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December 11, 2022

A Deep River Rises: Jewish Law, Theology, and Environmental Ethics

Rabbi Dr. Ariel Evan Mayse

Rabbi Dr. Ariel Evan Mayse

Ariel Evan Mayse joined the faculty of Stanford University in 2017 as an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies and serves as the rabbi-in-residence at Atiq: Jewish Maker Institute (atiqmakers.org).

Previously he was the Director of Jewish Studies and Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts. Mayse holds a Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from Harvard University and rabbinic ordination from Beit Midrash Har’el in Israel.

His most recent publications include Speaking Infinities: God and Language in the Teachings for Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritsh (University of Pennsylvania, 2020); Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community and Life in the Modern World (Brandeis University Press, 2020), edited with Sam Berrin Shonkoff, and The Language of Truth in the Mother Tongue (Magnes Press, 2020, in Hebrew).

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Rabbi Dr. Ariel Evan Mayse delivers the 2022 Renee and Alexander Bohm Memorial Lecture, graciously sponsored by their grandchildren. This year’s topic is “As a Deep River Rises: Jewish Law, Theology, and Environmental Ethics.