Best of the Web for the Zohar:
lectures, interviews, conferences & courses (rev. 5/11/20)
Judy Barrett
c) Conferences, discussions, events
(2020) Conference on the Vilna Gaon’s Thought and Heritage / אנליומ א''רגה לש ותשרומו ותוגה לע סנכ (Hebrew) Bar Ilan University, Israel, January 6. Program
[6:42] Section 2: History. Panel questions
[37:35] Alan Brill: The Gra on Rabbah Bar Bar Hanna
[34:22] Tzahi Hershkovitz: The GRA’s fate: a reexamination
[32:36] Arieh Morgenstern: Tradition about the GRA’s Messianic mission in light of new sources
[25:34] Alan Nadler: From Spinoza and the Besht to the Gaon: Romantic Misreadings of their Legacies
[27:35] Ada Rapoport-Adler: From 'Mitnaged' to 'Litvak': On the Dynamics of a Polemical Tag
(2019) Fourth Nehalim Conference on Jewish Thought / תבשחמל 4-ה םילחנ סנכ לארשי, Yeshivat “Bnei Akiva”, Nehalim
Shifra Asulin [1:02:45] ... On Understanding and Faith in the Zohar (Hebrew)
Tamar Meir [1:01:55] Between Fate and Choice: How the Sages related to Astrology (Hebrew)
(2019) Day of Study on the Kaddish (French) Beit Hazohar, Paris, September 15
(2019) [1:37:20] Book Launch: Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel: Human Throes: Childbirth in Psychology & Kabbalah / הזילנאוכיספב הדילה שונא ילבח" ,לאינק בונוויא-ארק תור 'רד לש הרפס תקשה ברע הלבקבו (Hebrew) University of Haifa, June 12. Table of Contents for book (scroll down)
(2019) Literature and Kabbalah Conference/ םיימוחתניב םיטביה :הלבקו תורפס (Hebrew) Bar Ilan University, June 5
[45:38] "Yehuda Liebes On Nathaniel Berman's "Divine and Demonic in the Poetic Mythology of the Zohar..."
(2019) Conference on Digital Humanities / םיילטיגידה חורה יעדמ סנכ, Shazar Center, Jerusalem, May 22
[38:18] Yossi Chajes: Ilanot -- Digital Kabbalah Maps
[32:33] Digital Historical Manuscripts
[29:50] Digitizing Tanhuma Manuscripts
[29:30] Haapah: Quantitative Analysis of Rabbinic Literature
(2019) The Mythological Figure of Israel Baal Shem Tov: 3 lectures by Jonatan Meir (Hebrew) Shocken Institute. Jerusalem, May 12,19,26
(2019) The Feminine Voice in Judaism (Hebrew) Bar Ilan University, May 5
[25:06] Yael Shemesh: Tastes of Feminist Research of the Bible
[29:45] Yael Wilfand: The Difference between Male & Female Converts in the teaching of Sages from Israel
[33:58] Dan Yaffe: Stories of Women in the Talmud
[26:51] Tsippi Kaufmann: The Besht and the System of his time
(2019) Sephardic Identitites, Medieval and Early Modern, University of Michigan Frankel Institute Symposium, March 27-28
[1:15:34] Session: 1 Tradition and Innovation
[2:13:02] Session 5: Social Networks of Sephardi Life
Maya Soifer Irish [@2:08]: The Identity of Jewish Elites in Christian Andalusia and Toledo (13th & 14th Centuries)
Ilil Baum [@31:39]: Jewish Identity in Late Medieval Crown of Aragon: Between Arabic and Catalan Culture
Mark Meyerson [@1:07:01]: The Rocky Road to Assimilation: Converso-Old Christian Intermarriage in the Late 15th Century
(2019) Thoughts on Apostasy / הריפכ ירוהרה (Hebrew) Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, March 10,17,24,31
(2019) Symposium in honor of Ronit Meroz ”The Spiritual Biography of Rashbi” / רהוזה לש םיילאוטסקטה ויתודוסיב ןויד יאחוי רב ןועמש יבר לש תינחורה היפרגויבה (Hebrew) Tel Aviv University, March 27.
