The Framework for Contemporary Jewish Thought and Identity

 

Fifth Annual Conference:

 

Kabbala, Mysticism and Israeli Society

 

 

Will  be held at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

 

Wednesday – Thursday, 18-19 Sivan,  5760

 

June 21-22, 2000

 

 

 

 

Conference Chairmen:

Dr. Avraham Elqayam

Dr. Boaz Huss

 

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E-mail. Chashif@vanleer.org.il

 

 

 

 

Wednesday,  18-19 Sivan 5760, June 21-22, 2000

 

9:00 am – 9:30 am           Registration

 

9:30 am – 11:15 am         Opening Remarks: Rabbi Dr. Naftali Rothenberg

 

Co-Chairman, The Framework for Contemporary Jewish Thought and Identity, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

 

FIRST SESSION

 

                              Mysticism and Israeli Society

 

 

                                             Rationalistic Responses to Mysticism and Magic in Israel Today

 

                                             Prof. Yoram Bilu

 

Department of  Sociology and Anthropology and the Department of Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

                                            

                                             Kabbala, Mysticism and the Religious Gap in Israel:

                                             Alternative Approaches and the Opposition to Them

 

                                             Prof. Harvey Goldberg

 

                                             Department of Sociology and Anthropology,

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

The Anthropology and Anthropologization of Eastern Mysticism in Israel

 

                                             Dr. Andre Levi

 

Department of Behavioral Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

 

11:15 am – 11:45 am       Coffee Break

 

11:45 am – 1:45 pm         SECOND SESSION

 

Panel Discussion:

 Kabbala, Mysticism and Being Israeli

 

                                             Chairman: Dr. Avinoam Rosenak

 

                                             Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

 

                                             Dr. Meir Buzaglo

 

                                             Department of Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

                                            

Dr. Elchanan Reiner

 

                                             Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University

 

                                            

                                             Prof. Eliezer Schweid

 

                                             Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

 

Dr. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin

 

                                             Department of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

 

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1:45 pm – 2:30 pm           Lunch Break

 

2:30 pm – 4:30 pm           Workshops

 

                                             Methods of Meditation in Judaism and Outside of It

 

                                             Rabbi Menachem Kalush

 

                                             Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

                                             Spiritual Awakening in The Zohar

 

                                             Melila Helner-Eshed

 

                                             Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

                                            

 

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm           Coffee Break

 

5:00 pm – 6:30 pm           THIRD SESSION

 

                              Mysticism, Psychology and Psychiatry

 

                                             Chairman: Dr. Andre Levi

 

                                             Department of Behavioral Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

 

                                             The Jerusalem Syndrome in the Year of the Millenium:

Reality and Fantasy

 

                                             Prof. Eliezer Witztum

 

                                             Faculty of Health Studies Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

 

                                             The Psychology of the Transcendent:

                                             God, Belief  in God and the Image of God in Man

 

                                             Dr. Micha Ankori

 

                                             Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University

 

                                             Thoughts on The Hidden in Psychoanalysis and Mysticism

 

                                             Prof. Yolanda Gempel

 

                                             Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University

 

6:30 pm – 7:30 pm           Dinner Break

 

7:30 pm – 9:30 pm           Poets Read from Their Mystical Poetry

 

                                             Chairman: Dr. Yochanan Greenshpon

 

                                             Institute of Asian and African Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

 

                                             Prof. Chamutal Bar-Yosef

 

                                             Department of Hebrew Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

                                             Binyamin Shvili

 

                                             Author, Poet, Lecturer at Alma Hebrew Institute, Tel Aviv

 

                                             Agi Mish’ol

 

                                             Poet

 

 

 

Thursday   19 Sivan 5760, June 22, 2000 

 

8:45 am – 9:15 am           Light Refreshments

 

9:15 am – 11:15 am         FOURTH SESSION

 

                              Mysticism, Science and Rationalism

 

                                             Chairman: Dr. Yisrael Koren

 

                                             Oranim – University Section

 

