 7) English Abstract
(1993) Witches
in The Bible And In The Talmud
(1993) The
Attitude towards Women in some of the books in the Pseudepigrapha (Hebrew) (Beit Mikra, 38/133)
(1993) The Hand
of God: A Chapter in Rabbinic Anthropomorphism
(1993) The Torah written on the Stones on Mount ‘Ebal (Hebrew) English Abstract
(1993) Hekhalot
Literature and the Motives for its Writing (Hebrew) (Mahanaim, 6)
(1990) So shall
they put My name upon the people of Israel (Num 6:27) (Hebrew) (HUCA 60) English Abstract
(1989) Mysticism
and Erotica: The Resemblance Between the Two in Late Antiquity (Hebrew) (Mahut, 6)
(1988) Magic
Seals on the Body among Jews in the First Centuries C.E. (Hebrew) (Tarbiz, 57) English Abstract
(1988) Text Criticism, Erotica and Magic in The Song of Songs (Hebrew) (Shnaton, 9)
(1987) Sitrey Tefilah veHekhalot (Hebrew) English
Abstract
(1985) The Throne of God: What is Under it, What is Opposite it, What is Near it (Hebrew) (Da‘at, 15) English
abstract
(1984) The Idea
of Crowning God in
Hekhalot Mysticism and the Karaite Polemic (Hebrew)
(n.d.) Bibliography of
Metatron (Hebrew)
Jonatan Benaroch (Hebrew)
(2016) Sava-Yanuka and Enoch-Metatron as…Senex-Puer Archetype: a Post-Jungian Inquiry into a Zoharic Myth
(2016) Vow and Oath as Mythical Acts in the Zohar (Hebrew)
Jonatan Benaroch and Israel Jacob Yuval (Hebrew)
(2019) From
an Egyptian Abomination to a Christian Rite A Zoharic Homily on the Paschal Lamb (Hebrew)
Ariel Bension / ןויצ ןב לאירא
Michael Berger
Nathaniel Berman
Yoram Bilu
Harold Bloom
David R. Blumenthal
Gerrit Bos
Ra’anan Boustan
Alan Brill
Ruth Calderon
Michael Carasik
Peter Cole
Joseph Dan / ןד ףסוי
James Davila
Esti Eisenmann (Hebrew)
(2016) The First Encyclopedia? The
mystery of ”Ahava ba-ta’anugim” (Hebrew) (Ynet, November 26)
Uri Ehrlich / ךילרא ירוא
(2009) New Computer
Techniques To Analyze Historic Hebrew & Arabic Documents (Science Daily, August 17)
Dov Elbaum
Rachel Elior
Avi Elqayam
Morris Faierstein
Zev Farber
Eitan Fishbane / פשביין איתן
Michael Fishbane
Steven Fraade
Pinchas Giller / רליג סחניפ
Elliot K. Ginsburg
Martin Goodman
(2018) Judaism
ithout a Temple: An Excerpt from M. Goodman’s “A History of Judaism” (Los Angeles Review of
Books, February 20)
(2017) A
history of Judaism: Charting our history, texts — and disputes (The JC, October 27)
Arthur Green
David Greenstein
Avraham Grossman
(2010) How
Was Miriam the Ideal Female Figure in Rabbinic Literature?
Ithamar Gruenwald / דלונירג רמתיא
Moshe Hallamish
Yuval Harari
Judith Hauptman
Christine Hayes
(2019) The Goy: A Synchronic
Proposal (Ancient Jew Review, February 27)
(2016) [24:45] The Bible in University
Education: interview by Shmuly Yanklowitz
(2015) [8:33@4:15] Interview with The
Jewish Channel
(2014) [2:11:40] What is Rabbinic
Literature?
Yoram Hazony
Joel Hecker
Samuel C. Heilman
(n.d.) Thoughts on the Netflix Documentary ”One of Us” (UC Press blog)
Shai Held (re: Abraham Heshel)
(2019) Robert
Alter’s Bible: a
symposium (Jewish Review of Books, Winter)
(2018) The
Heart
of Torah Interview by Alan Brill with Shai Held
(2017) [1:34:20] The Heart of Torah Book Tour in
Chicago
(2017) [1:20:01] Conversation with Rabbi Shai
Held - Profiles of Faith
(2013) Wonder
and Indignation: Abraham’s Uneasy Faith (Jewish Review of Books, Winter)
(2013) Shai
Held on Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence
(2011) An
Interview by Alan Brill with Rabbi Shai Held
Melila Hellner-Eshed
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Catherine Hezser
(2018) Followers,
Servants, & Traitors: Representation of Disciples in the Synoptic Gospels & Ancient Judaism
(2016) …Ps.
84:12: Sun Symbolism in Hellenistic Jewish Literature and in Amoraic Midrashim
(2013) Dirt and Garbage in the Ancient Jewish Religious Imagination and in Daily Life
(2010) Material
Culture and Daily Life
(2008) The
Halitza Shoe: Between Female Subjugation and Symbolic Emasculation
Barry Holtz (parasha)
(2019) The Confusion of Revelation:
Parashat Yitro
(2017) A Sage for Today: Rabbi Akiva
(2017) [11:09] The King’s Torah and the Torah’s King: parashat Shofetim (audio)
(2011) The Routine and the
Profound: Parashat Mishpatim
(2010) [5:23] Greeting God’s Presence in Our Lives: parashat Vayakhel-Pequdei (audio)
(2010) [10:03] The Mystery of the
Red Heifer: parashat Huqqat (audio)
Elliott Horowitz (halacha)
(2004) Sabbath
Delights: Toward a Social History, p.131-159 in Gerald Blidstein, ed. Sabbath: Idea, History,
Reality. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press.
Boaz Huss
Moshe Idel
Louis Jacobs
William James
(2018) [42:26] William James’s ‘The
Varieties of Religious Experience’ (In Our Time) (audio)
(2013) [11:10] The Varieties of
Religious Experience by William James (audio)
(n.d.) [10:20:55] Varieties of Religious
Experience by William James read by Various, Part 1/3 (audio)
Naomi Janowitz
Sara Japhet / תפי הרש
(n.d.) Survival
and Revival: Megillat Esther and Ezra-Nehemiah (The Torah)
(n.d.) Unraveling
Megillat Esther: How the Story was Developed (The Torah)
Jewish Theological Seminary
(2012) [17:04] A Visit to the Special
Collections at The Library
#exc/za Aryeh Kaplan
Lawrence Kaplan
(2015) Thoroughly
Modern
Maimonides; a rejoinder (Jewish Review of Books, Winter)
(2014) Thoroughly
Modern
Maimonides (Jewish Review of Books, Fall)
Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel
Don Karr
Jacob Katz
(1993) Bernard
Cooperman, “Afterword: Tradition & Crisis & Study of Early Modern Jewish History,”
Elie Kaunfer
Menahem Kellner
(2010) God and
Idolatry (Jewish Review of Books, Spring)
Reuven Kimmelman
(2006) Rabbinic
Theology of the Physical: Blessings, Body & Soul, Resurrection, Covenant, Election
(n.d.) Instructed
To
Curse,
Inspired To Bless (My Jewish Learning)
Menahem Kister
(n.d.) Second Temple
Era Physical and Metaphysical Measurements Ordained by God (Orion Center)
Sharon Koren
(2019) How to
Experience the Zohar’s Splendor (Tikkun, February 8)
(2014) The Symbol
of Rebekah in the Zohar (Abstract)
(2010) Immaculate
Sarah: Echoes of the Eve/Mary Dichotomy in the Zohar
(2009) The
Menstruant as “Other” in Medieval Judaism and Christianity (Nashim, 17)
N. Daniel Korobkin
(2013) Kedushah, Shema, and the
Difference Between Israel and the Angels (Hakirah, 17)
Admiel Kosman
(2018) An
Overview of Masculinity in Judaism: A Bibliographical Essay
(2015) Multilingual
Bibliography of Names of God in the Hebrew Bible & in Rabbinic Literature…
(2010) R.
