DANIEL C. MATT
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​Zohar and Kabbalah
 
Podcasts
The Zohar
https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-zohar
 
Videos
Gems of the Zohar – two series of three talks each
Click on the link below, then click on "Media," "CSP YouTube," and then in the search bar, type in “Gems of the Zohar.”
https://occsp.net/csp-online-event-video-library/
 
Shekhinah (The Feminine Aspect of God) in the Kabbalah (begins with an intro to Zohar)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAkCeMZk-Pw
 
Introduction to the Ten Sefirot
The opening shiur (lesson) of the English Zohar course (January 16, 2019). Here I provide a brief introduction to the Ten Sefirot, and then we explore a passage near the beginning of the Zohar, in The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Vol. 1, pp. 5-7.           
https://youtu.be/NNoZsOin5bg
 
Ayin - Mystical Nothingness
January 2021:
https://youtu.be/AvJgVNTiuac
 
The texts taught in the above video are available (along with other files) here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_D9RuKN5eeH7rV2Hu5H3RrELAvoIvsg5?usp=sharing

Meditating on a Candle
From the English Zohar course
Zohar 1:50b-51a; The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Vol. 1, pp. 282-284
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11wzmKflpGlMXSDVMdn0y3ec43iDMP4Si?usp=sharing
 
Inviting the Ushpizin (Guests) into the Sukkah
From the English Zohar course
Zohar 3:103b-104a; The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Vol. 8, pp. 163-168.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aOUpcX29QwiG1Y3JKVdUyBg2FrS_e4l9/view?usp=sharing
 
Aramaic Zohar Course  (two samples
Series 2, Shiur 4, February 24, 2022)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1E_q9O2FYwFyV094EFVnEgkxtltqLB6D2?usp=sharing
 
Series 3, Shiur 5, June 16, 2022)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UzD5VB50EapS54onD-Wr0ORA8JVxpL-o?usp=sharing

 
God and the Big Bang
 
Videos
Romemu, NYC, November 6, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6nSKKLN0t8
(To avoid chatter and such, start at 1:20)
 
Temple Beth El, Houston, January 12, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA6Oe4Md0ks
 


Finding God in the Material World

Video (partial)
For Chabad at Oxford University,  November 3, 2022
https://vimeo.com/841639915 


 
Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation
 
Podcasts
Jewish Studies channel of the New Books Network podcast:
https://newbooksnetwork.com/becoming-elijah

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Book Prize podcast (a conversation between Daniel Matt and Dr. Shira Weiss), released on November 30, 2022:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2091103/11782294-becoming-elijah


Elijah is Coming to the Passover Seder... But Who is He?
Judaism Unbound, March 30, 2023
https://www.judaismunbound.com/podcast/episode-372-daniel-matt-elijah
​

Videos
A conversation about Becoming Elijah between Daniel Matt and Barry Holtz at an event sponsored by the Center for Jewish History, in Manhattan, March 3, 2022:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBY8KVyGAGc
 
A conversation between Daniel Matt and Estelle Frankel, sponsored by Chochmat HaLev, in Berkeley, March 31, 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOlR1IPIH70
 
A talk by Daniel Matt on Becoming Elijah, sponsored by New Lehrhaus, in Berkeley, Sunday, April 3, 2022.
https://youtu.be/HFQMDIooBh8
 
The texts taught in the above video are available here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZbOuTjng_Quhek9znc_WK_1dmhRjFeEv?usp=sharing
 
A conversation between Daniel Matt and Rabbi Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein, founder and director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute, centered in Jersualem, September 1, 2022
https://www.facebook.com/Elijah.Interfaith.Institute/videos/590641399422277
 
Three sessions on Elijah         August 2022
Orange County Jewish Community Scholar Program (CSP)
Part 1, Elijah in the Bible - LINK
Part 2, Elijah in the Rabbinic Imagination - LINK
Part 3, Elijah in the Kabbalah, the Seder, and more – LINK
 
Three shiurim on Becoming Elijah (Hebrew and English Texts)
Drisha Institute for Jewish Education, September 2022
Videos of all three shiurim (under the events tab or the videos tab):
https://www.facebook.com/drishainstitute
 
and on their YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/DrishaInstitute/featured

The Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Book Prize event, March 26, 2023, at Kehilath Jeshurun, NYC. This is a conversation between Daniel Matt and Dr. Shira Weiss on Becoming Elijah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3I4Z6NJHqA
 
The Sacks Book Prize was established by Yeshiva University in honor of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. Rabbi Sacks was a British Orthodox rabbi, philosopher and theologian who served as the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain from 1991-2013.

A conversation between Daniel Matt and Abby Pogrebin on the Jewish Broadcasting Service, April 3, 2023
https://youtu.be/hHUnj0j0H0U
 
 A lecture on Elijah (in Bible, Talmud, Midrash, New Testament, Kabbalah and Hasidism) at the Calvary  Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, November 13, 2023. The talk was co-sponsored by Congregation Emanu-El as a prelude to a concert featuring Mendelssohn’s Oratorio “Elijah."
 https://www.youtube.com/@CalvarypresbyterianOrg/streams
 The texts taught in this video are available here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1tqttYbFN2xZlh4ndTRuLbvbMVpBdYpCe/view?usp=sharing





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