ד"ר ליאור זקס-שמואלי

1. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, Taboo and Prohibitions in Castilian Kabbalah, Schocken-JTS Institute, 2024 [Hebrew].
2. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, Sacred Emotions: Fear of Sin in Early Hasidism, Stanford University Press (forthcoming 2025).
3. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, Sefer Toldot Adam by Joseph of Hamadan: A Critical Edition and Study, Ben Zevi Institute (forthcoming) [Hebrew]
4. Leore Sachs Shmueli, The Rationales of the Negative Commandments by Joseph of Hamdan: A Critical Edition and Study, The World Union of Jewish Studies Press (forthcoming) [Hebrew].

5. Andrea Gondos & Leore Sachs-Shmueli (eds.) The Life of the Soul: Jewish Perspectives on Reincarnation from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period (State University of New York Press 2024). 338 pages.

1. Leore Sachs- Shmueli, “‘His Limbs Flutter and Tremble Always in Fear of God’:  Emotional Scripts of Fear in Noam Elimelech,” Emotions in Jewish Mystical Tradition, Lawrence Fine, Joel Hecker & Ruth Kara Ivanov Kaniel (eds.) (The Littman Library: Liverpool: forthcoming 2024).
2. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, “Moral Books of Awe, and the Ambivalence towards Material Love: The Letter by Menahem Mendel of Vitebsk to the Community of Bieshka,” From Tiberia with Love, 3, Aubrey Glazer and Nechemia Polen (eds.) (Academic Studies Press: Boston 2024), 219-259.
3. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, “The Fear of the Feminine: Kabbalistic Theurgy of the Negative Commandments,” New Paths in Jewish and Religious Studies: Essays in Honor of Professor Elliot Wolfson, Glenn Dynner, Susannah Heschel, and Shaul Magid (eds.), (Purdue University Press, 2024), 307-324.
4. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, “Animal-Reincarnation, Slaughter, and its Socio-Mystical Significance in Bratslav Hasidism,” The Life of the Soul: Jewish Perspectives on Reincarnation from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period, Andrea Gondos & Leore Sachs-Shmueli (eds.) (SUNY 2024), 347-371.
5. Andrea Gondos & Leore Sachs-Shmueli, "Introduction," The Life of the Soul: Jewish Perspectives on Reincarnation from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period, Andrea Gondos & Leore Sachs-Shmueli (eds.) (SUNY, forthcoming, 2024): 1-24.
6. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, “Shagar’s Mystical Space: Moving between the Languages of Kabbalah, Hasidism, and Rav Kook,” The Light from within the Broken Tablets, Miriam Feldman Kaye & Hanoch Ben Pazi (eds) (Idra: 2024), 115-129. [Hebrew; translation of my article published in Religions 13 (1) (2022). 10]
7. Leore Sachs- Shmueli, “A Castilian Debate about the Aims and Limits of Theurgic Practice: Rationalizing Incest in the Zohar, the Writing of R. Joseph Hamadan and R. Moses De León,” in Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism, Jeremey Brown & Marc Herman (eds.), (Leiden: Brill, 2021): 208-228. https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004460942/BP000019.xml

Leore Sachs-Shmueli, "Reasons for the Commandments- Kabbalah," St. Andrews Encyclopedia of Theology (2024).

1. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, ""The Soul as a Cord: “Uncanny Compassion” and Compassionate Awe in Liqqutei amarim and Nefesh haḥayyim," Prooftexts (forthcoming).
2. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, "Defining Jewish Holiness in Sixteenth Century Kabbalah through Distant Reading: Sanctifying Bodily Practices vs. The Entirety of Proper Performance" The Journal of Jewish Ethics (forthcoming).
3. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, "The Zoharic Piqqudin in Cordovero's Ouvre: An Analysis of the Qedusha Commandment," Jewish Thought (forthcoming) [Hebrew].
4. Leore Sachs- Shmueli, "Becoming a Holy Man: The Ethno-Moralistic Shift and Angelology's Marginalization in Castilian Kabbalistic Intentions for Qedusha," Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy (forthcoming), 13405 words.
5. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, "Emotional Vocabularies in Hasidic Sermons: Divine Emotions and Human Moral Emotions in Hayim va- Hesed by Hayim of Amador," Shofar (forthcoming Nov. 2025).
6. Leore Sachs-Shmueli & Ariel Gross, "Sanctifying the Gaze: The Practice of Averting One's Eyes in Eliyahu de Vidas's Reshit Hokhmah," Journal of Jewish Studies 75 (2024): 313-336.
7. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, '"A Heart Crushed into a Thousand Pieces, yet Full of Joy": The Hybrid Emotional Ideal for Approaching Suffering and Grief in the Hasidic Commentary to the Zohar,' Journal of Modern Judaism Studies (2024): 1-27.
8. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, "Designing Sacred Time according to Sefer Yetsirah in Bnei Yissaschar and Hasidic Homiletics," Teudah (forthcoming) [Hebrew].
9. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, “Deciphering the Baal Shem Tov’s Legacy as Crafted by his Disciple Jacob Joseph Using Distant Reading Digital Tools,” EJJS 18 (2024): 1-28.
10. Leore Sachs- Shmueli, “Twentieth-Century Hasidic-Zionist Homiletics: The Case of Netivot Shalom by ‘the Rebbe Painter’, Avraham Ya‘akov Shapira of Drohobych,” Religions 2023, 14(5), 581; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14050581
11. Leore Sachs- Shmueli, “Plagues in the Service of God: Fear and Hope in the Hasidic Rhetoric of R. Tzvi Elimelech of Dynov”, JSQ 31 (2024): 287–304.
12. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, "Feminine Weeping and Emotional Expression in Hasidic Hagiography" Zion 90 (2024): 115-140 [Hebrew].
13. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, “The Theurgic Power of the Intellectual, Meditative, and Moralistic Engagement with Rationales for the Commandments: Safrin’s Otsar haḥayim”, RRJ 27 (2024): 1-24.
14. Leore Sachs-Shmueli & Roee Goldschmidt, “Hasidic Literature Concerning Rationales for the Commandments: Hasidism and Kabbalah in Their Cultural Context,” JQR  114, 1 (2024): 41–74.
15. Leore Sachs- Shmueli, “The discourse of awe in the traditions recorded in the name of the Baal Shem Tov in Sefer Degel Mahaneh Ephraim: A Distant Reading Leading to a Close Reading,” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities fqac070 (November 2022), https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac070 
16. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, "Books of Mussar and Awe: An Analysis of Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk's Epistle to the Biešankovičy Community in the Context of 18th and 19th Century Hasidic Thinkers' Pedagogical Guidance for the Study of Mussar Books," Jewish Studies [Hebrew] [forthcoming 2024]
17. Leore Sachs- Shmueli, “Chabad Discourse on Rationales for the Commandments: Derekh Mitsvotekha,” JJS lxxiv (Spring 2023): 117–139.
18. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, "Human-Animal Reincarnation and Animal Grief in Kabbalah," JJTP 31 (2023): 30–56.
19. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, “The Porous Boundaries of the Zohar in the Age of Print: A Zoharic Homily on the Sinew of the Thigh as a Signifier of Sexual Threat,” AJS Review 47 (2023): 368-391.
20. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, “The Crystallization of the Textual Layers of the Zoharic Exegesis on Burial Delay and its Reception in Manuscripts and Print,” [Hebrew], Daat 91 (2021): 297-304.
21. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, “Shagar’s Mystical Space: Moving between the Languages of Kabbalah, Hasidism, and Rav Kook,” Religions 13 (1) (2022). 10. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/1/10
22. Leore Sachs- Shmueli, “Maimonides' Rationalization of the Incest Taboo and its Reception in the 13th century Kabbalah and its Affinity to Aquinas,” Harvard Theological Review 114:3 (2021): 371-392. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/harvard-theological-review/article/abs/maimonidess-rationalization-of-the-incest-taboo-its-reception-in-thirteenthcentury-kabbalah-and-their-affinity-to-aquinas/9A40C59B42ECF2BDB07E441B74D284BB
23. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, “The Commandment of Qeduasha in the Zoharic Piqqudin: A Modular Digital Edition of the Zoharic Text and its Adaptations in Hasidic Literature,” Mahadurot: Modular Hebrew Digitally Rendered Texts 1 (2021)  http://mahadurot.com/Piqqudin/ComQedushah.  
24. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, Ruth Kara Ivanov Kaniel, and Iris Felix, “24 Secrets by Joseph Angelet: An Introduction and Annotated Critical Edition,” [Hebrew] Kabbalah 50 (2021): 193­-320.  http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9781933379913
25. Leore Sachs- Shmueli and Aviad Goldman, “The Theosophic Sanctification of the Family in Thirteenth- Century Spain: Kabbalistic and Halakhic Perspectives,” [Hebrew] Pe'amim: Studies in Oriental Jewry 165 (2021): 61-96. https://www.ybz.org.il/?CategoryID=186&ArticleID=8286#.YhInxepBy3B
26. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, “Shekhinah and the Revival of Feminine God Language,” Modern Judaism: A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience 39 (2019): 347-369. https://academic.oup.com/mj/article-abstract/39/3/347/5571523
27. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, “‘The Secret of Incest’ — Ms. Cambridge, Cambridge University Library Dd. 4.2.2,” Kabbalah 45 (2019): 49-78. 
28. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, “The Introduction to Sefer Toldot Adam,” Qovetz Al Yad 26 (2018): 47-76 [Hebrew]. https://www.magnespress.co.il/book/%D7%A7%D7%91%D7%A5_%D7%A2%D7%9C_%D7%99%D7%93-4172
29. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, “The Reception of the Dual Channels Concept in Cordovero’s Doctrine of Evil,” Kabbalah 36 (2017): 117–158 [Hebrew].
30. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, “’I Arouse the Shekhina’: A Psychoanalytic Study of Anxiety and Desire of the Kabbalah in Relation to the Object of Taboo,” Kabbalah 35 (2016):  227-266 [Hebrew].
31. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, “Miriam as a Feminine Role Model in Zohar Literature,” Kabbalah 33 (2015): 183­–210 [Hebrew].
32. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, “R. Joseph of Hamadan’s Commentary to the Ten Sefirot,” Kabbalah 32 (2014):  227­-321 [Hebrew].
33. Leore Sachs-Shmueli, “Seder Gan Eden – Critical Edition and Study (with annotations by Gershom Scholem),” Kabbalah 28 (2012): 191-299 [Hebrew].