May 31, 2010
Speaker: Dr. Lawrence Fine, Irene Kaplan
Lewiant Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion at
Mount Holyoke College
Location: Pearlstone Conference and Retreat
Center; Reisterstown, MD
In the seventeenth century, a kabbalistic community developed in
Jerusalem, known as Bet El. Inspired by Lurianic mysticism, the Bet
El community fashioned an intimate group of individuals who
believed that they should love one another as if they were a single
organism.
The Lenell G. Ammerman Memorial Study Retreat