at KAM Isaiah Israel, 1100 E. Hyde Park Blvd
Friday, March 13 to Sunday, March 15, 2009

Daniel C. Matt, Ph.D.

Daniel C. Matt is one of the world’s leading scholars of Kabbalah and Zohar. He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University, and taught Jewish studies for twenty years at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. He completed 10 books before beginning “The Zohar: Pritzker Edition”, the first-ever translation and annotation based on a critical Aramaic text.

Friday Evening, March 13 at 8:00 p.m.
Shabbat Service, Award Presentation & Lecture - “Shekhinah: The Feminine Half of God”

One of the most radical contributions of Kabbalah is the idea that God is equally male and female. He will briefly trace the development of Kabbalah and then focus on the concept of Shekhinah, the feminine aspect of God, from its rabbinic origins to its full flowering in the Zohar, where the Shekhinah is identified with the Sabbath Bride.

Saturday Afternoon, March 14 at 1:00 p.m.
Lecture/Study Session – “Raising the Sparks: How to Discover God in the Material World”

How can God be encountered in our daily life? He will explore this question with us by teaching passages from Kabbalah and Hasidism on the nature of God and the universe, the act of Creation and the challenge of discovering God in the material world.

Sunday Morning, March 15 at 10:30 a.m.
Lecture – God and the Big Bang: Discovering Harmony between Science and Spirituality”

Exploring the parallels between Kabbalah and contemporary cosmology. How does the mystical understanding of Creation compare with the modern theory of the origin of the universe? Is there a way to harmonize these two approaches – the scientific and the spiritual?

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

For more information, please call (773) 924 -1234
or email KAMII@kamii.org
KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation * 1100 E. Hyde Park Blvd *
Please enter from Greenwood Ave.