Alan Brill
@kavvanah.bsky.social
Professor at Seton Hall, Interfaith, Jewish Thought, Comparative Theology, Modern Orthodoxy, and Kabbalah. Forthcoming Book: A Jewish Trinity: Contemporary Christian Theology Through Jewish Eyes (Fortress:2025) --find me on my blog kavvanah.blog
Kabbalah offers some thinkers a conceptual model for understanding the world as informational. I look at four diverse kabbalistic approaches to artificial intelligence. www.academia.edu/144650752/Th...
The World is Informational: Kabbalah and AI
In the new global age of AI, the world is informational. For some thinkers, Kabbalah offers conceptual models for understanding the operation of this new informational world. I will look at four diver...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Kabbalah offers some thinkers a conceptual model for understanding the world as informational. I look at four diverse kabbalistic approaches to artificial intelligence. www.academia.edu/144650752/Th...
My new book just arrived. A nice way to start the year. Shanah Tovah www.amazon.com/Jewish-Trini...
September 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
My new book just arrived. A nice way to start the year. Shanah Tovah www.amazon.com/Jewish-Trini...
A classic that once shaped the attitude of American Jews toward Christianity and other religions. Anything Christians believe, Judaism holds the opposite. Judaism is sui generis. It makes actual interfaith discussions quite difficult. We have come a long way. kavvanah.blog/2025/07/20/w...
Where Judaism Differed, Abba Hillel Silver
Before I continue my series on Rabbi Eliezer Melamed and post his views of Christianity and other religions, I will take a digression and present on the classic book by Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, Wh…
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July 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A classic that once shaped the attitude of American Jews toward Christianity and other religions. Anything Christians believe, Judaism holds the opposite. Judaism is sui generis. It makes actual interfaith discussions quite difficult. We have come a long way. kavvanah.blog/2025/07/20/w...
There is a divine spark in all religions; all are needed for spiritual elevation. Other religions were sent divine inspiration & miracles, & all religions worship the true Supreme God kavvanah.blog/2025/06/30/r...
Rabbi Melamed on the Divine Spark in other religions
Continuing my discussion about Rabbi Melamed on Other Religions. I started with his statements on Hinduism and will now look at his broader premises- see “The Divine Spark among Other Religions” a…
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June 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
There is a divine spark in all religions; all are needed for spiritual elevation. Other religions were sent divine inspiration & miracles, & all religions worship the true Supreme God kavvanah.blog/2025/06/30/r...
New Blog Post kavvanah.blog/2025/06/09/e...
Expressive Relgious Zionism: An Interview with Shlomo Fischer
How can you have Religious Zionists who write poetry and music as a religious quest but who also want to override government decisions? How can you have some who want meditation, spirituality, and …
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June 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
New Blog Post kavvanah.blog/2025/06/09/e...
I start blogging again starting tomorrow, and have weekly posts already lined up. Stay Tuned
June 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I start blogging again starting tomorrow, and have weekly posts already lined up. Stay Tuned
My Annual Purim Matanot LeEvyonim appeal for poor Jewish families in India. For those looking to give Matanot Le'evyonim to a worthy cause. These needy families receive staples such as lentils and flour. Help them reach their goal.------ rootfunding.com/campaigns/in...
Matanot Le'evyonim for poor Jewish Families in India, Purim 2025
YOU can make a poor Jewish family in India enjoy their Purim! Like in the previous 11 years, I am collecting donations for matanot le'evyonim ...
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March 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
My Annual Purim Matanot LeEvyonim appeal for poor Jewish families in India. For those looking to give Matanot Le'evyonim to a worthy cause. These needy families receive staples such as lentils and flour. Help them reach their goal.------ rootfunding.com/campaigns/in...
My friend Rabbi Yakov Nagen on Interfaith kavvanah.blog/2025/01/22/r...
Rabbi Dr. Yakov Nagen on Interfaith
My friend, colleague, and fellow interfaith traveler Rabbi Dr. Yakov Nagen recently had his book “His Name is One” – Healing the Relationship between Judaism and World Religions (Maggid Press, 2024…
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January 23, 2025 at 12:26 AM
My friend Rabbi Yakov Nagen on Interfaith kavvanah.blog/2025/01/22/r...
