From Medicine to Mysticism: The Storied Life of the Hebrew Microcosm

She will trace the transformation of the late antique medical microcosm to the kabbalistic Primordial Man, or the kabbalistic tree of life iconic to Jewish mysticism. While the model of the microcosm initially served to organize the principles of anatomy, late antique and medieval writers reimagined the macrocosm as the divine. With this the human body became a model for both the cosmos and the divine, at the base of the Jewish mystical model.