Papers in English

 

  • ’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.