Johanan & Resh Lakish: the Image of God in the Study Hall, “Masculinity” v. “Femininity”
Admiel Kosman & Nissan Rubin
(1997) Clothing
of Primordial Adam as a Symbol of Apocalyptic Time in Midrashic Sources (Harvard Theological
Review, 90)
David Kraemer
(2010) Reading the Rabbis: The Talmud as
Literature (BookBlog, January 10)
Haim (Howard) Kreisel
(n.d.) What Is Prophecy? the Views of Sa’adia
Gaon, Judah Halevi, Ibn Ezra, and Maimonides (The Torah)
E.Y. (Yehezkel) Kutscher
(1969) Words and their
History (Ariel, 25: 64-74)
Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal
(2013) Reconsidering
the Study of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: 5 Decades after E. Y. Kutscher…
Jiri Langer
(1969) The Metamorphosis of Jiri Langer (Jewish
Observer, May) (Enter “Jiri Langer” into search box)
Daniel J. Lasker
(2017) Translations of
Rabbi Judah Halevi’s Kuzari (Seforim Blog, June 5)
Andreas Lehnardt
(2007) Research
on Jewish Liturgy: 2002-2007 (EJJS, 1.2)
Zvi Leshem
Rebecca Lesses
(2010) Women
and
Gender
in the
Hekhalot Literature
(2006) “He
Shall Not Look at a Woman”: Gender in the Hekhalot Literature
(2001) …Women
as sorceresses, exorcists, & demonesses in Babylonian Jewish society of late antiquity
(1996) Speaking with Angels:
Jewish and Greco-Egyptian Revelatory Adjurations
Daphna Levin
Jon D. Levinson
(2013) Category
Error: a
response & rejoinder (Jewish Review of Books, Winter)
(2012) Category
Error (Jewish Review of Books, Fall)
Yehuda Liebes (Hebrew)
Peter Linehan
(2000) Spain,
1157–1300: A Partible Inheritance
Hananel Mack (Torah)
(2015) [28:01] On Parashat Naso with Dov
Elboam (Hebrew + Hebrew subtitles)
Jay McCrensky
(n.d.) Ancient
Rituals, Enduring Values
Shaul Magid
Paul Mandel
(2019) Were
Ancient Rabbis as Focused on Bible Interpretation as We Think They Were? (Mosaic, March 19)
(2019) Book
Note: The Origins of Midrash (Ancient Jew Review, February 11)
(2017) On the
Evolution of the Word midrash as a Hermeneutic Term in Late Antiquity. Abstract: Is
There a Text in this Midrash? Biblical Exegesis during the 2nd Temple & Early Rabbinic Periods
(1992) Sources of
Knowledge in Qumran & Rabbinic Literature:…the Evolution of a Metaphor (Orion Center)
(1994) The Call of Abraham:
A Midrash Revisited (Prooftexts, September)
Daniel Matt
(2014) [6:20] Adam, Eve
and The Zohar (Kabbalah Me documentary)
Yakov Z. Mayer
(2018) Crying at the Florence Baptistery entrance – A testimony of a travelling Jew (Renaissance
Studies,
October 25) Abstract
(2017) Rashbi
and Rav Hamnuna: between Spain and Germany (Hebrew)
Jonatan Meir
Ronit Meroz / זורמ תינור
Metropolitan Museum of Art
(1993) The
Art of medieval Spain, A.D. 500-1200
Yonatan Miller
Abraham Millgram
Charles Mopsik (French)
(2002) [1:01:23] Lire Le
Zohar (French)
(2001) [44:34] Introduction au Zohar :
le fond de la Kabbale (French)
Judith H. Newman
(n.d.) Prayer
Practices in Daniel (Bible Odyssey)
Vered Noam / םענ דרו
(2017) “Why did the Heavenly Voice Speak Aramaic? “Ancient Layers in Rabbinic literature”. Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplements, v.22: 157-68.