Nice review of my edited volume of Rabbi Shagar essays by Todd Berman in Tradition. Berman used one of Shagar's essays on Chanukah to focus the review. I am glad he focused on the actual thought of Rav Shagar and not my long introduction (Intro for free in review) traditiononline.org/review-livin...
REVIEW: Living Time
Todd Berman uses an essay on Hanukka presented in a new English volume on the Jewish holidays to understand the challenging philosophy of R. Shimon Gershon Rosenberg (Shagar). The Hanukka lights funct...
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December 24, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Nice review of my edited volume of Rabbi Shagar essays by Todd Berman in Tradition. Berman used one of Shagar's essays on Chanukah to focus the review. I am glad he focused on the actual thought of Rav Shagar and not my long introduction (Intro for free in review) traditiononline.org/review-livin...
Nice review of Simon Critchley's On Mysticism by Rowen Williams www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
The meaning of ecstasy
Simon Critchley’s On Mysticism shows how the language of religious rapture can help us teach us how to live.
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December 5, 2024 at 5:24 AM
Nice review of Simon Critchley's On Mysticism by Rowen Williams www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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November 28, 2024 at 4:10 AM
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For those interested in Kabbalah, great interview with Jeremy Tibbetts about the new Rashash siddur of Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Morgenstern. He gives more information about performing Lurianic Kavvanot than is available anywhere else. The interview is technical, sorry. kavvanah.blog/2024/11/23/s...
Siddur Torat Chacham, a siddur Rashash by R. Yitzchak Meir Morgenstern
What are the Lurianic Kabbalistic intentions? How do they work and how does one read the baroque pictorial notations of a Lurianic siddur? This interview may be one of the first explanations in Eng…
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November 24, 2024 at 2:42 PM
For those interested in Kabbalah, great interview with Jeremy Tibbetts about the new Rashash siddur of Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Morgenstern. He gives more information about performing Lurianic Kavvanot than is available anywhere else. The interview is technical, sorry. kavvanah.blog/2024/11/23/s...
My decision to join Bluesky was pushed because WordPress no longer automatically posts to X/Twitter. WordPress also jumped ship. I resumed posting on my blog which was started 15 years ago in 2009 after an almost 2-year hiatus. I will start posting my blog posts here
November 24, 2024 at 2:32 PM
My decision to join Bluesky was pushed because WordPress no longer automatically posts to X/Twitter. WordPress also jumped ship. I resumed posting on my blog which was started 15 years ago in 2009 after an almost 2-year hiatus. I will start posting my blog posts here
PSA: My book Judaism and Other Religions (2010) is on sale as a paperback for $15.99 until November 30th. link.springer.com/book/10.1057...
Judaism and Other Religions
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November 20, 2024 at 7:54 PM
PSA: My book Judaism and Other Religions (2010) is on sale as a paperback for $15.99 until November 30th. link.springer.com/book/10.1057...
Reposted by Alan Brill
The Challenge of Catholic-Jewish Theological Dialogue, edited by myself, Alan Brill, and Matthew Levering, is the first book to engage the thought of Aquinas and Augustine on law in the context of Catholic-Jewish dialogue. Forthcoming from CUA Press.
November 19, 2024 at 3:04 AM
The Challenge of Catholic-Jewish Theological Dialogue, edited by myself, Alan Brill, and Matthew Levering, is the first book to engage the thought of Aquinas and Augustine on law in the context of Catholic-Jewish dialogue. Forthcoming from CUA Press.
Professor Ithamar Gruenwald a”h has passed away, Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University. He was my first professor of Jewish mysticism and Zohar. His method was old-school comparative religion of ritual & myth, symbol & sacrifice, with a theological edge. 1/2
November 18, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Professor Ithamar Gruenwald a”h has passed away, Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University. He was my first professor of Jewish mysticism and Zohar. His method was old-school comparative religion of ritual & myth, symbol & sacrifice, with a theological edge. 1/2
PSA- Azariah de Rossi's Meirat Eynaim (Light of the Eyes) in English is on sale for $36 instead of the usual $138. Classic Jewish Renaissance Humanist text (860 pages) www.amazon.com/Light-Eyes-Y...
November 17, 2024 at 2:28 PM
PSA- Azariah de Rossi's Meirat Eynaim (Light of the Eyes) in English is on sale for $36 instead of the usual $138. Classic Jewish Renaissance Humanist text (860 pages) www.amazon.com/Light-Eyes-Y...