Hellner-Eshed, Melila

Melila Hellner-Eshed is a professor of Jewish mysticism in the Department ofJewish Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, as well as a senior research fellowat the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. She is a member of the facultyof the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and is active in Sulha, an Israeli-Palestinianreconciliation project. She is the author of A River Flows from Eden: TheLanguage of Mystical Experience in the Zohar.