Profile

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2018-2019: Yale U. affiliated scholar
2016-2018: Israel Museum-Safed College-Rothberg School, Hebrew University
2014-2016: Israel Museum- Lecturer Emunah College- Safed College- Lecturer
2013-2014:Seminar Coordinator. J. R Elyachar Center for Studies in Sepharadi Heritage, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
2011-2013: Goldstein-Goren Post-Doctorate Fellow & lecturer, Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
2010 – 2011:Rabin Post-Doctorate Fellow & Lecturer, Department of Religion & Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University, New York USA.
2009 – 2011: Lecturer, Religious Studies Dept., Yale University.
Spring 2010: Dean Ernest Schwarc Visiting Eminent Professor in Jewish Philosophy – Queens College.
2008-2009: lecturer, History Department & the Center for Jewish Studies,UCLA & AJU (American Jewish University).
2003 – 2005: Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem.
2002 – 2003: Lecturer, ‘Alliance Israelite’, Paris.
2001 – 2002:Lecturer, ‘Beit Hillel’, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

EDUCATION
2008: PhD: Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Dept. of Jewish Thought.
1990 – 1996: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Diplôme Supérieur des Arts (M.A Painting)
winter semester 1994: Art Institute of Chicago: Computer Imaging, Holography, Light Experimenting and Light Technology.
1989 – 1994: M.A. in Philosophy, University of Paris I, Sorbonne.

EXHIBITIONS
2020: Bodyscapes, Israel Museum (collective exhibition)
2019: Energeia, Galerie Topographie de l’art, Paris (collective exhibition)
Circles in the Tree, BEKI Gallery, New Haven,USA.
Les Visionnaires, galerie 24Beaubourg, Paris (collective exhibition)
2018: Hamsah hamsah hamsah in comtemporary Israeli art, Islamic art museum (collective)
City-Wide open studios, Erector Square, New Haven, USA
2017: Skyline Artefacts,biennale of Jerusalem, Skirball Museum Jerusalem (curator).
2015: Bad ve-Bad, Jerusalem Theather
2014: Machboim, Jerusalem House of Quality- Art Center
2011: BEKI Congregation, New Haven.
2010:Fingertips, Allan and Leah Rabinowitz Gallery, Slifka Center, Yale.
2008:“God loves Beauty Festival,” Wilshire Temple, Los Angeles.
2002 & 2007:Merkaz Ha-Tarbouyot, Jérusalem.
2001:Gallery Espace du Possible, Paris.
1996:Collective exhibition: Salon de Marne la Vallée, Marne la Vallée.
1995:Gallery Les Creations, Paris.

CONFERENCES
“Sefirotic Tree and divine body” Conney Conference for Jewish Art, New York, 2019.
“Abstraction and Representation in Medieval Neoplatonism philosophy and Kabbalah”, AJS, Boston 2018.
“The Role of Images in the Theory of Emanation in Medieval Neoplatonism and Kabbalah”, Common and Comparative Esotericisms: Western, Islamic and Jewish, ENSIE, Venice, 2018.
“Conceptions of emanation in Kabbalah of Gerona”, conference: kabbalah in Gerona in 13c, Scholion Center, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2018.
“Sign and Angel: an artistic portrait”, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, 2017.
“The Status of the Symbol in Theosophical Kabbalah” Bar Ilan University, 2017.
“The Status of the Symbol in Theosophical Kabbalah” Bar Ilan University, 2016.
“Image as Imaginative Space in Art and Kabbalah” Bar Ilan University, 2016.
“Images of Light in Medieval Kabbalah”, Light in a Socio-Cultural Perspective, international conference, Beer Sheva.2015
“Faith and theological Heresy in Philosophy and Early Kabbalah” E.A.J.S, July 2014.
“Conception of emanation in theosophical Kabbalah and Zohar literature”, Congress: Literature of Zohar and its generation, Ben Gurion University [Hebrew], June 2014.
“Conception of emanation in medieval Jewish philosophy and early Kabbalah”, international workshop: Arabic Neoplatonism in al-Andalus among Muslims Je FMSH-IFERws and Christians”, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 2014.
“La Kabbale et son alter ego la philosophie” C.P.A.F (Centre Paul-Albert) University of Aix-Marseille Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences, March 2013
“La réception de la philosophie néoplatonicienne et aristotélienne dans la Kabbale” I.N.A.L.C.O (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales), Paris, Fev. 2013
“The Maiden and the Lady: Kabbalah and Philosophy in the Middle Ages”
Ben Gurion University, Dept. of Jewish Thought, Dec. 2011 [Hebrew]
“Theosophical Faith and Theological Heresy in Medieval Kabbalah” AJS, Boston Dec. 2010
“God’s Infinite Dimensions in Medieval Philosophy and Kabbalah” Yale University, Nov. 2010
“The Concept of Infinity in Kabbalah,” Queens College, April 2010
“Eyn-Sof (Infinity) and the Rise of Theosophical Kabbalah,” UCLA, Center for Jewish Studies, March 2008.
“Rabbi Isaac of Acre Conception of God’s Unity” 14th International Congress for Jewish studies, Jerusalem, August 2005. [Hebrew]
“La Shefa, Influx divin et émanation dans la Cabale”, Alliance Israelite de France, Paris, June 2004.

BOOKS
בנסתר ובנגלה, האין סוף בקבלה התיאוסופית, כרוב: לוס אנג’לס, 2010
[Concealed and Revealed: “Eyn Sof” (Infinity) in Theosophic Kabbalah, Cherub Press, Los Angeles 2010]
Abraham Pincas & Sandra Valabregue, La Source et le Nuage, E.R.E.C, Paris, 2003