Christianity through a Kabbalistic Lens: Tzvi Luboshitz

Thursday, September 18th 2025, 12:45pm
GTU Dinner Board Room, 2400 Ridge Road Berkeley, CA 94709

This lecture deals with the interreligious dialogue in the writings of Rabbi Moshe David Valle. Valle showed a keen interest in Catholic Christianity. By adopting an 'anthropological lens,' he addresses various aspects of Christianity: rituals, architecture, clothing, and food, seeking to elucidate them from a Kabbalistic perspective. In my lecture, I attempt to understand this somewhat bizarre endeavor as an early example of 'reverse anthropology'—an anthropological approach that examines indigenous perspectives on Western culture from the indigenous viewpoint.

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