Professor Michael Fishbane (University of Chicago) delivered the 1990 Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies at the University of Washington: “This Kiss of God: Spiritual Death in Jewish Religious History”.
Lecture 1 (April 24, 1990), “Paths of Ascent to God in Jewish Spirituality”:
Lecture 2 (April 26, 1990), “The Martyr & the Mystic”:
Lecture 3 (April 30, 1990), “Rituals of Prayer and Sanctification”:
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