Hillel Mali

My work is devoted to the analysis of the basic categories of worship in the Bible, and not to detailing their development in post-biblical literature. I wish to outline the contours of the ritual map that stands at the heart of Jewish existence through diachronic studies, starting with the literature of the ancient Middle East and followed by the literature of the Second Temple and the literature of the Tanaim, and to explore questions of reference to the seam between the ethical, the ritual and the political.

Academic Biographical Information:

Dr. Hillel Mali is a senior lecturer in Bible and Talmud at Bar-Ilan University as well as Herzog Academic College and Shalem College. Previously a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, he also served as a Gruss Scholar in Residence at the New York University School of Law and a departmental guest at the Princeton University Program in Judaic Studies. Dr. Mali is a member of the joint Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Heidelberg University research group “Thinking Rite: Towards Talmudo Mīmāṃsā.” He is also the founder and director of the Omek Hashetach Project for pre-military leadership academies; the founding editor of Beit Hayotzer, a periodical for Jerusalem tour guides; and the founder and director of a Jerusalem ethnic-music ensemble “Nigun Yerushalmi,” for which he is the lead flutist.