Sat, May 24
|Edmonton
Speaker: Dr. Sean Hannan - Imaging and Imitating God
Come and join us on Shabbat, May 24, 2025 for a special class after Shacharit Services at 11:00 am to hear from Dr. Sean Hannan. This is an interesting lecture to prepare us for the upcoming holiday of Shavuot.
Time & Location
May 24, 2025, 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Edmonton, 12313 105 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T5N 0Y5, Canada
About the event
IMAGING AND IMITATING GOD
In the late medieval and early modern eras, Jewish and Christian authors agreed that we were all created in the image of God. And if we bear the divine likeness within ourselves, then we ought to burnish that likeness by imitating God in our lives. But not everyone agreed on what it meant to 'image' or 'imitate' the divine. For kabbalistically informed authors like Moshe Cordovero, it might mean living virtuously by replicating God's mercy. For Christian mystics like Meister Eckhart, it might mean becoming nothing, just as God is 'no-thing' to the mystic. And for Italian Renaissance Humanists like Pico della Mirandola, it might mean having the freedom to choose to become whatever we want to become, mimicking the omnipotence by which God can do whatever God wills.
Join us at TBO for a (shorter) Shabbat service followed by a fascinating lecture aimed at exploring…