Andrei Orlov
Agata Paluch
Mordechai Pachter / רטכפ יכדרמ (Hebrew, txt)
(2012) [19:42] Seventy Faces: on parashat
Noah (Hebrew)
Shalom Paul /
Yakir Paz
Haviva Pedaya
Tomer Persico
Jakob Petuchowski
(1972) The Theological Significance of the Parable in
Rabbinic Literature & the New Testament
(n.d.) Theology
and Poetry: Studies in the Medieval Piyyut (Oxford University Press)
Shlomo Pines
(1974) Guide of the Perplexed vol 1 (Chicago)
(n.d.) Profile (Jewish Virtual Library)
Nehemiah Polen
Oded Porat (Hebrew)
(2016) Aimed Inquiry and Positive Theology in Sefer Ma’ayan haHokhmah(Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 24) (English)
(2015) The Linguistic Form ‘The Air was established’ (Nivka haAvir) in Sefer Ma’ayan haHokhma… (Hebrew) (Da’at, 78)
(2012) Book of the Fountain of Wisdom (Hebrew)
(n.d.) The Writings of R. Azriel from Girona (Da’at HaMakom)
Ada Rapoport-Albert
Daniel Reiser
(2019) [1:34] Dr. Daniel Reiser to Speak at Touro College about Holy Fire
(2019) Interview by Alan Brill – Imagery Techniques in Modern Jewish Mysticism. Pdf of interview. Table of contents..
Alexander Rofé
(n.d.) Balaam
the Seer Is Recast as a Villain (The Torah)
(n.d.) The
Account of Balaam’s Donkey: A Late Polemical Burlesque (The Torah)
Biti Roi
(2020) [21:40] The Shekhina & Feminine in
Kabbalah: interview with Shmuly Yanklowitz
(2017) [27:22] Yehuda Liebes on her
book: Love of the Shekhinah (Hebrew) Text of
remarks
(2017) The
Zoharic Story – a Study on Zoharic Narrative (Hebrew)
(2016) [1:11:37] Siyyum of the Translation of the
Zohar: interview of Daniel Matt
(n.d.) Tomer
Persico: The Exile of the Shekhinah as a Possibility for Holiness in the Diaspora (Hebrew)
(2015) Jewish
philosophy in non-philosophical texts- the Name of God: Kabbalistic reactions (Hebrew)
(2015) Images
of a Feminine Divinity: From Ancient Rabbinic Literature to the 18th Century (Hebrew)
(2015) Ritual
and Body from Tiqqunei Zohar to the Kabbalah of the Ari (Hebrew)
(2003) Feminine
and Femininity: Images from the Kabbalah Literature (Hebrew)
David Roskies
(2019) Remarks on Eitan
Fishbane (Tikkun, February 8)
Ishay Rosen-Zvi
(2019) Goy: Israel’s Multiple Others and the
Birth of the Gentile (Reading Religion)
(2019) Gender and the
Goy (Political Theology Network)
(2018) Ophir and
Rosen-Zvi’s “Goy” (The Talmud Blog)
(2017) Unexpected
Influences | Beth Berkowitz and Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Ancient Jew Review)
(2015) How
the Pig Changed Israeli Society (Haaretz, July 12)
(2013) In
What Sense Were the Rabbis Roman?: on Hayim Lapin’s Rabbis as Romans (Marginalia, 8/15)
(n.d.) Sotah (Jewish
Women’s Archive)
(n.d.) Sotah,
Tractate (Jewish Women’s Archive)
(n.d.) In
the Torah, Is the Ger Ever a Convert? (The Torah)
Norman Roth
(n.d.) Jewish
Clothing in the Middle Ages (My Jewish Learning)
T. M. Rudavsky
(2019) Review:
Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Science, Rationalism, & Religion (Notre Dame Philosophical
Reviews, June 18)
Tova Sacher
(n.d.) The
Inner
Workings of a Genizah Midrash on the Symbolic Value of Orlah (The Torah)
Michael Satlow
(2019) The
Poor and Their Relief in the Mishnah (Blog, August 15)
(2019) The
Hasidim ha-Rishonim and other Ancient and Modern Fantasies (Blog, February 12)
Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
(2014) [1:26:53] Remembering Reb Zalman: A Heart as
Big as the World (Part 1)
(2014) [28:05] Remembering Reb Zalman: A
Heart as Big as the World (Part 2)
(2014) Remembering
Reb Zalman Tikkun, 7/10/14
(2014) Reb
Zalman’s Gift to Us All Rabbis without Borders, 7/9/14
(2014) Remembering my
rebbe
(2014) Reb
Zalman Married Counter Culture to Hasidic Judaism (Forward, July 3)
(2014) Zalman
Schachter-Shalomi, Jewish Pioneer, Dies at 89 New York Times, 7/8/14
(2007) Interview: on
Mystic Experience and Mysticism for a New Humanity
(2007) [2:12] Reb
Zalman’s
“Last Encounter with the Lubavitcher Rebbe”
(2004) [6:39] On his early years with Reb Shlomo
Carlebach
(1998) [9:54] Pioneers in Psychedelic Research
Lawrence Schiffman
(2016) [7:36] Interview: Does God Need Your Mitzvot?