(2019) Jewish Magic at Yale, Yale, February 13
Gideon Bohak, “Prolegomena to thp Study of the Jewish Magical Tradition” םינקיטסימה לש םיירותסמה םייחה
(2019) The Mysterious Life of the Mystics (Hebrew) Moussaieff Center for Kabbalah Research, Bar Ilan University, February 7
Mor Altshuler [25:25] The Book of the Magid of Joseph Karo: the first autobiography at the start of modernity
(2019) The Poetics of the Zohar: An Evening in Honor of The Art of Mystical Narrative by Eitan Fishbane (Hebrew) Shocken Institute, Jerusalem, January 2
Lawrence Fine, “Reflections on The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar”
(2018-2019) Colloquium: Literature and Kabbalah / הלבקו תורפס (Hebrew) Bar Ilan University, November 27 & December 25, 2018; January 8 & May 21, 2019
[18:01] Opening Remarks
[1:21:46] Zvi Mark: On the Narrative Layers of Liqqutei MohaRan (Hebrew)
[1:26:21] Elchanan Shilo: The Role of Kabbalah in the work of S.Y. Agnon (Hebrew)
[1:46:51] Not sure what this is
(2018)
[1:16:45] The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Zohar Symposium. [1:16:45] Audio file. Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, November 27
(2018) Kabbalah in America, Rice University, October
pa href="https://www.academia.edu/37694132/Isaac_Myer_and_the_Kabbalah_in_America_lecture_draft_.pdf">Boaz Huss, Isaac Myer and the Kabbalah in America [draft]
(2018) Jüdische und Christlich Mystik: Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede Christlich-Jüdischen Sommeruniversität des Instituts Kirche und Judentum, Berlin, July 22-27
Paul MendesFlohr [57:56] The Buber-Scholem Controversy on How to Study Hasidism
Johannes Zachhuber [46:39] Ernst Troeltsch's Conception of Mysticism
Elke Morlok [50:54] Messianic Hope beyween Kabbalistic Symbolism and Pietistic Spirituality (German)
(2018) Law as Religion, Religion as Law Conference Jerusalem, June 5-7
Stephen Fraade [36:31] “'Enjoin them upon your Children to Keep' (Deut 32:46): Law as Commandment and Legacy”
(2018) Symposium on ”Hasidism: A New History” (Hebrew) Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, May 31
David Biale [20:40] Hasidism as a modern movement and it’s roots in the 18th century
David Assaf [20:23] What’s ”new” in 19th century research on Hasidism?
(2018) L’édition du Zohar (Mantoue, 1558) et la diffusion de la cabale (French) Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, May [requires flash player to view videos]
[36:00] Mantoue, 1558: le legs d'Elie Nahmias
[1:02:00] De nouveaux mots, un nouveau sens
[1:25:00] Des manuscrits au Zohar imprimé de Mantoue
[1:09:00] La structure du texte
(2018) La Splendeur de l'Étendue (French) Beit ha-Zohar, Paris, May 27
Baumgarten, Jean. [32:17] Imprimer le Zohar à Mantoue au XVI° siècle
(2018)
[] Facsimile du Zohar de Mantoue
[:52] Édition Facsimile du Zohar de Mantoue
[:48] Impression Zohar Mantoue
[:51] Le Zohar de Mantoue (1558) réédition fac-simile
[30:14] Busi, Giulio: L'édition du Zohar de Mantoue : un grand dessein identitaire (English Version)
[31:34] Campanini, Saverio: Le Zohar chez les Chrétiens à la Renaissance
[26:44] Darmon, Julien: -Le Zohar de Mantoue et les problème des "corrections"
[5:21] Kuperminc, Jean-Claude: Présentation de l'exemplaire du Zohar de la collection Élie J. Nahmia
[40:23] Matt, Daniel: The Final Teachings of R. Shimon bar Yohai
[36:27] Salmona, Paul and Jean Baumgarten: Introduction du Colloque
[31:07] Sebban, Michael: L'édition du Zohar de Mantoue
[21:56] Les Palimpsestes du Zohar de la collection Élie J. Nahmias (Bibliothèque de l'Alliance Israélite Universelle, Paris)
(2018) In honor of ”History of the Sabbatean Movement” by Gershom Scholem (Hebrew) JTS Shocken, February 13
(2018) Rambam: the Great Eagle (Hebrew) Dahan Center, Bar Ilan University, January 23
(2018) The Kabbalah in Girona in the 13th century / האמב הנוריגב הלבקה הרשע-שולשה (Hebrew) Hebrew University of Jerusalem, January 14-15
Ronit Meroz, “The Image of the Ramban in the Zoharic Circle” (Hebrew)
(2017) The Future of the Zohar / רהוזה לש דיתעה (Hebrew, English) Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, October 23
Yehuda Liebes: “A Pearl in English” (Hebrew)
(2017) 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies. (Hebrew) Hebrew University of Jerusalem, August 6-10
Plenary session: New Trends in the Study of the Kabbalah in the Early Modern Period
[@25:07-46:31] Assaf Tamari: Medicalizing Ethics & Magic: Re-reading the Practical Aspects of Lurianic Kabbalah & their Contexts
[@ 1:07:48-1:30:20] Yoed Kadary: R. Moses Cordovero as Meta-Magus: Early Modern Magic Theory and Practice
[@46:38] Uri Safrai: Optics and the Power of Sight in Early Modern Kabbalah
Shifra Asulin: Between the Zohar & the Idrot to the "Tales of the Seven Beggars": narratives of Shiur Komah
(2017) Jewish Spirituality and Social Transformation, Institute of Jewish Spirituality and Society, July
(2017) In Honor of the 70th birthday of Malachi Beit-Arie (Hebrew + English) Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, June 26
(2017) Conference on R. Joseph Karo (Hebrew) Dahan Center, Bar Ilan University, June 20
(2017) On “The Question of the Existence of Jewish Mysticism” by Boaz Huss (Hebrew) Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, June 15
(2017)
Convocation for Shalom Sadiq’s “The essence of choice in medieval Jewish philosophy” (Hebrew) Ben Gurion University, May 24
2017) Breslav Conference : Research, Creativity and Society / הרבחו הריצי,רקחמ ,בלסרב סנכ (Hebrew) Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, April 1-4
Roni Barlev, R. Nachman of Breslav as Social Critic and Commentator
(2017) Sefer Hasidim in Context (Hebrew) National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, March 19-22
(2017) Second Nehalim Conference on Jewish Thought (Hebrew) Yeshivat "Nachal Yitzchak", Nehalim. First day videos.
(2017) Friedberg Genizah WorkShop 2017 University of Toronto
[22:55@0:45] Benjamin Porat: The Relation between Legal Revolution & Theological Revolution
(2017) On Yuval Harari’s ”Jewish Magic before the rise of Kabbalah” (Hebrew) Ben Gurion University
(2017) < href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF8oIHa8SHo"> Binitarity: Two Divinities from 2nd Temple Literature to the Beginning of Kabbalah / הלבקה תישארל דעו ינש תיב תורפסמ תויושר יתש :תוירטיניב (Hebrew) World Union of Jewish Studies
Shraga Bar-On: When You Come to the Place of Pure Marble Stones, do ot Say, 'Modim, Modim'
(2016) La providence Divine dans la philosophie d'Avicenne Institut Universitaire Rachi, Troyes, December 5-6
