Jeremy Rosen
Crazy Jewish Mystics: Mysticism Starts with a Mist and Ends in a Schism: Why Do We Take Them Seriously?
Summary
Jeremy Rosen will share an overview of the complete history of Jewish mysticism and mystics - both creative and destructive. He will attempt to explain their contributions, both positive and negative, to Jewish life over the ages.
Jeremy Rosen
Manchester-born Jeremy Rosen was educated at Cambridge University England and Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He has practiced as an orthodox rabbi, as principal of Carmel College in the UK, and as professor at the Faculty for Comparative Religion in Antwerp, Belgium. He has written and lectured extensively in the UK and the US, where he now resides and was the rabbi of the Persian-Jewish community in Manhattan.
Well, I certainly think that Moses’ experience of God classifies as mysticism. It classifies as something that we cannot explain rationally how God communicates. We can analyse the brain and how the brain works. But yes, I would say any experience of God and Moses claim to experience God counts as mysticism.