Ayin Bet Conference 2012

The Apotheosis of Physicality in the Thought of the RaShaB

Dr. Tali Loewenthal – Teaching Fellow, Dept of Hebrew and Jewish Studies of UCL (University College London, University of London)

“Ayin Beis” as the Culmination of a Conceptual Renaissance

Rabbi Nochum Grunwald – Editor In Chief Heichal Ha-Besht.

The Mystical Thought of RaShaB in its Educational Context

Dr. Aryeh Solomon – Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies, University of Sydney

The Soul in the Later Writings of RaShaB

Jonathan Garb – Associate Professor, Department of Jewish Thought, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Visiting Fellow, Tikvah Center for Jewish Law and Civilization, New York University”.

Tiferet ha-Nelam: Inverting the Tzimtzum Narrative & the Natural Nature of Nature

Rabbi Tzvi Freeman – senior editor at Chabad.org, also author of several books, including Wisdom to Heal the Earth.

Nequddat ha-Reshimu: Time of Transcendence and the Transcendence of Time in the RaShaB

Elliot Wolfson – Fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Distinguished Professor of Religion at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Reflections on The Habad Hasidic Weltanschauung (Hebrew)

Rabbi Yoel Kahn – a senior Chabad rabbi, who served as the leading hoizer and meiniach for the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

Round-Table Discussion: The Conference In Review

Don Seeman – Professor of Religion, Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, Emory University.