Annual Lecture 2019

29 October 2019

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We would like to invite you to MCAS's Annual Lecture on October 29, 2019, at 18:00. Ada Rapoport-Albert (UCL) will talk about "Did the Elevated Status of Divine Femininity in Theosophic Kabbalah Have a Bearing on the Status of Women?"

Did the Elevated Status of Divine Femininity in Theosophic Kabbalah Have a Bearing on the Status of Women?

Abstract
This lecture questions the assumption, often implied in recent studies of gender issues in Kabbalistic literature, whereby the elevation of divine femininity from the bottom to the top of the Sefirotic hierarchy and even to the domain that lies above it reflected, or perhaps engendered, the incorporation of women in the theurgic practice of the Kabbalists, which aimed to advance the redemptive project of perfecting the union of male and female within the divine realm.

Ada Rapoport-Albert is professor emerita of Jewish history and former head of the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at UCL.

Date
October 29, 2019