• 2016. The Autonomy of Modern Kabbalah. Cherub Press.
• 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).

          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.

   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.

          -          Forthcoming. 'The Sixteenth Century', in: E. R. Wolfson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Kabbalah. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

          -          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.

          -          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.

          -          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.

  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 20^th 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 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 Ha-Meuhad: 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.

“’The Conversion of the Jews’: Identity as Ontology in Modern Kabbalah’, Proceedings of International Conference on Religious Responses to Modernity, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities/Berlin Brandenberg Academy of Sciences.

“Surprised by God: R. Menahem Medel of Vitebsk’s approach to Divine Worship and its Influence in Tiberias.” Submitted to volume on Tiberian Hasidism.

         -          2007. 'Kabbalah in the Late Twentieth Century', Encyclopedia Judaica (Second Edition). XI, pp. 677-681. Macmillan Reference: Detroit.

          -          2007. 'Idel, Moshe', Encyclopedia Judaica (Second Edition). IX, pp. 707-708. Macmillan Reference: Detroit.

Other Publications

          -          Forthcoming. Review article on J. Sheehan and D. Wahrman, Invisible Hands: Self-Organization and the Eighteenth Century.  The Journal of Politics, Religion and Ideology.

          -          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 (in Hebrew), pp. 148-153 (in Hebrew).

          -           2012. ‘Mussar, Curriculum and Exegesis in the Circle of Ramḥal’,

Tikvah Working Paper, Tikvah Center for Law and Jewish Civilization, New York University. http://www.nyutikvah.org/pubs/1112/Garb.html

          -          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.

• ’The Conversion of the Jews’: Identity as Ontology in Modern Kabbalah’, Proceedings of 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.
• ‘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, XavierUniversity, 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.
• 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.

• 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, 34^thAnnual 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.
• 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.