I am especially proud of this recent publication as it contributes to the relatively untapped area of kabbalah in North Africa. This is an area in which I have obtained an expertise over the past few years, one which requires more scholarly attention and I plan to produce more research in the near future. Currently, I am working on adapting my recent lecture into a paper - ‘An Ambivalent Encounter with Kabbalah in Twentieth-Century Maghreb: The Case of R. Joseph Messas’ (January 3-4, The Yad Ben Tzvi Institute). In the paper, I position Messas and his supposed ambivalence towards kabbalah as part of a trend I have identified among several prominent North African Jewish thinkers in the Early Modern period.