Love of the Shekhina

Biti Roi is a research fellow of the Kogod Research Center of Contemporary Jewish Thought at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. She holds a Ph.D from Bar Ilan University and is a lecturer in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University and the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem, where she teaches kabbalah and Hasidism. She was a leader and participant in the first cohort of the Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis and teaches at the Shalom Hartman Institute for various programs in Israel and abroad. Roi has won several prizes and postdoctorate fellowships (Kreitman, Polack, Elyashar) at Ben-Gurion University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Love of Shekhina: Mysticism and Poetics in Tiqqunei ha-Zohar, was awarded the Matanel World Union of Jewish Studies Prize for the best book in Jewish Studies.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. "Be-reishit taman bat"—The Centrality of the Shekhinah in the Homilies on Be-reishit2. "The Shekhinah Includes All Things"3. The Shekhinah's Affinity with 'Ilat ha-'Ilot and the Upper Sefirot4. The Sons of the Shekhinah5. The Exile of the Shekhinah: Innovations in the Tiqqunim6. The Fall of the Shekhinah and Her Restoration by the Cripple7. Shi'ur Qomah of the ShekhinahConcluding RemarksNotesBibliographyIndex