EVENT: The Second Annual International Doctoral Conference, Department of Jewish Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University
August 3-4, 2022
Israel (GMT+2)
Wednesday, August 3 (zoom)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6656245911
17:30
Greetings and Opening remarks
Bar-Ilan University Rector, Prof. Amnon Albek
Dean of Jewish Studies Faculty, Prof. Shmuel Refael
Department of Jewish Philosophy Chair, Prof. Hanoch Ben-Pazi
18:00
Opening Panel
Innovations in Kabbalah Research
Chair, Prof. Gershon Greenberg
Ayelet Walfish-Fraenkel, “Between the Detained and the Rebellious: A Gender Perspective on the Myth of Lilith in the Zohar”
Hillel Feuerstein, “Between Apolo and Dionysus: The Kabbalistic Demiurge as Deus Artifex”
Eugene D. Matanky, “Collaborative Notetaking in Sixteenth-Century Safedian Kabbalah: Anonymous Disciples of Solomon Alqabeṣ and Moses Cordovero”
20:00
A Tale of a Ukrainian Town: 80 Years to the Destruction of Drohobych - Jewish Art, Culture, and Thought
Chair: Prof. Moti Inbari
Prof. Miriam Rajner, “Maurycy Gottlieb's ‘Jews Praying in the Synagogue on the Day of the Atonement’ (1878): a Polish Jewish Artist in Search of an Identity”
Dr. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, “The Rebbe Painter: Hasidic-Zionist Theology from Drohobych to Zion”
Prof. Karen Underhill, “Bruno Schultz’s Poetics of Golus: Galician Jewish Modernism in Interwar Poland and Polish as a Jewish Vernacular”
Dr. Isaac Hershkowitz, “Rabbi Dr. Ya’akov Avigdor’s Literary Project: Before and After the Holocaust”
Thursday, August 4 (Bar-Ilan Campus, Building 1002)
9:30
Gathering and Welcoming Words
10:00
3 parallel panels
A1
Jewish Mystical Traditions
Chair: Dr. Naama Ben Shahar
Yedidia Wengrower, “Shaʻare Tsedeḳ and Shaʻare Orah by R. Joseph Giqatilla – A Comparative Study”
Merav Medina Karniel, “A Literary Reading of the Midrashim of 'Teshuvah' in the Myth of Creation, as Test Case for the Textual Transformation from 'Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer' to the Zohar Literature”
Liran Haim Lavi Breslaw, “The Production of a Manuscript”
A2
Modern Jewish Thought
Chair: Dr. Miryam Feldman-Kaye
Yanir Shashar, “The Concept of God in the Thought of Modern-Day Orthodox Thinkers Divided into the External Paradigm and the Reflective Paradigm”
Yossi Breuer, “'Faith in the Thought of Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Feivelson: A Human Need for a Sense of Security or a Desire for Self-Discovery and Human Greatness”
Shahar Zadok, “Meta-Halachic and Educational Considerations in Rabbi Yuval Cherlow's Halachic Ruling”
A3
Kabbala and Modern Rabbinic Thought
Chair: Dr. Yossi Greenfeld
Tzachi Katz, “ ‘Undressed Souls’ in Rabbi Yehuda Fetaya's World”
Yosef Gohar, “Otzar Nehmad by Rabbi Moshe ben Ya'akov the Exile of Kyiv”
Nehama Amram, “Exile of Sehchinah and its Tikkun as a Leitmotif in Rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeira’s Liturgical Hymns”
Dvora Swartzberg, “Heavens - Between Essence and Metaphor in MaHaRaL's Thought”
12:00
Coffee break
12:30
3 parallel panels
B1
Junctions Between Jewish and General Philosophy
Chair: Dr. Yael Sela Teichler
Noam Oren, “Prayer: A Philosophical Inquiry”
Ido Dagan, “Time of Belief: The Effect of Henri Louis Bergson’s Concept of Durée on R. Abraham Joshua Heschel`s Concept of Belief”
Amit Omer, “Non-Metaphysical Justifications and a New Religious language: The Influence of Emanuel Kant's Philosophy on the Thought of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Rabbi Isaac Breuer”
Israel J. Cohen, “The Nature of Halakha: A Philosophical-Analytical Inquiry”
B2
Jewish Philosophy in the 20th Century
Hilla Pladott, “The Holocaust as a Turning Point in the Thought of Rabbi Léon Yehuda Askénazi (Manitou): Manitou's Teaching as Post-Holocaust Thought”
Miri Levin, “The Chasidic-Interpretive Method of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (The Lubavitcher Rebbe) for Talmudic Aggadah According to his Commentaries on Sages' Tales”
Yonatan Karish, “Seers at the Western Wall: The Common Denominator on the Concept of Prophecy in the Thoughts of Rabbi David Cohen (Hanazir), and Abraham Joshua Heschel”
B3
Jewish Medieval Thought
Chair: Dr. Niran Gerstein
Arye Rainer, “ ‘Topica’ in Averroes' Middle Commentary, on Aristotle's Topics”
Katharina Hillmann, “Dialectics in Gersonides' Commentary on Job”
Avishay Galili, “Hassdai Crescas’ Concept of God’s Infinite Dimensions and the Place of the World and its Effect on Spinoza's Epithet of Expansion."
13:45-14:30
Lunch break
14:30
3 parallel panels
C1
Theology, Religion, Revelation
Chair: Prof. Sharon Flatto
Shaul Wachsstock, “ ‘Logos of theology’: Benny Lévy’s Critical Reading of Levinas’s Commentary on Nefesh HaChaim”
Anaël Malet, “Revelation and Law in Rosenzweig’s Thought: A Cross-Examination of his Writings on Islam and Jewish Law”
Avi Kallenbach, “Converting a Christian Text to Judaism: Menahem di Lonzano’s Commentary on the Pope Prophecies”
Ran Afek, “Accepting the Unacceptable - Institutional Religion and the Ascension to Heaven”
C2
Zionist Thought
Chair: Dr. Sarit Schusheim
Raziel Seckbach, “The Meaning of the State of Israel in the Teachings of Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Hankin”
Haggai Ratner, “Simon Rawidowicz’s Idea of ‘Two Houses’ in his Analysis on the Renewal of Hebrew Literature”
Hodaya Samet Har shefi, “Jerusalem: City of Man and City of God”
Shacham Geva, “Revenge in the Hebrew Bible in an Israeli Perspectives”
C3
Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis
Chair: Dr. Leore Sachs-Shmueli
Shiffy Slovatiski, “Shadow and the Image of God in a Zoharic Story: Life and Death in one Speech”
Leah Schwartz, “A Clinical Case Study in Light of Zoharic Texts: The Role of the Text in Psychoanalytic Transformation”
Ori Fried, “Dialectic of Flaw: Tikkun of the first Human Sin in the form of Jacob-Israel in the Zoharic Literature, in Relation to the Idea of the Oedipal Complex "
16:15-16:45
Exhibition Vernissage: “Faces of Drohobych”
Curator, Dr. Isaac Hershkowitz
Daniela Mabor: Chair, Association of Drohobycz, Boryslaw and the Vicinity Descendants
Toast in honor of the Department’s newly recipients of Ph.D. degrees
17:00
Keynote lecture
Chair: Prof. Hanoch Ben Pazi
Introduction: Dr. Leore Sachs-Shmueli
Prof. Bracha L. Ettinger
“If You do Well: Carry – The First Ethical Commandment”
Conference Committee:
Dr. Leore Sachs-Shmueli
Dr. Isaac Hershkowitz
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