Jewish Mysticism. Reception of the Zohar, Mystical Hermeneutics.

Books

1. Sockets of Fine Gold - The Kabbalah of R. Shimo'n Ibn Lavi, Magnes Press & Ben-Zvi Institute, 2000 [263 pages] (Hebrew).


Edited Books

1. Shefa Tal: Studies in Jewish Thought in Honor of Bracha Sack (together with Zev Gries and Haim Kreisel) (Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2004)


Articles

1. `The Theory of Sephirot in Ketem Paz by Rabbi Shim'on Lavi', Pe'amim 40, 1990. pp. 51-84 (Hebrew).

2. `Theurgic Trends in the Kabbalistic Teaching of Rabbi Simeon Lavi', Daat 28, 1992. pp. 19-39 (Hebrew).

3. `Gnizat Ha-Or in R. Simeon Lavi`s Ketem Paz and the Lurianic Doctrine of Zimzum', Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought, 10 (Lurianic Kabbalah), 1992. pp. 489-504 (Hebrew).

4. `The Book `Poke'h Ivrim' - New Information about the History of Kabbalistic Literature', Tarbiz 61, 1992, pp. 489-504 (Hebrew).

5. `On the Status of Kabbalah in Spain after the decrees of 1391: The book `Poke'h Ivrim', Pe'amim 56, 1993, pp. 20-32 (Hebrew).

6. `A Dictionary of Foreign Words in the Zohar - A Critical Edition' Kabbalah 1, 1996, pp. 167-204 (Hebrew).

7. `Rabbi Joseph Gikatilia`s Definition of Symbolism and its Influence on Kabbalistic Literature' Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought 12, l996, vol. 1, pp. 158-176 (Hebrew).

8. Sefer Ha-Bahir, Book Review on: Daniel Abrams, The Book Bahir, An Edition based on the Earliest Manuscripts, Tarbiz 65, 1996, pp. 333-340 (Hebrew)

9. `The Life and Works of Rabbi Simeon Lavi', Asufot 10, 1998, pp. 109-134 (Hebrew).

10. `Sefer Ha-Zohar as a Canonical, Sacred and Holy Text: Changing Perspectives of the Book of Splendor between the Thirteenth and Eighteenth Centuries', The Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy 7, 1998, pp. 257-307.

11. `The Anthological Interpretation: The Emergence of Anthologies of Zohar Commentaries in the Seventeenth-Century', Prooftexts 19, 1999, pp. 1-19.

12. `A Sage is preferable than a Prophet: Rabbi Shim`on Bar Yohai and Moses in the Zohar`, Kabbalah 4, 1999, pp. 103-139 (Hebrew)

13. `NiSAN, the Wife of the Infinite - The Mystical Hermeneutics of Rabbi Isaac of Acre', Kabbalah 5, 2000, pp. 155-181.

14. `The Hebrew Vita', The Apocryphal Ezekiel, eds. M. Stone, D. Satran & B.G Wright, Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2000, pp. 92 - 95.

15. Mysticism versus Philosophy in Kabbalistic literature, Micrologus 9, 2001, pp. 125-135

16. `Sabbatianism and the Reception of the Zohar`, The Sabbatian Movement and its Aftermath, Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought 17, 2001, Vol. 1, pp. 53-71.

17. `Madonna, die 72 Namen Gottes und eine postmoderne Kabbala` 10 + 5 = Gott, Die Macht Der Zeichen, ed, D. Tyradellis & M.S. Friedlander, Judisches Museum Berlin 2004, pp. 279-294.

18. `The Zoharic Communities of Safed`, Shefa Tal, Studies in Jewish Thought and Culture presented to Bracha Sack, eds. Z. Gries, H. Kreisel, B. Huss, Beer Sheva, 2004, pp. 149-169. (Hebrew)

19. `Kabbalah and Magic in the writings of R. Menahem Ziyyoni', Magic and Magic in Judaism, eds. M. Idel & I. Gruenwald, Styx Publication, Groningen. Accepted for publication, submitted 1996 [27 printed pages] .

20. `Sacred Space, Sacred Time and Sacred Book: The impact of Sefer ha-Zohar on the pilgrimage to Meron and Lag ba-Omer Celebrations, Kabbalah 6, Accepted for publication, submitted 2001 [38 printed pages].

21. `The Emergence of the Zohar as an Imagined Text`, Tarbiz, Accepted for publication, submitted 2002 [46 printed pages] (Hebrew)


Other Publications

1. Compte Rendu: Peter Schafer et Joseph Dan (edite par) Gershom Scholem's Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism: 50 years after, Annales 49,1994, pp. 1265-1267 (French).

2. Commentary on Sharon Packer's, Jewish Mystical Movements and the European Ergot Epidemics, Israel Journal of Psychiatry, 35, 3, 1998, pp. 240-241 (in collaboration with E. Witztum).

3. Seelenwanderung, Theologische Realenzyklopaedie, Band XXXI, 2000, pp. 4-6 (German).

4. Book Review on: Bracha Sack, The Kabbalah of R. Moses Cordovero, Jewish Quarterly Review, LXXXVIII, 1998, pp. 310-313

5. Theosophie, Theologische Realenzyklopaedie, Forthcoming (German).


Professional Activities

Head of the Discussion and Research Group `Kabbalah, Mysticism and Contemporary Israeli Society`,The Framework for Contemporary Jewish Thought and Identity, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 1998-2000 (in collaboration with Dr. Avraham Elqayam).

Co-moderator of E-Idra, Internet academic Forum on Jewish Mysticism (in collaboration with Mr. Yacov Travis)