SACRED ATTUNEMENT:JUDAISM AND MINDFULNESS

"Sacred Attunement: Judaism and the Cultivation of Mindfulness in the Everyday" 7:30 p.m. / Tuesday, March 2 / Free Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista

Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB Michael Fishbane, Nathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Chicago Divinity School

Event Description: Michael Fisgbane will discuss the role of spiritual practices in Judaism (through ritual and meditation) which cultivate different types of consciousness and awareness. He will consider diverse examples from the full range of Jewish religious history, including related topics from his recent book, Sacred Attunement: A Jewish Theology. Courtesy of The Book Den, copies of Sacred Attunement: A Jewish Theology will be available for purchase and signing at this event. Speaker Profile: Michael Fishbane is the Nathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago, and was for many years Chair of its Committee on Jewish Studies. He is the author or editor of over 20 books and hundreds of articles in scholarly journals and encyclopedias. Among his many works are Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel; Garments of Torah Essays in Biblical Hermeneutics; The Kiss of God: Spiritual Death and Dying in Judaism; and The Exegetical Imagination. Jewish Thought and Theology. His recent books include Haftarot, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, and Sacred Attunement. A Jewish Theology (2008). He is presently completing a comprehensive commentary on the Song of Songs. Recipient of many scholarly awards, Fishbane has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and three times a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University. He is also a member of the American Academy for Jewish Research. An article on Fishbane’s work appears in the Encyclopedia Judaica (2nd ed.). In 2005 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Jewish Scholarship from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture (2005). Sponsors: The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara, a program of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, is cosponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures, Department of Religious Studies, Congregation B’nai B’rith, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara, and Santa Barbara Hillel.