(2012) [6:11] JPS Interview
Gershom Scholem
(2019) Hasidism:
Unknown Lectures by Gershom Scholem from 1945 (Hebrew) (Kabbalah, 43)
(2019) …Why
did Gershom Scholem achieve super star status? (Hebrew) (Haaretz, November 27)
(2019) Gershom
Sholem and Jacob Neusner: their previously unknown relationship (Tikkun, September 4)
(2019) Scholem!
From Berlin to Jerusalem to My House (Jewish Review of Books, Fall)
(2019) Gershom Scholem’s Mystical Encounters with
History (National Library of Israel blog, 7/31/19)
(2018) [1:14:11] Noam
Zadoff, “Gershom Scholem: From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back” (mp3)
(2018) Messianic
Movements: Unknown Lectures by Gershom Scholem from 1947 (Hebrew) (Dehak, 10)
(2018) [49:10] Peter Schäfer, Jüdische Mystik?
Gershom
Scholem revisited (German)
(2018) [57:56] Paul MendesFlohr, The Buber-Scholem
Controversy on How to Study Hasidism
(2018) Secularization of the Kabbalah &
Criticism of Messianism Gershom Scholem (Hebrew)
(2018) [24:19] Julia Schneidawind: Gershom Scholem
as
Collector
(2018) Secrets
Of Gershom Scholem’s Library In Jerusalem (Forward, 5/1/18)
(2018) The Secret
Metaphysician (Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2018)
(2018) Zionist
Regrets (New York Review of Books, 6/28/18)
(2018) Master
of modern Judaism (Washington Jewish Week, 7/26/18)
(2018) The
Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem (Tablet, 2/5/18)
(2017) Would
Gershom Scholem have hated Bibi’s government? (Times of Israel, 10/9/17)
(2017) Review
of Stranger in a Strange Land by George Prochnik (Guardian, 7/4/17)
(2017) Six Hundred
Thousand Faces (Paris Review of Books, 6/13/17)
(2017) Gershom
Scholem: Modern Mystic (Wall Street Journal, 5/17/17)
(2017) Looking
for the man who took the Kabbalah mainstream (Washington Post, 5/8/17 )
(2017) A
Guide to Religious Anarchy: Gershom Scholem’s Kabbalah (New Yorker, 3/14)
(2017) When
Gershom Scholem Discovered Kabbalah (Jewish Book Council)
(2017) [23:23] Unknown Letters from the
Scholem Archive (Hebrew)
(2017) [51:40] Between Biography and Historiography:
Writing the Life of Gershom Scholem
(2017) Just a
Thought: On Hebrew (Jerusalem Post, 6/22/17)
(2016) Remembering
the
Scholems by
Walter Laquer (Jewish Review of Books, Winter
(2016) [52:29] Sha’ah Historit: on Gershom
Scholem (Hebrew) (audio only)
(2015) Stuck
between
Berlin and Jerusalem by Shaul Magid (Tablet, 3/10/15)
(2014) 1897:
A
Man Who Made Kabbala Accessible Is Born (Haaretz, 12/5/14)
(2013) [1:46:56@29:33] How History is Useful and
Harmful to Life: Nietzsche & Gershom Scholem (Hebrew)
(2014) Gershom
Scholem:
Obituary for
Erich Neumann (Erel Shalit, 7/6/14)
(2013) Gershom Scholem by Shaul
Magid (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
(2013) Gershom
Scholem, Father of Modern
Kabbalah Study (JSpace News, 12/4/13)
(2013) David Assaf: An Enigmatic
Dedication to Gershom Scholem (Hebrew) (Et-Moi, 231)
(2012) Visiting Gershom
Scholem (Times of Israel, 2/20/12)
(2012) “Gershom
Scholem, 30 Years On”. (Jewish Ideas Daily, 5/8/12)
(2012) [22:02] Gershom Scholem and
Agnon (Hebrew)
2012) [20:42] Eli Eshed on Scholem’s outsize
influence (Hebrew)
(2012) [1:15:30] Gershom Scholem and the Hebrew
language (Hebrew) (audio only)
(2012) [45:45@11:28] Scholem as a Collector
and Bibliographer & his relation to the National
Library (Hebrew)
(2011) Between
Diaspora and Israel: the universal image of Gershom Scholem (Hebrew) (Peamim, 145)
(2009) Exile without a
Messiah (Hebrew) (NRG 1/4/09)
(2008) Genizei
Scholem
by Jonatan
Meir (Hebrew) (Tarbiz, 78.2)
(2008) TOC and Preface
of: The
Latest Phase: Essays in Hasidisn by Gershom Scholem (Hebrew) (David Assaf and Esther Liebes, eds.,
Jersualem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, Am Oved Publishers, 2008, XIV+420 pp.)