[31:54] La Doctrine de la Providence/
(2016) Jewish Languages conference University College London, July 26-7
Damsma, Alinda. “The Aramaic of the Zohar: The Status Quaestionis”
(2016) Seventy Faces of Aggadah (Hebrew) Bar Ilan University, July 17
(2016) The Establishment of Kabbalah Research in Jerusalem (Hebrew) Conference, Schocken Institute, Jerusalem, June 7
92016) The Future of the Zohar: A Celebration of Daniel Matt’s Zohar Translation, Berkeley, CA, May 22
(2016) To all the demons and spirits: on magic & witchcraft in the Jewish tradition (Hebrew) Moussaieff Center for Research in Kabbalah, Bar Ilan University, February 4
(2016) First Nehalim Conference on Jewish Thought (Hebrew) Yeshivat "Nachal Yitzchak", Nehalim
(2016) Conference on Prophecy (Hebrew) Tel Aviv University
(2016) Kabbalah without Borders (Hebrew) Ben Gurion University
2015) Zohar -- East and West (Hebrew + English) Bar Ilan University, Dec 28-30
(2015) Safadian Kabbalah and its Background / העיקרו תפצ תולבק סנכ (Hebrew, English) Zefat Academic College, December 6-7
Hebrew:
Adam Afterman, The Languages of Mystical Union in Elijah de Vilda’s Reshit Hakhmah
Yossi Chajes, The Lurianic Scheme as an Epistemological Portrait
Melila Hellner-Eshed, The Kabbalah of Ramak and Idra Raba
Moshe Idel, The Flourishing of Kabbalah in Tsefat and the Status of the Mishnah
Yoed Kadary, The theory of Angels in Ramak
Patrick Koch, Kabbalah and Musar in Tsefat
Yehuda Liebes, On the awareness of Ramak & his personal identity as a kabbalist
Menachem Lorberbaum, Tsimtsum between Ramak and the Ari
Ronit Meroz, Luria and his Disciples
Hagai Pely, Kabbalah and Halakhah in Tsefat
Berakhah Zak, R. Shlomo Ha-Levi Albabetz in Tsefat
(2015) Jewish Attitudes toward Wealth and Poverty, Brown University, November 1-3
Roni Barlev, Two Sides of the Same Coin – R. Nachman's Dialectic Understanding of Wealth
Biti Roi, Wealth & Poverty in Jewish Mysticism: From the Zoharic Literature to Hasidism
Gary Anderson [1:17:08] Metaphysics or Morals: The Place of Charity in 2nd Temple Judaism
(2015) Echoes of Shabbetai Sevi in Jewish Literatures, Montenegro, August
Oded Yisraeli, “The controversy on the antiquity of the Zohar in its Sabbatean context: The Incident of Rabbi Yaacov Emden”
(2015) Psalms in/on Jerusalem: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Hermeneutics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 4
Ron Hendel, Myth and Mimesis in the Psalm of Jonah
(2015) Perceiving the Other: Ancient and Modern Interactions with Outsiders Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, March 14-16
(2015) The World of the Tannaim: from Rabbinic literature to Zoharic literature. (Hebrew) Ben Gurion University, Israel, January
(2014) The Oral and the Textual in Jewish Tradition and Jewish Education The Melton Centre for Jewish Education, Jerusalem, December 23-24
[17:08] Panel Discussion: The Oral and the Written in Kabbalah and Hasidut
(2014)
[1:42:19] The Song of Songs: Translation, Reception, Reconfiguration Harvard Divinity School, April 15
Panel discussion featuring: Cheryl Exum of the University of Sheffield, Michael, Fishbane of University of Chicago Divinity School, Paul Griffiths of Duke University, and Stephanie Paulsell of HDS.
