Discovering Jewish Meditation (2nd Edition)
Nan Fink Gefen
(Author)
Description
Product Details
| Publisher | Jewish Lights Publishing |
| Publish Date | September 01, 2011 |
| Pages | 200 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781580234627 |
| Dimensions | 8.9 X 6.0 X 0.7 inches | 0.4 pounds |
About the Author
Nan Fink Gefen, PhD, is a teacher of Jewish meditation, a writer and an editor. She has taught Jewish meditation to hundreds of students around the country. For six years, she directed a program to train Jewish meditation teachers at Chochmat HaLev, a center of Jewish meditation in the San Francisco Bay Area.
She is a contributor to Meditation from the Heart of Judaism: Today's Teachers Share Their Practices, Techniques, and Faith (Jewish Lights), and author of Stranger in the Midst: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery (Basic Books). She cofounded Tikkun magazine in 1985, and she is the cofounding editor of Persimmon Tree: An Online Magazine of the Arts.
Reviews
"Meditation lies at the very core of the Jewish spiritual experience. This book will take you there gently, wisely, helpfully."
-Jonathan Omer-Man, founder, Metivta, A Center for Contemplative Judaism
"A very low threshold introduction and a very rewarding first step into the place of silence in the sacred."
-Lawrence Kushner, author, I'm God; You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego and other books
"Provides, in a sweet and spacious voice, a simple, straightforward guide for beginning a Jewish meditation practice."
-Sylvia Boorstein, author, It's Easier Than You Think and other books
"Guides readers wisely, and with great care. This is the guide to Jewish meditation that I have been searching for."
-Vanessa L. Ochs, author, The Jewish Dream Book: The Key to Opening the Inner Meaning of Your Dreams and other books; Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia
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