CANCELED What is Sacred about Emotions? A Historical Exploration of Emotion in Hasidism

JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES

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SPEAKER: Leore Sachs Shmueli, Bar Ilan University

Dr. Leore Sachs Shmueli is a senior lecturer in the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Bar Ilan University. Her expertise lies in the fields of Kabbalah and Hasidism, with a particular emphasis on topics related to ethics and morality, the rationale of commandments, the history of emotions, and gender studies. She is currently engaged in research projects that employ computational analysis to examine various conceptual and linguistics constructs of Hasidic traditions and mystical texts.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies.