Seeing Kabbalah Through Its Trees: The Kabbalistic Tree, New Perspectives

A conversation between J. H. (Yossi) Chajes, the Sir Isaac Wolfson Professor of Jewish Thought in the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa, and Vassar’s Marc Michael Epstein, Professor of Religion on the Mattie M. Paschall Davis and Norman H. Davis Chair and Director of Jewish Studies. Free and open to the public. The professors will discuss the genre of “ilanot” (trees), the striking parchment rolls devoted to visualizations of kabbalistic lore that have been created and used by kabbalists since the fourteenth century for study and contemplation.