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Dr Jonathan Garb is a lecturer in the department of Jewish Thought in the Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was born in South Africa in 1967 and immigrated to Israel in 1973. He studied in several Yeshivas, including Knesset Beit Aharon, then in Haifa,Knesset Israel-Hevron in Jerusalem. After writing a M.A thesis on Yosef Ibn Sayyah at the Hebrew University He wrote his PHD on Power and Intention in Kabbalah in the years 1998-2000 under the supervision of Professor Moshe Idel. . This work was published in Hebrew by Magnes Press in 2005 as Manifestations of Power in Jewish Mysticism.