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
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
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
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
.
1:45 pm – 2:30 pm Lunch
Break
2:30 pm – 4:30 pm Workshops
Rabbi Menachem Kalush
Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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
Prof. Eliezer Witztum
Faculty of Health Studies Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
God,
Belief in God and the Image of God in
Man
Dr. Micha Ankori
Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University
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
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
Chairman: Dr. Yisrael Koren
Oranim – University Section
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
Dr. Yoav Ben-Dov
The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas,
Tel Aviv University
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
Chairman: Dr. Avraham Elqayam
Department of Philosophy, Bar Ilan University
Dr. Michal Guvrin
Author
Dr. Danny Horowitz
Playwright
Dr. Nadine Shenker
Bezalel, Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, Author
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
Dr. Boaz Huss
Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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
Prof. Yehuda Leibes
Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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