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Rachel Elior

Rachel Elior (born 28 December 1949) is an Israeli professor of Jewish philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Israel. Her principal subjects of research has been Hasidism and the history of early Jewish mysticism.[1]

Academic career[edit]

Elior is the John and Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Jewish Mystical Thought at the Hebrew University, where she has taught since 1978. Currently she is the head of the Department of Jewish Thought. She earned her PhD Summa cum laude in 1976. Her specialties are early Jewish Mysticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hekhalot literature, Messianism, Sabbatianism, Hasidism, Chabad,[2] Frankism and the role of women in Jewish culture.


She has been a visiting professor at Princeton University, UCL, Yeshiva University, the University of Tokyo, Doshisha University in Kyoto, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, in the University of Chicago and at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.


She is a member of the board of the international council of the New Israel Fund.

Awards and recognition[edit]

In 2006, Elior received the Gershom Scholem Prize for Research in Kabbalah from the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.[3]

Moshe Idel

Ada Rapoport-Albert

Israel Ba'al Shem Tov and his Contemporaries, Kabbalists, Sabbatians, Hasidim and Mithnagdim, Jerusalem : Carmel Publication House 2014

Memory and Oblivion: The Secret of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Van Leer Institute and Hakibutz haMeuchad, 2009

The Dybbuk and Jewish Women, Jerusalem and New York, Urim Publications, 2008

Elior, Rachel (2007). Jewish Mysticism: The Infinite Expression of Freedom, trans.Yudith Nave and Arthur B. Millman. : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. ISBN 978-1-874774-67-9. OCLC 76184139.

Portland, Oregon

Elior, Rachel (2006). The Mystical Origins of Hasidism. trans. . Portland, Oregon: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. ISBN 1-874774-84-6. OCLC 65978708.

Shalom Carmy

Heikhalot Literature and Merkavah Tradition Ancient Jewish Mysticism and its Sources, Tel Aviv: Yediot Ahronot; Sifrei Hemed: 2004 (Hebrew)  978-965-511-145-3

ISBN

Elior, Rachel (2004). The Three Temples: On the Emergence of Jewish Mysticism. : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. ISBN 1-874774-66-8. OCLC 53223716.

Portland, Oregon

Herut al Haluhot – Studies in the Mystical Foundations of Hasidism, Tel Aviv: Broad Cast University: Defense Ministry Press 1999.

Paneiah ha-Shonot shel ha-Herut -Iyunim be-Mistika Yehudit (Alpayim 15, Am Oved 1998)

Elior, Rachel (1993). The Paradoxical Ascent to God: The Kabbalistic Theosophy of Habad Hasidism. : State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-7914-1045-5. OCLC 24378568.

Albany, New York

Torat HaElohut BaDor haSheni shel Hasidut Habad, Jerusalem: Hebrew University: Magnes Press 1982 (Hebrew)

Heikhalot Zutarti: An Early Mystical Manuscript of the Mishnaic Talmudic Period, Jerusalem: Hebrew University: Magnes Press 1982 (Hebrew)

Galia Raza: 16th Century Kabbalistic Manuscript, Jerusalem: Hebrew University 1981 (Hebrew)

Yehudah Liebes, "Children of the sun vs. children of the moon" Haaretz 4/6/2003

Sacha Stern, "Rachel Elior on Ancient Jewish Calendars: A Critique" Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism - Volume 5, 2005, pp. 287–292

Peter Schaffer, Critical edition of Heikhalot Zutarti, Tarbiz 54 (1985)Hebrew, critical review of her work

David Tamar, Critical review of her edition of Galia Razia Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought 2 Hebrew (1983)

Facebook page

Prof. Elior's homepage at the Hebrew University

Dead Sea Scrolls’ origins spark debate

Rabinovich, Abraham (7 May 2009). . The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 12 May 2009.[1]

"From the sun to the moon"