                                             Intercritique of Myth and Science

 

                                             Prof. Henri Atlan

 

                                             Human Biology Research Center,

Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem

 

Kabbala as Science: A Case Study of the Methodology of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Halevi Ashlag                                            

 

                                             Dr. David Hansel

 

                                             C.N.R.S., France

 

 

                                             Web culture: Science, Mysticism and Technology

 

                                             Dr. Yoav Ben-Dov

 

                                             The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas,

Tel Aviv University

 

                                             In Criticism of the Hostility Towards Folk Beliefs

 

                                             Prof. Joseph Agassi

 

                                             Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University

 

 

11:15 am – 11:45 am       Coffee Break

 

11:45 am – 1:45 pm         FIFTH SESSION

 

                              Kabbala and Creativity in Israeli Culture

 

                                             Chairman: Dr. Avraham Elqayam

 

                                             Department of Philosophy, Bar Ilan University

 

                                             The Story From the Other Side

 

                                             Dr. Michal Guvrin

 

                                             Author

 

 

                                             Kabbala and Theatrical Creativity in Israel

 

                                             Dr. Danny Horowitz

 

                                             Playwright

 

                                             Creation and Creativity

 

                                             Dr. Nadine Shenker

 

                                             Bezalel, Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, Author

 

                                             Three Shofar Blows: A Midrash for Rosh Hashana

 

                                             Udi Aloni

 

                                             Artist

 

1:45 pm – 2:30 pm           Lunch Break

 

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm           SIXTH SESSION

 

                              The Book, the Writer and the Story:

                                             The Israeli Kabbalistic Story                                 

 

                                             Chairwoman: Dr. Gitit Holtzman

 

                                             Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

                                             Patterns of  Printing of the Kabbalistic Book

 

                                             Dr. Daniel Abrams

 

                                             Department of Philosophy, Bar Ilan University

 

                                             Kabbala in an Israeli Light: Popular Kabbalistic Literature in Israel

 

                                             Dr. Boaz Huss

 

                                             Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

 

                                             The Research of Kabbala and Its Branches in Israeli Literature

 

                                             Prof. Michal Oren

 

                                             Department of Hebrew Literature, Tel Aviv University

 

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm           Coffee Break

 

4:30 pm – 6:45 pm           SEVENTH SESSION

 

                              On the Renewal of Mysticism in Israel

 

                                             Chairman: Dr. Boaz Huss

 

                                             Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

 

                                             On the Religious Significance of  the Research of Kabbala

 

                                             Prof. Yehuda Leibes

 

                                             Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

                                             “Academic Kabbala”: The Price of Modernism

 

                                             Dr. Avraham Elqayam

 

                                             Department of Philosophy, Bar Ilan University

 

“RIVAZ Superstar”: Rabbi Yochanan Ben Zakkai’s Logos Wanderings Throughout the Generations  

 

                                             Prof. Shlomo Giora Shoham

 

                                             Faculties of Law, Fine Arts, and Political and Social Sciences,

 Tel Aviv University

 

                                             The Pardess as a Public Garden:

                                             On the Growth of Mystical Dialogue within the Jewish People

 

                                             Rabbi Dr. Naftali Rothenberg

 

Co Chairman, The Framework for Contemporary Jewish Thought and Identity, the Van Leer Jerusalem institute                             

 

 

6:45 pm – 7:30 pm           Dinner Break

 

7:30 pm – 9:00 pm           Panel Discussion: Mysticism and Spirituality in Judaism and Islam

 

                                             Chairman: Rabbi Roberto Arbiv

 

                                             Midreshet Iyun, Tel Aviv

 

                                             Rabbi Menachem Fruman

 

                                             Rabbi of Tekoa

 

                                             Sheikh Ali Abu Salah

 

                                             Deir Qeards

 

9:00 pm – 9:45 pm           Islamic Dhikr Ceremony

 

                                             Sheikh Ali Abu Salah and  his son, Yacoub Hussein

 

                                             Dier Qeards

 

 

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