Jewish Meditation: A Practical GuideKaplan shows that meditation is consistent with traditional Jewish thought and practice. The book presents a variety of meditative techniques to help make the reader a better person, and develop a closer relationship to God. |
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Adonoy alef Amidah ARYEH KAPLAN aware Baal Shem Tov beauty become begin biblical verse black fire body Bratslav bring a person chapter Chasidic close color commandments concentration concept consciousness conversation with God created creation denotes difficult discipline discussed earlier Divine ence energy enhance entire essence existence experienced extraneous thoughts feel final heh focus form of meditation God's hand Hebrew word higher Holy images immanence important involved Israel Jewish meditation Jewish mysticism Jews Judaism Kabbalah Kabbalists kavanah letters look mantra meditation master means medi meditative experience meditative techniques method mind's eye mishnah mundane Musar object of contemplation one's paragraph phrase physical practice prayer problem prophet Rabbi Nachman realize recite repeated Ribbono shel Olam ruach seen Sefer Yetzirah sense Shekhinah Shema significant soul speak synesthesia Talmud teaching Tetragrammaton texts thing tion Torah type of meditation vision worship YHVH Zohar