The Handbook of Jewish Meditation Practices: A Guide for Enriching the Sabbath and Other Days of Your Life
To nourish your spiritual self you need "rest" from your hectic life. This book shows you how to do it.
“Renew the soul and your perspective of daily life will completely change. It is simply a matter of taking time, slowing down, shifting mundane consciousness into realms of higher insight and giving yourself the gift of reflection and contemplation.”
—from the Introduction
While broad interest in Jewish meditation is a relatively new phenomenon, meditative practices have been deeply rooted in Judaism for thousands of years. Here, Rabbi David A. Cooper shows newcomers and experienced meditators alike how Jewish meditation can be an integral part of daily life, and can refresh us in our day-to-day encounters with ourselves, other people and in ritual, prayer, Torah study and our celebration of the Sabbath and other holy days.
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Book details
- Author
- David Cooper
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism › Rituals & Practice
Religion › Judaism - Topics
- Jewish spirituality · Sabbath observance · Judaism · mindfulness · contemplative practice · spiritual renewal · Jewish rituals
- ISBN-13
- 9781580231022 (Paperback)9781683363767 (Hardcover)
About the author
RABBI DAVID A. COOPER was a rabbi, mystic, and author who studied mysticism for more than thirty years. His books include Three Gates to Meditation Practice, The Handbook of Jewish Meditation Practices and Silence, Simplicity & Solitude.
Cooper was ordained by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi in 1993 and studied Kabbalah and Hasidism in the Old City of Jerusalem for over six years during the 1980s. He was initiated into Sufism by Pir Vilayat Khan, practiced Zen Buddhism with Roshi Bernie Glassman, and Tibetan Buddhism with Tsoknyi Rinpoche.
When not writing, Cooper and his wife Shoshana founded the Heart of Stillness Hermitage in Boulder, Colorado. His books draw on decades of immersion in Jewish, Sufi, Zen, and Tibetan contemplative traditions.