Valley Beit Midrash

A virtual event presentation by Rabbi Dr. Alan Brill

EVENT CO-SPONSORED BY: BMH-BJ

Please note event times are listed in PST

ABOUT THE EVENT:

The 21st-century Kabbalistic approaches to AI offer optimistic utopian approaches based on the writings of Sefer Yetzirah and Rabbi Isaac Luria. Secular innovators of AI at MIT who see the world as informational and AI as creativity, authors in Jewish thought who see the world as the Lurianic network, and rabbis who treat the new informational era as the unfolding of the divine mind and even a messianic fulfillment. 

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Rabbi Prof. Alan Brill is the Cooperman/Ross Chair for Jewish-Christian Studies at Seton Hall University. Brill is an expert on Jewish thought and interfaith relations. He is the author of many books including Judaism and World Religions: Christianity, Islam, and Eastern Religions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Judaism and Other Religions: Models of Understanding (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Brill received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh in India. He was a keynote speaker at the R-20 conference held in Indonesia, This research produced his recent volume Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish Hindu Encounter (Lexington Books, 2019). His recently published book is A Jewish Trinity: Contemporary Christian Theology Through Jewish Eyes (Fortress Press, 2025).