Between the Lines: The Kabbalistic Tree
The Kabbalistic Tree, by J.H. Chajes, is the first book to explore the esoteric artifacts at the heart of Jewish mystical practice for the past 700 years:颈濒补苍辞迟听(trees). Melding maps, mandalas, and mnemonic memory palaces,颈濒补苍辞迟听provided kabbalists with diagrammatic representation of their structured image of the Divine. Scrolling an颈濒补苍听parchment in contemplative study, the kabbalist participated mimetically in迟颈办办耻苍,听the development and perfection of Divinity.
ABOUT YOSSI CHAJES
J. H. (Yossi) Chajes (PhD, Yale University 1999) is the Sir Isaac Wolfson Professor of Jewish Thought in the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa. Chajes has been visiting Erasmus Professor at Queen Mary University, London, a visiting professor at the 脡cole des hautes 茅tudes en sciences sociales and 91快播 in New York, a fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften of Goethe University Frankfurt, and a three-time fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Chajes directs the 鈥淚lanot Project鈥濃�攁n ambitious and unprecedented attempt to research kabbalistic cosmological diagrams. Chajes鈥檚 pioneering work has been awarded four Israel Science Foundation (ISF) research grants, the Friedenberg Prize for the outstanding ISF-funded project in the humanities, and two Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony/Volkswagen Foundation grants to develop the digital humanities project 鈥淢aps of God 鈥� Building a Portal to Visual Kabbalah.鈥� Chajes鈥檚 recent book, The Kabbalistic Tree鈥�鈥�(PSUP 2022) has been lauded as 鈥渁 monumental achievement that will be valuable to scholars and general readers interested in Judaism, religion, and art history.鈥�
