On Shabbat, June 7, 2014 at 6:50 p.m., Cong. Rinat Yisra­el Adult Education, 389 W. En­glewood Ave, Teaneck pre­sents Dr. Jonathan Dauber, Associate Professor of Jewish Mysticism, Yeshiva Universi­ty speaking on “Maimonides and the Emergence of Kab­balah.”

This talk will describe the manner in which the first Kabbalists commit­ted their esoteric lore to writing as a means of combating Maimonides’ influence. Despite this, the first Kabbalists appropriated various themes from his work and from the work of other Jewish rationalists. In sum, this talk examines the complexities of the interac­tions between mysticism and rationalism.

Dr. Jonathan Dauber is an Associate Professor of Jewish Mysticism at Yeshiva Univer­sity’s Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Jewish mysti­cism from New York University and is the au­thor of Knowledge of God and the Develop­ment of Early Kabbalah (2012).