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).