(2014) Convocation in honor of Beracha Zak’s ”From the Springs of RaMaK...” (Hebrew) Ben Gurion University, Israel
(2014) Convocation in honor of Oded Yisraeli’s ”Temple Portals” / לארשי דדוע תאמ "לכיה יחתפ" רפסה דובכל ןויע ברע (Hebrew) Ben Gurion University, Israel
(2014) Jewish Thought in Provence in the late Middle Ages / "םייניבה ימי יהלשב סנבורפב תידוהי תוגה " ןויע םוי (Hebrew) Ben Gurion University, Israel, November 19
(2014) Boei ha-Ruah: first congress of the Department of Jewish Thought / ןושארה ןליא-רב תודהי סרגנוק :חורה יאוב (Hebrew) Bar Ilan University, June 22-26
(2014) Convocation in honor of Jonatan Meir’s Rehovot Nahar: Kabbalah and Esotericism in Jerusalem 1895-1948 / הלבק :רהנה תובוחר" רפסה תאצ דובכל ןויע ברע ריאמ ןתנוי תאמ "ח"שת-ו"נרת םילשוריב הקירטוזאו (Hebrew) Ben Gurion University
[13:14] Howard Kreisel: Welcome
[21:43] Zeev Gries The Printing and Distribution of Kabbalistic Literature in Jerusalem
[14:00] Jonatan Meir Response
(2014) A Book, a Scribe, and a Story: A Tribute to Zeev Gries / רפוס ,רפס" ןויע םוי ד"עשת ןסינב 'ל תואלמגל ותשירפ םע סירג באזל הווחמ "רופיסו (Hebrew) Ben Gurion University, April 30
(2013) [2:02:49] Life after Death: halakhah and aggadah / הדגאו הכלה :תוומה רחאלש םייחה (Hebrew) Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, December 23
(2013) Jewish Studies in Iberia and the Mediterranean
[9:38] Part 6. Columbia University, New York, October 31
[38:34] Part 7.
((2013) Jewish Prayer: New Perspectives (Hebrew) Ben Gurion University, Israel, May 20-22
(2012) [1:40:06] Conference on the topic of Elohim / 'םיהולא' אשונב סנכ (Hebrew) Hagigit Student Newspaper, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 26
(2012) New Trends in Kabbalah Research: Continuity, Development, and Change (Hebrew) The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, July 10-11
[2:39:17] Considerations of kabbalah research: opening session
[1:55:00] Boaz Huss Methods and Models of kabbalah research
[2:14:56] Social and Messianic Movements in Kabbalistic Literature
Amos Goldreich [@] The True Messiah
Beraka Zak [@9:56] Messianic Activities in the Kabbalah of Cordovero
Arthur Green [@37:20] ... Differences about the Tsaddiq & the Spread of Hasidism
Rachel Elior [@1:30:14] The Indictment of Hasidism in Sabbatianism in the 18th century...
[1:30:34] Concluding session: Panel discussion
(2012) Inside Jerusalem: 30 years after Gershom Scholem (Hebrew) The National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, March 12-13
[1:04:26] Daniel Abrams: Jewish Mysticism and Magic and the Origin of Kabbalah (Hebrew)
Yehuda Liebes [53:34] After Scholem: from Rashbi to Shabbetai Zevi: metamorphoses in the hormanuta ve-samitra of the origin of the Zohar (Hebrew)
(2012) 4th Israel Congress on Contemporary Spirituality (Hebrew + English) University of Haifa, March 19-20. Program with video links
(2012) [3:25:26] Histoire du peuple juif: Minhagim: Custom and Practice in Jewish Life Tel Aviv, May
(2011) God and Creation: Jewish, Christian & Muslim Perspectives on Big Bang Cosmology, Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, December 11
(2011) Congress Departments of Jewish Thought in honor of Zeev Gries (audio) (Hebrew) Ben Gurion University, Israel, March 28. Program.
[1:20:15] Opening Session (video)
[48:29] Concluding Session (video)
(2011) Western Esotericism: Historical Contexts and Cultural Contacts
Wouter Hanegraaff: [49:17] The Archetype of Eranos: C. G. Jung and Western Ben Gurion University, Israel.
(2011) 3rd Israel Congress on Contemporary Spirituality (Hebrew + English) University of Haifa
(2010) Hekhalot Literature in Context: from Byzantium to Babylonia, Mellon Foundation, Marquette University, November 14-16
Gideon Bohak: Observations on the Transmission of Hekhalot Literature in the Cairo Genizah
Reimund Leicht: Major Trends in Rabbinic Cosmology
Rebecca Lesses: Women and Gender in the Hekhalot Literature
Ophir Münz-Manor: A Prolegomenon to the Study of Hekhalot Traditions in European Piyyut
Andrei Orlov: What is Below? Mysteries of Leviathan in the Early Jewish Accounts & Hagigah 2:1
(2010) Genesis: Origins of the Universe and Humankind, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
[2:37:37] First Panel: The Big Bang and the Birth of the Universe
Yair Zakovitch [@1:19:55] From Creation to History
Rachel Elior [@1:50:15] Mystical Perspectives on Creation
(2009) Late Aramaic - The Literary and Linguistic Context of the Zohar, University College London, November 9-11
Cook, Edward: “Eastern Aramaic in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan and the Zohar” Unrevised draft of paper delivered at the conference.