(2005) Sabbatean Subversion (Haaretz, 2/4/05)
(2002) The Heretic by
Cynthia Ozick (New Yorker, 9/2/02)
(2003) The
Magician (New Republic, March 3)
(2002) (Gershom
Scholem) A good sectarian (Economist, 11/28/02)
(2002) Mysticism and Mystery of Gershom
Scholem (Haaretz, 4/2/02)
(2000) Review of The Library of
Gershom Scholem on Jewish Mysticism (Hebrew) (Zion, 65)
(2001) Ignorance and
Bliss (Wilson Quarterly, Summer 2001)
(1998) Review
of
On the
Possibility of Jewish Mysticism in Our Time (New York Times, 3/1/98)
(1987) Origins
of the Kabbalah
(1982) Gershom
Scholem, professor of Jewish mysticism, is dead (New York Times, 2/22/82 )
(1980) How I Came to the
Kabbalah (Commentary, May)
(1980) Sabbatai
Zevi, by Gershom
Scholem (Commentary, February)
(1980) The
Threat of Messianism: An Interview with Gershom Scho1em (The New York Review of Books, August 14)
(1979) Review
of Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History by David Biale (Commentary, November)
(1967) Reflections on S.
Y. Agnon (Commentary, December)
(1964) [1:37:07] Interview
with Gershom Scholem (Hebrew)
(1964) Religious
Authority & Mysticism (Commentary, November)
(1961) Martin Buber’s
Hasidism (Commentary, October)
(n.d.) [26:49] Open University interview with
Gerhom Scholem on Agnon: pt.2 (Hebrew)
(n.d.) [37:48] Open University interview with
Gerhom Scholem on Agnon: pt.3M (Hebrew)
(n.d.) Gershom
Scholem & the Study of Mysticism (MyJewishLearning)
(n.d.) Review
of David Biale’s Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah
(ReformJudaism.org)
(n.d.) The
Gershom Scholem Family Bible (National Library of Israel)
Michael Sebban
(2010) [6:43] Prégnance de la Kabbale et
quelle vision pour le monde actuel? (French)
The Secret History of Western Esotericism (audio)
(n.d.) [47:04] Plutarch’s Myths of
Cosmic Ascent
(n.d.) [44:34] The Esoteric Philo
(n.d.) [43:47] The
First Western Esotericist: Philo of Alexandria
(n.d.) [43:51] Naomi Janowitz
on Jewish Magic and ‘The Jewish Magi’ in Antiquity
(n.d.) [43:05] Palaces of
Heavenly Wisdom: The Hekhalot and Merkavah Traditions
(n.d.) [40:07] Enoch,
Apocalyptic, and
Abrahamic Faith
(n.d.) [45:11] The
Numbers Don’t Lie: Joel Kalvesmaki on ‘Pythagorean’ Number
(n.d.) [31:20] Otherworlds, Inner
Worlds, and Utopias
(n.d.) [51:27] The
Birth of the Symbol: Peter Struck on Ancient Greek Esoteric Hermeneutics
(n.d.) [32:19] Don’t Spill
the Beans: Pythagorean Silence
(n.d.) [34:27] Methodologies
for the Study of Mysticism
(n.d.) [31:20] The Long Secret
History of Judaism, Part I
(n.d.) [27:12] Prayer to
the Gods of Night: The Near-Eastern Roots of Astrology
(n.d.) [31:07] We’re
Together In
Dreams: Dreaming and Western Esotericism
(n.d.) [43:07] Magicians,
Ghosts, Amulets, and Spells: Daniel Ogden on Græco-Roman Magic
(n.d.) [32:48] Methodologies for the
Study of Magic
(n.d.) [26:11] So What is Western
Esotericism, Anyway?
