Bonus episode in English. Season 2 launches in a few weeks!
In this bonus episode, we turn away from geography,politics, or history, and ask instead: what is the deeper meaning of the Land of Israel? Why couldn’t Zionism be realized in Uganda, but only here? To explore these questions, I speak with Elliot Wolfson, one of the foremost scholars of Kabbalah. Together, we discuss zimzum (divine contraction), the breaking of the vessels, and the mystical, even messianic, significance of the land—both in Jewish tradition and in messianic strands of religious Zionism today.
Professor Elliot Wolfson, UC Santa Barbara
Elliot R. Wolfson is a world renowned scholar of Jewish studies, comparative mysticism, and the philosophy of religion.
Wolfson is a Professor Emeritus (previously the Marsha andJay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was also the Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies at New York University (1987–2014).
Wolfson wrote many books and won many awards, including two National Jewish Book Awards in the Scholarship category. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Jewish Research, and theAmerican Society for the Study of Religion.
Wolfson has also published three volumes of poetry(drawn from the collection of poems he has amassed for decades called Preparations for Death) and he has had a gallery show of his paintings. He has served as the editor of the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy since its inception in 1992, and has also served on various editorial boards for book series and journals.
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