Fields of interests

My primary research interest is medieval kabbalah, what it is, what questions are asked and for what purpose, and how we can better understand its various trends.

My research lies at the crossroads between medieval kabbalah and various other disciplines – spanning from animal-human studies, plant thinking and the environmental humanities to political thought and messianism. This is to be expected given that the foundation of my scholarship began with a focus on the oeuvre of late thirteenth century kabbalist, Rabbi Jospeh ben Shalom Ashkenazi, truly a tour de force of multidisciplinary thought; a kabbalistic system enmeshed with philosophy, medicine and anatomy, zoology, astrology, magic and more. Moreover, Ashkenazi’s thought pays attention to the inanimate, flora and fauna and entangles these with humanity.