Seekers of Unity | Birth and Rebirth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis @SeekersofUnity | Uploaded September 2023 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Join us for a laborious and enlivening conversation on birth and rebirth, hope and fear, beauty and chaos, spirit and matter - winding through the tunnels of Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis.
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Dr. Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel (Ph.D. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2010) is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jewish History and Thought at the University of Haifa where she heads the Posen Saulire Foundation-funded Jewish Israeli Culture Program. She also serves as Research Fellow at the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Her research deals with intersections between mysticism, gender, and psychoanalysis.
Dr. Kara-Ivanov Kaniel was a postdoctoral fellow at New York University, the HBI center at Brandeis University, and a Kreitman and Matanel at Ben-Gurion University. She also headed a Research Group on Psychoanalysis and Kabbalah at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Her book Holiness and Transgression: Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth was published by Academic Studies Press (2017). Her book Human Ropes—Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis won the Gorgias Press competition for Jewish Thought and will soon be published by De Gruyter Press. Her new book, The Feminine Messiah: King David in the Image of the Shekhina in Kabbalistic Literature (2021) was published recently by Brill. A poet and editor of poetry, as well as translator of Russian poets into Hebrew, her book The World Has No Silence (2011) won the Rachel Negev Literature Award. Her book The Soul is Moved was published in the Ritmus Poetry Series of the Hakibbutz Hameuhad Press in 2017. Her latest poetry book, Diamonds and Ashes, will be published by Pardes Press in 2022.
Think better. Do better. Hartman scholars bring you the big Jewish ideas we need for this moment. Study with them in free virtual classes or watch the videos at: shalomhartman.org/ideasfortoday - youtube.com/@ShalomHartmanInstitute
00:00 Excerpt
00:48 Scholarship
09:09 Ruth’s Books
18:40 What is Birth?
24:17 Beauty
32:54 Psychoanalysis
41:23 Hope
48:10 A New Paradigm
56:30 Facing the Fear
59:47 Darkness and Light
1:07:04 Hope
1:09:16 Rebirth
1:11:09 Dreaming
1:12:43 Born again, and again
1:14:54 Not to be or to be?
1:16:32 Closing and opening
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Join us for a laborious and enlivening conversation on birth and rebirth, hope and fear, beauty and chaos, spirit and matter - winding through the tunnels of Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis.
Watch the full series: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_7jcKJs6iwX239Hsnl7hG3p9hPB6WQ_k
Dr. Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel (Ph.D. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2010) is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jewish History and Thought at the University of Haifa where she heads the Posen Saulire Foundation-funded Jewish Israeli Culture Program. She also serves as Research Fellow at the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Her research deals with intersections between mysticism, gender, and psychoanalysis.
Dr. Kara-Ivanov Kaniel was a postdoctoral fellow at New York University, the HBI center at Brandeis University, and a Kreitman and Matanel at Ben-Gurion University. She also headed a Research Group on Psychoanalysis and Kabbalah at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Her book Holiness and Transgression: Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth was published by Academic Studies Press (2017). Her book Human Ropes—Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis won the Gorgias Press competition for Jewish Thought and will soon be published by De Gruyter Press. Her new book, The Feminine Messiah: King David in the Image of the Shekhina in Kabbalistic Literature (2021) was published recently by Brill. A poet and editor of poetry, as well as translator of Russian poets into Hebrew, her book The World Has No Silence (2011) won the Rachel Negev Literature Award. Her book The Soul is Moved was published in the Ritmus Poetry Series of the Hakibbutz Hameuhad Press in 2017. Her latest poetry book, Diamonds and Ashes, will be published by Pardes Press in 2022.
Think better. Do better. Hartman scholars bring you the big Jewish ideas we need for this moment. Study with them in free virtual classes or watch the videos at: shalomhartman.org/ideasfortoday - youtube.com/@ShalomHartmanInstitute
00:00 Excerpt
00:48 Scholarship
09:09 Ruth’s Books
18:40 What is Birth?
24:17 Beauty
32:54 Psychoanalysis
41:23 Hope
48:10 A New Paradigm
56:30 Facing the Fear
59:47 Darkness and Light
1:07:04 Hope
1:09:16 Rebirth
1:11:09 Dreaming
1:12:43 Born again, and again
1:14:54 Not to be or to be?
1:16:32 Closing and opening
Join Seekers:
discord.gg/EQtjK2FWsm
instagram.com/seekersofunity
twitter.com/seekersofu
facebook.com/seekersofunity
Support Seekers:
patreon.com/seekers
paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=RKCYGQSMJFDRU