Rapaport-Adler, Ada and Willem Smelik et al. eds: Late Aramaic: The Literary and Linguistic Context of the Zohar:v.2: Proceedings of the Final Project Conference. Leiden: Brill. (forthcoming)
(2009) Zohar Symposium, Monash University Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Prato, Italy, July 13-15; Proceedings in Kabbalah, v.22-23
Eitan Fishbane: Representation & the Boundaries of Realism: Reading the Fantastic in Zoharic Fiction
(2006) [1:01:41] Histoire du peuple juif - Buber, Rosenzweig, Sholem (French) Liberté du judaïsme, Paris, October
(2005) 14th World Congress of Jewish Studies (Hebrew) Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Judaism Exists, and It Will Win (Haaretz, August 1)
Jewish Studies to Woo With Mysticism and Practical Magic (Haaretz, July 31)
(1992) Sixth International Conference on the History of Jewish Mysticism: Gershom Scholem's Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism 50 Years After (Hebrew) Jerusalem, February
Peter Schäfer: Merkavah Mysticism and Magic
Ithamar Gruenwald: Reflections on the Nature and Origins of Jewish Mysticism
Ivan G. Marcus: The Historical Meaning of Hasidei Ashkenaz: Fact, Fiction or Cultural Self-Image?
Ronald Kiener: From Ba'al ha-Zohar to Prophet to Ecstatic: Abulafia in Contemporary Scholarship
Elliot Wolfson: Forms of Visionary Ascent as Ecstatic Experience in the Zoharic Literature
Ronit Meroz: Faithful Transmission versus Innovation: Luria and his Disciples
(1991) International Symposium on Mysticism, Magic and Kabbalah in Ashkenazi Judaism Frankfurt a.Main. Papers
(1988) Third International Conference on the History of Jewish Mysticism: The Age of the Zohar / ורודו רהוזה רפס :תידוהיה הקיטסימה תודלותל ישילשה ימואלניבה סנכ (Hebrew) Jerusalem, February
Yehuda Liebes: How the Zohar was Written
Moshe Idel: An Unknown Text from "Midrash Hane'elam"
Eliot Wolfson: Anthropomorphic & Symbolic Image of the Letters in the Zohar
(1986) Second International Conference on the History of Jewish Mysticism: The Beginnings of Jewish Mysticism in Medieval Europe / תידוהיה הקיטסימה תישאר :תידוהיה הקיטסימה תודלותל ינשה ימואלניבה סנכ הפוריאב (Hebrew) Jerusalem, February
Yehuda Liebes: Ibn Gabirol's Use of the "Sefer Yetsira" & a commentary on the poem ”I love thee”
(1984) First International Conference on the History of Jewish Mysticism: Early Jewish Mysticism / המודקה תידוהיה הקיטסימה :תידוהיה הקיטסימה תודלותל ןושארה ימואלניבה סנכ Jerusalem, February
Meir Bar-Ilan: The Idea of Crowning God in Hekhalot Mysticism and the Karaite Polemic (Hebrew)
Rachel Elior: “Early Forms of Jewish Mysticism”
Karl Erich Grözinger The names of God & the celestial powers: function and meaning in the Hekhalot literature
David Halperin: “A Sexual Image in Hekhalot Rabbatai and its Implications”
Moshe Idel: Enoch is Metatron (Hebrew)
Yehuda Liebes: “The Angels of the Shofar and Yeshua Sar ha-Panim ” (Hebrew)
(1977) Conference in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Gershom Scholem (Hebrew) Jerusalem, December 4-5
Yehuda Liebes: The Messiah of the Zohar