Shai Secunda
(2019) Quarried in
Air: on Sefer Yetsirah (Jewish Review of Books, Spring)
(2018) Sacrificial
Speech (Jewish Review of Books, Summer)
Alan F. Segal
(2008) [55:51] Life After Death in
Judaism
Eliezer Segal
(1995) The Ten Sefirot of
the Kabbalah
(n.d.) The Ascent
to the Merkabah–The Mystical Chariot that bears the Divine Throne
(n.d.) Chanting
the Bible: Ta’amei Ha-Miqra
(n.d.) What Is An Upsheren, or
Halaqah? (My Jewish Learning)
Shaul Shaked / דקש לואש
(2019) [1:56:51] Interview with The Israel Academy
of Sciences and Humanities (Hebrew)
Omri Shasha
(2017) Words
revealed only to us: on the story of Kefar Tarsha & its adaptation (Hebrew)
Nadin Shenkar / רקנש ןידנ
(2013) [25:19] Receiving
Shabbat with Nadin Shenkar: Parashat Tsav (Hebrew + Hebrew subtitles)
Avigdor Shinan
(2018) Commentary
on
Avot (Hebrew)
(2014) Interview
about the revision of his book, ”Sefer Ha-Aggadah: an ancient treasury” (Hebrew)
Keshet Shoval
(n.d.) Between Matter & Spirit:
Bread and Wine in the Ritual of Grace after Meals (Hebrew)
Michael Sokoloff
(2005) A Dictionary of Judean Aramaic
(review) (Hebrew Studies, 46: 387-389, excerpt)
(n.d.) Review
by Jan-Wim Wesselius of A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic & Geonic Periods
(n.d.) Review by Gary
Rendsburg of A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic &
Geonic Periods
Adin Steinsaltz
(2017) The
Babylonian Talmud Is Now Available Free Online in English and Hebrew (Tablet, February 7)
(2017) Bringing the Rambam into the
modern era (Arutz Sheva, July 18)
(2012) [7:00] PBS
Religion & Ethics: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
(2012) [10:09] The Thirteen Petalled Rose by Adin
Steinsaltz (Chapter 1 Part 1)
(2012) [13:44] The Thirteen Petalled Rose by Adin
Steinsaltz (Chapter 2 Part 1)
(1977) Review
of: The Essential Talmud, by Adin Steinsaltz (Commentary, January)
(n.d.) The Thirteen Petalled Rose
(podcast)
David Stern
(1998) Introduction to:
Midrash and Theory
(1981) Rhetoric
and Midrash: The Case of the Mashal
Shana Strauch-Schick
(n.d.) The
Inner Workings of a Genizah Midrash on the Symbolic Value of Orlah (The Torah)
Leo Strauss
(1974) Guide of the
Perplexed vol 1 (Chicago)
Myra Struckmeyer
(2006) Female
Hospitallers in the 12th and 13th centuries
Yaakov Sussmann
(2014) Open
Access to Yaakov Sussman’s Thesaurus of Talmudic Manuscripts (Ancient World Online, June 18)
Assaf Tamari
(2016) Being an Erev Rav (Hebrew)
Israel Ta-Shema / עמש-את 'מ לארשי
(2010) What Israel Ta-Shma
Saw (Jewish Ideas Daily, June 14)
(2008) Ask the
Rabbi: The Power of
Torah (Jerusalem Post, April 3)
(2001) Learning Torah Day and Night (Haaretz, October
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(n.d.) Yehuda Liebes on Ha-Niglah
she-be-Nistar (Hebrew)
Joseph Telushkin
(2016) [42:28] Jewish Wisdom for the 21st Century:
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz interview
(2014) [58:49] Joseph Telushkin’s “Rebbe” -
A conversation with Gary Rosenblatt (audio)
(2013) [2:35] Hillel
Isaiah Tishby
(1991) Review by Elliot Ginsburg of The Wisdom of the
Zohar: An Anthology of Texts (Journal of Religion, 71)
Joshua Trachtenberg
(1939) Jewish Magic and Superstition
Evely/n Underhill
(2015) [55:23] Evelyn Underhill: The
Making of a Mystic
