Jewish Meditation Practices for Everyday Life: Awakening Your Heart, Connecting with God
At last, a fresh take of meditation that draws on life experience and living life with greater clarity rather than the traditional method of rigorous study.
Based on twenty-five years of bringing meaningful spiritual practice to the Jewish community, well-known mediation teacher and practitioner Rabbi Jeff Roth presents Jewish contemplative techniques that foster the development of a heart of wisdom and compassion. This contemporary approach to meditation--accessible to both beginners and experts alike--focuses on using the distilled wisdom of Buddhism and Judaism as a way to learn from life experiences. By combining these two traditions, he presents a model that allows westerners--both Jews and non-Jews--to embrace timeless Eastern teachings without sacrificing their birth traditions.
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Book details
- Author
- Jeff Roth
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism › Rituals & Practice
Religion › Prayerbooks › Jewish - Topics
- contemplative practice · Judaism · Buddhism and Judaism · spiritual awakening · mindfulness · heart of wisdom and compassion
- ISBN-13
- 9781580233972 (Paperback)9781683361442 (Hardcover)
About the author
RABBI JEFF ROTH holds doctoral and master’s degrees from the Graduate Theological Foundation, Columbia University, and Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and was ordained by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. His recent books include Me, Myself and God: A Theology of Mindfulness and Jewish Meditation Practices for Everyday Life.
Roth co-founded Elat Chayyim, the Jewish Spiritual Retreat Center, where he served as Executive Director and Spiritual Director for thirteen years. He is the founder and Director of the Awakened Heart Project for Contemplative Judaism.
Roth is a meditation practitioner, teacher, and facilitator of Jewish retreats, work that informs his writing on contemplative Judaism and mindfulness.
Jeff lives with his family in the Hudson River Valley of New York.