Dovber Pinson

Meditation and Judaism

Exploring the Jewish Meditative Paths

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Meditation and Judaism is a comprehensive work on Jewish meditation, encompassing the entire spectrum of Jewish thought_from the early Kabbalists to the modern Chassidic and Mussar masters, the sages of the Talmud, to the modern philosophers. Both a scholarly, in-depth study of meditative practices, and a practical, easy to follow guide, Meditation and Judaism is for anyone interested in meditating the Jewish way.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780765700070
• ISBN-10: 0765700077
• Artikelnr.: 22250906

Autorenporträt

DovBer Pinson is a world-renowned scholar, thinker, teacher, and author. His books include Reincarnation and Judaism, Inner Rhythms, and Toward the Infinite. Presently he is Dean of the Iyyun Institute in Brooklyn.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Meditation . . . A Jewish Concept? Chapter 2 Defining Meditation
Chapter 3 Extraordinary Phenomena Encountered Through Meditation Chapter 4
Preparing for the Meditative Session Chapter 5 A Classification of Jewish
Meditations Chapter 6 Meditation and the Five Senses Chapter 7 The Four Who
Encountered the Orchard: The Spiritual Trappings of Advanced Meditations
Chapter 8 The Spirituality of the Torah as It Relates to Meditation Chapter
9 Intellectual Analytical Meditation Chapter 10 Divine Ecstasy: Achieving
the State of No Self-Awareness Chapter 11 The Ayin of Jewish Meditation
Versus the Nothingness in Other Meditations Chapter 12 Character
Refinement-Meditating to Achieve a Better Self Chapter 13 Eight Steps to
Meditation