(1911?) [40:56] Mysticism: Part One -
IVa. The Characteristics of Mysticism (audio)
(1911?) [24:22] Mysticism: Part Two -
The Mystic Way (Introduction) (audio)
USCDornsife
(ongoing) Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer Electronic Text
Editing Project
Andrea Valerio
(2015) …The Renovatio Ecclesiae
& the Emergence of Female Autonomy (12th - 15th centuries)
Jeffrey Veidlinger
(n.d.) Digital
Judaica (Association for Jewish Studies)
Burton Visotzky
(2020) [12:08] Love Your Neighbor as Yourself: an
interview with Shmuly Yanklowitz
Herbert Weiner
(1994) Farewell,
My Rebbe:
Thoughts On Leadership (New Jersey Jewish News, June 2)
(1970) The
Rabbi & The Rebbes: book review of 9 1/2 Mystics: The Kabbala Today (Commentary, February)
(1961) Religion:
Judaized Christianity? (Time, September 8)
(n.d.) Alone
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Little Moses: Two Interviews with the Rebbe in the 1950s
Dov Weiss
(n.d.) [47:21] Judaism
Unbound Episode 131: Protesting God - Dov Weiss (audio + written synopsis + hyperlinked footnotes)
Shira Weiss
(2013) [48:44] Akeidat Yitzchak
Tzahi Weiss
(2018) “Sefer Yesirah” and Its Contexts: Other Jewish Voices. Table of Contenrs + Introduction
(2015) …The
ATBH of R. Hiyya in Light of a Syriac, Greek & Coptic Cipher (Journal of
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Elie Wiesel
Robert Adams
OCCSP Podcast Network: (audio)
(n.d.) [1:23:36]: A Talk About Elie Wiesel’s “The Forgotten”
Arthur Green
(2013) Arthur
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Yael Wilfand
(2015) Review of: Poverty, Charity &
the
Image of the Poor in Rabbinic Texts from the Land of Israel (Review of Biblical Literature,
September 9)
(n.d.) Profile (Judaism and
Rome)
Elliot Wolfson
(2018) Jewish
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(2013) [3:15] Eros and the Kabbala
(2013) On
Imagination & Narrative in Jewish Thought: An Interview with Elliot Wolfson
(ongoing) Scholarship
(1994) Metatron
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(1994) The
Image of Jacob Engraved Upon the Throne: , Esoteric Doctrine of the German Pietism
(1993) The
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(n.d.) Profile (Jewish Virtual
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Nathan Wolski
(2019) Review by Morris Faierstein: The Zohar Pritzker
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(2018) Review
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Edward Wright
(2016) [46:31] Biblical Forgeries:
Creating a Biblical Book
Ada Yardeni
(n.d.) Papyrological
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Oded Yisraeli
(2016) Jewish
Medieval Traditions Concerning the Origins of the Kabbalah
(2015) The
Mezuzah as an Amulet: Directions and Trends in the Zohar (Jewish Studies Quarterly, 22)
(2012) Further
Adventures in new Zohar scholarship: review by Alan Brill of his “Honoring Father and Mother in
Early
Kabbalah: From Ethos to Mythos.” JQR, 99 (2009): 396-415.
(n.d.) A
Chapter in the History of Aggadic Interpretation in the Zohar (Hebrew)
Berakhah Zak
(2004) Shefa Tal: Studies in
Jewish
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Aviva Zornberg
(n.d.) Torat
Emet: Arousing the Truth with Malachi and the Piacezner Rebbe (The Torah)