Discovering Jewish Meditation (2nd Edition): Instruction & Guidance for Learning an Ancient Spiritual Practice
A breakthrough "how to meditate" guide!
"Jewish meditation is a practice that can sustain you and deepen your connection to the Divine over the course of your lifetime. Seekers throughout history have practiced it and reaped its rewards, and today many people are making it a significant part of their everyday spiritual practice."
—from the Introduction
A supportive and wise guide that is an absolute must for anyone who wants to learn Jewish meditation or improve their practice—now updated and expanded. Nan Fink Gefen teaches you how to meditate on your own, and starts you on the path to a deeper connection with the Divine and to greater insight about your own life. Whatever your level of understanding, she gives you the tools and support you need to discover the transformative power of meditation. This most comprehensive introduction to a time-honored spiritual practice:
- Answers commonly asked questions about the nature and history of Jewish meditation, and examines how it differs from other meditative practices
- Shows beginners how to start their practice, including where and how to do it
- Gives step-by-step instructions for meditations that are at the core of Jewish meditative practice
- Explains the challenges and rewards of a Jewish meditative practice
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Book details
- Author
- Nan Fink Gefen
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism
Religion › Spirituality - ISBN-13
- 9781580234627 (Paperback)9781683360308 (Hardcover)
About the author
NAN FINK GEFEN, PhD, co-founded Tikkun magazine in the mid-1980s and has taught hundreds of students nationally as a writer, editor, and teacher of Jewish meditation. Her recent books include Clear Lake: A Novel, Discovering Jewish Meditation and Stranger in the Midst: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery.
Clear Lake received the IndieFab Gold Award for general fiction. Gefen also holds a doctorate and worked for fifteen years as a psychotherapist before her writing career.
When she’s not writing, Gefen directs teacher-training programs and teaches Jewish meditation, including work she developed at Chochmat HaLev, a center she helped establish in Berkeley. In 2007 she founded Persimmon Tree: An Online Magazine of the Arts by Women Over Sixty.
Nan lives in Berkeley, California.