Daniel Matt will focus on the concept of Shekhinah (the feminine half of God) from Her rabbinic origins to Her full flowering in the Zohar.
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Shekhinah: The Re-Emergence of the Goddess within Judaism, with Daniel Matt

One of the boldest contributions of Kabbalah is the idea that God is equally female and male. Prof. Daniel Matt will very briefly trace the development of Kabbalah and then focus on the concept of Shekhinah (the feminine half of God) from Her rabbinic origins to Her full flowering in the Zohar, the masterpiece of Kabbalah. Shekhinah represents the re-emergence of the Goddess within Judaism.

This talk will be recorded and shared with students for up to 2 weeks.

Daniel Matt is a scholar of Kabbalah. He has been featured in Time and Newsweek and on National Public Radio. His books include The Essential Kabbalah (translated into seven languages) and God and the Big Bang. In 2022, his biography of Elijah the Prophet (Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation) was published by Yale University Press in their series Jewish Lives, and it was awarded the inaugural Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Book Prize, established by Yeshiva University.

Daniel spent 18-years translating the Zohar. His nine-volume annotated translation - The Zohar: Pritzker Edition – received various awards and has been hailed as “a monumental contribution to the history of Jewish thought.”

Daniel received his Ph.D. from Brandeis and taught for many years at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He has also taught at Stanford and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Daniel lives in Berkeley and currently teaches Zohar online (danielcmatt.com).

Price: $15 (Online event only, via Zoom)

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