Kabbalah and Creativity: Making/Breaking/Repairing with Yosef Rosen
Organization:
Contemporary Jewish Museum
Category:
Cultural/Jewish Descent
Geographical Area:
San Francisco
Start
Date:
9/5/2019
End Date:
9/19/2019
Start Time:
5:30 PM
End Time:
7:00 PM
Event
Info:
Thursdays, Sep 5, 12, 19 | 5:30-7pm
Throughout the past millennium, Kabbalah-the Jewish mystical tradition-has infused Judaism with a profound and unique philosophy of creativity. With its fantastical musings on the connections between cosmology, aesthetics, redemption, and spiritual life, Kabbalah has provided a connection for many Jewish between creative practice and mythological theology. At its core, Kabbalistic theory of creativity embraces breakage, deterioration, and repair as essential aspects of the creative process. Join historian and teacher Yosef Rosen for an investigation of texts that explore this mystical approach to creativity and discuss how these Kabbalistic meditations relate to contemporary life.
Classes can be taken individually or as a series.
Yosef Rosen is an historian and teacher of the eerie, esoteric, and magical parts of Judaism. His classes weave together the imaginative and social dimensions of Jewish creative genres-Kabbalah, Talmud, philosophy, poetry, and art-and invite students to discover their own modes of intellectual creativity. He is currently a Jewish Studies teacher at Jewish Community High School of the Bay. He has a PhD in Jewish Studies from University of California, Berkeley, where he completed a dissertation on theological dissensus and spiritual community in medieval Kabbalah.
Presented in conjunction with the current exhibition "Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped."
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