Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Graduate Student, Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought
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Boaz Huss
Yuval Harari |
About
Yoed Kadary is a Ph.D. student at the Jewish Thought Department of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He received his master's degree cum laude from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, having completed a thesis on the debate about prayers to angels in the new kabbalah circle in Jerusalem at the 16th century, under the supervision of Prof. Moshe Idel. This research was supported by a scholarship for academic excellence from the Mandel Institute of Jewish studies. He also awarded Lio Lubin prize and Avraham Kahana fund prize for outstanding paper.
He is currently working on a book based on his thesis research.
His current research focuses on the angelology of the sixteenth-century Safed's kabbalist R. Moses Cordoviero, who was designated by Gershom Scholem as "the greatest theoretician of the Kabbalah."
In this research he analyzes theoretical issues such as the influence of ancient angelology like the Heichalot and Merkava angelology's on Cordoviero; the role of angels in the "Practical Kabbalah" and Jewish magic; representations of angels in the Jewish liturgy; establishing the subject through the "otherness" of the angels; the hierarchy of esoteric knowledge, and embodiment theophany of angels as opposed to apotheosis.
The project is supervised by Prof. Boaz Huss and Dr. Yuval Harari. This research is receiving full four-year support of the Negev Scholarship for Outstanding Ph.D. students.
He is also working as a research assistant on another research project supervised by Dr. Yuval Harari, titled "Practical Kabbalah in Hebrew Manuscripts" which maps the field of Jewish magic as it appears in the manuscripts written between the 14th and the 17th century.
Another project he takes part in as a research assistant is preparing for publication Prof. Bracha Zack's new book – a critical edition of never previously published chapters of the book "Alima Rabati" a complicated Kabbalistic myth by R. Mosses Cordoviero.
His main research interests are Angelology, Kabbalah and Jewish magic.
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