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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
