Be-Ron Yaad: Studies in Jewish Thought and Theology in Honor of Nehemia Polen

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Ariel Evan Mayse joined the faculty of Stanford University in 2017 as an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies and is rabbi-in-residence of Atiq: Jewish Make Institute (https://www.atiqmakers.org). He holds a Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from Harvard University and rabbinic ordination from Beit Midrash Har'el. His research examines the role of language in Hasidism the formation of early Hasidic literature the renaissance of Jewish mysticism in the nineteenth and twentieth century and the relationship between spirituality and law in modern Jewish thought.Avraham Yizhak Green a nationally recognized historian of Jewish religion and a theologian is the founding dean of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College and now serves as its rector. He has lectured widely and taught Jewish mysticism Hasidism and theology to several generations of students at the University of Pennsylvania; the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College where he served as both dean and president; Brandeis University; and Hebrew College. Green is the founder of Havurat Shalom an egalitarian Jewish community in Somerville MA and remains a leading independent figure in the Jewish renewal movement. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books including: Speaking Torah: Spiritual Teachings from Around the Maggids Table (Jewish Lights 2013); and Radical Judaism: Rethinking God and Tradition (Yale University Press 2011) now available in Hebrew translation. His complete translation of Meor Eynayim an early Hasidic classic is forthcoming with Stanford University Press.