Tamar Elad-Appelbaum

Dr Biti Roi

Dr. Biti Roi is an Israeli scholar of Kabbala, Chasidut, and Jewish philosophy, and a senior research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. She has taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion University in the Negev. Her research focuses on the Zohar, kabbalistic myth, and the relationship between Jewish mysticism, emotion, and poetics. She is the author of Love of the Shekhina: Mysticism and Poetics in Tiqqunei ha-Zohar, an award-winning study of kabbalistic literature.

Rabbi Dr Zvi Leshem

Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem is the former Director of the Gershom Scholem Collection for Research in Kabbala and Hasidism at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. He has held senior roles in Torah education and served as a community rabbi. His academic work focused on Jewish mysticism, with particular emphasis on the teachings of the Piaseczner Rebbe and Rebbe Nachman of Breslov.

Devori Nussbaum

Devori Nussbaum is an integrative psychotherapist trained in a wide range of healing modalities. Alongside her therapeutic work, she is passionate about teaching Chasidut in an accessible and embodied way, helping people experience these teachings not just as ideas but as a living description of reality. . Learn more at 40mystics.com/Devori-Nussbaum.

Rabbi Simon Jacobson

Rabbi Simon Jacobson the founder of The Meaningful Life Center and author of the best selling book: Toward a Meaningful Life. He worked closely with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, leading the team that transcribed his talks by memory and is the publisher of the Algemeiner Journal. Learn more at 40mystics.com/Simon-Jacobson.

Tamar Elad-Appelbaum

Tamar Elad-Appelbaum is the Director of the Rabbanut Yisraelit Network and Co-Director of the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Ritual Center. Her work focuses on renewing Jewish spiritual and communal life in Israel while promoting human dignity and in 2010, The Forward named her one of the five most influential female religious leaders in Israel. Learn more at 40mystics.com/Tamar-Elad-Appelbaum [40mystics.com/Tamar-Appelbaum].