Kabbalah Editions

Project Supervisors

Prof. Dr. Yuval Harari
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought

apl. Prof. Dr. Gerold Necker
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Seminar für Judaistik / Jüdische Studien

Assistant Researchers

Dr. Eliezer Baumgarten
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought

Dr. Uri Safrai
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought

Dr. Vladislav (Zeev) Slepoy
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Seminar für Judaistik / Jüdische Studien

Maximilian de Molière, M.A.
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Seminar für Judaistik / Jüdische Studien

Student Assistants

Aaron Ohnesorge
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Seminar für Judaistik / Jüdische Studien

Chen Avizohar-Hagai
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought

Project related publications

E. Baumgarten, Y. Harari and U. Safrai, “Zacuto’s Alpha-Beta Shel ha-Shemot: Lexicality and the Kabbalah of Holy Names”, Daat (forthcoming) [Heb.].
E. Baumgarten, Y. Harari and U. Safrai, “Commentary on a Few Names: On the Beginning of Zacuto’s Lexicon of Holy Names” (in preparation).
E. Baumgarten and U. Safrai, “Rabbi Moshe Zacuto and the Kabbalistic Circle of Amsterdam,” Studia Rosenthaliana 46 (2020), pp. 29-49.
E. Baumgarten and U. Safrai, “Moshe Zacuto and the Kabbalah of Divine Names”, M. Frenschkowski, Y. Harari, G. Necker (eds.), Magic and Language in Early Modern Europe, Wiesbaden (forthcoming).
M. de Molière “R. Moses Zacuto’s Correspondence and the Transmission of Magical Knowledge,” in: M. Frenschkowski, Y. Harari, and G. Necker (eds.), Magic and Language in Early Modern Europe, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2021 [forthcoming].
M. de Molière, V. Slepoy and G. Necker, Binding Letters: R. Moses Zacuto’s Halakhah, Correspondence, and Kabbalah in Perspective, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (forthcoming).
G. Necker, “The Matrix of Understanding: Moses Zacuto’s Em la-Binah and Kabbalistic Works of Reference” European Journal of Jewish Studies [forthcoming] 2021.
G. Necker, “Magic in Lurianic Contexts: Aspects of Affinity and Diffusion,” in: Magic and Language in Early Modern Europe, M. Frenschkowski, Y. Harari, and G. Necker (eds.), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2021 [forthcoming].
G. Necker “The ‘Secret of the Creation of the Demons’: A Chapter in an Anonymous Lurianic Treatise Adapted by Moses Zacuto,” Jewish Studies 2 (2020), 93-112. https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/humsos/goldstein-goren/Pages/Journal.aspx