Prepare for Shavuot by exploring mystical teachings on the concept of revelation. Rather than a single historical moment, we’ll see that Kabbalistic and Hasidic authors describe the divine voice as a vital force unfolding from creation and across the generations. With an eye to ethics and practice, we’ll pay special attention to how we can attune ourselves to hear this sacred voice in the texts we study, in the contemplative realm deep within our soul, and in the magnificent fullness of the world around us.
Ariel Evan Mayse joined the faculty of Stanford University in 2017 as an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies. He is the rabbi-in-residence at Atiq: Jewish Maker Institute, a lead fellow at the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and Society, and a senior fellow at the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley. Previously he served as the Director of Jewish Studies and Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts, and a research fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Michigan. Mayse holds a Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from Harvard University and rabbinic ordination from Beit Midrash Har’el in Israel.
