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Negotiating the Boundaries of Legitimacy

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Join the Center for Judaic Studies at DU for a public lecture and series of Rimon: Master Classes in Judaic Studies with internationally renowned scholar of Jewish Philosophy

Shaul Magid

“Jewish Renewal in Contemporary America: Negotiating the Boundaries of Legitimacy”

Jewish Renewal has moved into its second generation. Join Professor Magid as he examines the question of “legitimacy” more generally through the lens of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s recent Hebrew writings.


Shaul Magid is the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair of Jewish Studies at Indiana University. Professor Magid’s work focuses on Kabbalah, Hasidism and medieval and modern Jewish philosophy. He is the author of Hasidism on the Margin: Reconciliations, Antinomianism and Messianism in Izbica and Radzin Hasidism. Editor of God’s Voice from the Void: Old and New Essays on Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav and co-editor of Beginning Again: Toward a Hermeneutic of Jewish Text.

• Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 7 P.M.
• University of Denver, Gottesfeld Room
• Daniel L. Ritchie Center, 4th Floor
• 2201 E. Asbury Ave., Denver
  

Join Professor Magid for a unique and intimate learning opportunity as he leads series of Rimon: Master Classes on

“Lurianic Kabbalah on Scripture”


Much of the focus on Kabbalah in the academy has dealt with Kabbalah’s metaphysical world-view, its liturgical and devotional applications, and its historical setting. Less work has been done on the hermeneutical strategies used by Kabbalists to re-write Scripture in their own image and how these interpretive schemes may have been responding to local and global events in the Jewish world. This series of classes focuses on one kabbalistic fraternity, that of Rabbi Isaac Luria in 16th-century Safed, and explores the way they used Scripture as a lens to understand the major theological and cultural events in their time.

• Wednesday, April 25, 2007 from 4-7 P.M. and
• Thursday, April 26, 2007 from 4-7 P.M.
• University of Denver, Multi-Purpose Room 3430
• Daniel L. Ritchie Center, 3rd Floor
• 2201 E. Asbury Ave., Denver
  

All events are free and open to the public; however, RSVPs are required, as space is limited. Please call 303.871.3660 or email palarsen@du.edu.

For more information on the lecture series or the Master Classes, visit our website at www.du.edu/cjs.

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