Head of Shlomo Moussaieff center, Editor of Daat Journal

My main research interests are in Kabbalah, Mysticism and Religious Studies. The main themes in my work are implementing philosophical-linguistic insights from linguistic pragmatics in analyzing Kabbalistic language; inter-relations between Jewish and Islamic mysticism (Kabbalah and Sufism, respectively), especially in the Middle Ages; poetry and social deviance in Safed Kabbalah; first-generation Sabbateanism and its roots in heterodox mystical streams in Islam and European Christian millenarianism; and mysticism, poetry and ritual within the Sabbatean D?nmeh sect. my research thought draws on a diverse toolbox, containing, among others, methods from the history of ideas, anthropology, psychology and psychoanalysis, sociology, linguistic pragmatics – all in addition to classical philological methods traditionally employed in the study of texts.