Your body is the place where heaven and earth meet.
The greatest spiritual achievement is not transcending the body but joining body and spirit together. But to do this, you must break through assumptions that draw boundaries around the Infinite and wake up to the body as the site of holiness itself.
This groundbreaking book is the first comprehensive treatment of the body in Jewish spiritual practice and an essential guide to the sacred. With meditation practices, physical exercises, visualizations, and sacred text, you will learn how to experience the presence of the Divine in, and through, your body. And by cultivating an embodied spiritual practice, you will transform everyday activities--eating, walking, breathing, washing--into moments of deep spiritual realization, uniting sacred and sensual, mystical and mundane.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
I've never reviewed anything before:
I have never reviewed anything before, but for this book I will. I found this book to be extremely helpful. My therapist and I are using it to deal with some difficult issues, and each chapter makes the discussion so much easier. I'm looking at my life, my body and my health with new eyes.
Wherever We Let Him In:
A beautifully-written perspective on the holiness of whole-ness. As a martial artist and teacher of the arts, as well as a Torah-committed Jew, I am inspired by the author's call to see beyond the body-mind schism and embrace a view that transcends East vs. West. Since there is One Creator, it stands to reason and faith that each of us, body-mind-soul, should be testament to His Oneness. I read this book joyfully and often pick it up and open to random sections to read and reexperience that joy. A treasure.
Body and Mind in Judaism:
For years I have been involved in physical things, tai chi, jogging, basketball, baseball, and then as I got into more "spiritual things" the dichotomy emerged; mind and body are two oppossing forces. Try as we may many taught, we must overcome the body to reach the spiritual. My interest in Judaism as I matured caused me to explore that in fact there are many physical pathways to Jewish spiritual practices. Yet I never could find an explanantion that satisfied me. Well this book does so. First off the... more info
