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Dr. Biti Roi

Dr. Biti Roi is a research fellow of the Kogod Research Center of Contemporary Jewish Thought at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. She holds a Ph.D. from Bar Ilan University and is a lecturer in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University and the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem, where she teaches Kabbalah and Hasidism. Her book, Love of Shekhina: Mysticism and Poetics in Tiqqunei ha-Zohar, was awarded the Matanel World Union of Jewish Studies Prize for the best book in Jewish Studies.


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Articles by Dr. Biti Roi

In Death, ‘Life’

The Zohar portrays Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai's death not as a separation, but as a joyous, revelatory (and fiery) union with the divine.

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