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Session Submission Type: Seminar
There has been a very significant interest in the study of emotions in the field of Religious Studies in the recent past although less so in Jewish Studies. In the case of the study of Jewish mysticism, while there has been a significant turn towards social, sociological, and psychological features of this tradition, it remains the fact that little sustained attention has been afforded the study of the role of emotions and emotional life. This is especially surprising given the centrality of affect and emotions in this tradition. The proposed seminar seeks to advance rigorous inquiry into this topic by bringing together eight scholars across the wide range of Jewish mysticism.
The papers include the following:
"Fear and Wrath as Literary Patterns in Hekhalot Literature" (Michael Swartz)
"Am I Loved?: Signs of Love in the Zohar" (Ronit Meroz)
"Shame and Clothing in the Zoharic Myth" (Rut Kaniel)
"Shame in the Panoptic Culture of the Zohar" (Joel Hecker)
Emotion as Self-Formation and Imitatio Dei in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalistic Ethics (Eitan Fishbane)
"The Question of Anger in Moshe Cordovero and Elijah de Vidas" (Lawrence Fine)
"'Enduring Many Evils:' Suffering, Despair, and Hope in Sefer Pokeah Ivrim" (Hartley Lachter)
"Emotional Emphases and Styles Among Hasidic Masters and their Disciples" (Nehemia Polen)
Chair: Sharon Koren
Michael D. Swartz, Ohio State University
Joel Hecker, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Ronit Meroz, Tel Aviv University
Ruth Kaniel Kara-Ivanov, Haifa University
Nehemia Polen, Hebrew College
Eitan P. Fishbane, Jewish Theological Seminary
Lawrence B. Fine, Mount Holyoke College
Hartley W. Lachter, Lehigh University