This comprehensive introduction to a time-honored spiritual practice answers common questions about the nature and history of Jewish meditation, shows beginners how to start their practice and gives instructions for core Jewish meditative practices.
This comprehensive introduction to a time-honored spiritual practice answers common questions about the nature and history of Jewish meditation, shows beginners how to start their practice and gives instructions for core Jewish meditative practices.
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.
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Introduction to the Second Edition vii Acknowledgments xiv Part One: The Practice of Jewish Meditation 1. What Is Jewish Meditation? 3 2. The Promise of Jewish Meditation 17 3. States of Consciousness 29 4. Forms of Jewish Meditation 41 5. Getting Started 57 Part Two: The Core Meditations 6. Focused Meditations 81 * Hineini Meditation 81 * Shalom Meditation 85 * Divine Light Meditation 88 * Chesed Meditation 91 * Thankfulness Meditation 94 * Neshamah Meditation 97 * Sh'ma Meditation 100 * Yod-Hay-Vav-Hay Meditation 103 7. Awareness Meditations 109 * Gam Zeh Kadosh Meditation 109 * Walking Meditation 113 8. Emptiness Meditations 117 * Ayin Breath Meditation 117 * Space-between-the-Letters Meditation 120 * Beyond-the-Self Meditation 123 Part Three: A Meditative Life 9. Challenges of a Meditative Life 129 10. Meditation and Jewish Spiritual Practice 151 11. A Morning Meditative Prayer Practice 169 Jewish Meditation Resource Guide for Beginning Meditators 173
Introduction to the Second Edition vii Acknowledgments xiv Part One: The Practice of Jewish Meditation 1. What Is Jewish Meditation? 3 2. The Promise of Jewish Meditation 17 3. States of Consciousness 29 4. Forms of Jewish Meditation 41 5. Getting Started 57 Part Two: The Core Meditations 6. Focused Meditations 81 * Hineini Meditation 81 * Shalom Meditation 85 * Divine Light Meditation 88 * Chesed Meditation 91 * Thankfulness Meditation 94 * Neshamah Meditation 97 * Sh'ma Meditation 100 * Yod-Hay-Vav-Hay Meditation 103 7. Awareness Meditations 109 * Gam Zeh Kadosh Meditation 109 * Walking Meditation 113 8. Emptiness Meditations 117 * Ayin Breath Meditation 117 * Space-between-the-Letters Meditation 120 * Beyond-the-Self Meditation 123 Part Three: A Meditative Life 9. Challenges of a Meditative Life 129 10. Meditation and Jewish Spiritual Practice 151 11. A Morning Meditative Prayer Practice 169 Jewish Meditation Resource Guide for Beginning Meditators 173
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