“Finding God in the Material World” with Daniel Matt (Graduate Theological Union – Berkeley). How can God be encountered in our daily life? Dr. Matt will explore this question with us by teaching passages from Kabbalah and Hasidism on the nature of God, the act of Creation, and the challenge of discovering God in the material world.

Daniel Matt is a scholar of Kabbalah and the Zohar. Among his books are: The Essential Kabbalah (translated into seven languages), God and the Big Bang, and his 9-volume, annotated translation of the Zohar (The Zohar: Pritzker Edition), which has been hailed as “a monumental contribution to the history of Jewish thought.” In 2022, Daniel’s biography of Elijah the Prophet was published in Yale’s series Jewish Lives: Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation. This book was awarded the inaugural Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Book Prize, established by Yeshiva University. Daniel lives in Berkeley and currently teaches Zohar online (danielcmatt.com).