Avishar Har-Shefi

Main research areas: -

• Hassidism
• The Hasidic story
• Kabbalah
• Zohar

Biographic Information

Born in 1972, Avishar studied at Yeshivat Kiryat Shmonah, and was later among the first students at Siach Yitzhak. He helped to edit the Meshiv Ha-Ruach journal of Jewish Israeli poetry.

Avishar teaches in various institutions Kabbalah, Hassidism and literature, among others - Yeshivat Siach Yitzhak, ‘Uri’ women’s beit midrash (where he is one of the founders), Herzog College and at the Zohar Hai beit midrash.

He is the editor of an anthology of Hassidic thought and stories (Bar Ilan University) as well as the ‘Atar’ journal, together with his wife, poetess Sivan Har Shefi.

Books:

Chariots of Fire (Poems, Schocken books, 2004)

The Myth of the Edomite Kings in Zoharic Literature: Creation and revelation in the Idrot texts of the Zohar (Cherub press, 2015)

To Him Who Holds The Land (Poems, ‘62 books’, 2015)