The Way of the Elders: Traditional Talmud Study as Jewish Meditation Rabbi Zecharyah Tzvi Goldman Price: $2.50
18 Pages - Book is sent electronically via email. All files are in PDF format. (Free Adobe Reader software is available HERE).

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"This essay makes an important contribution to the kind of analysis which Judaism desperately needs. What Rabbi Goldman endeavors to do is to expose in depth the spiritual reality made available by the essential practices of Jewish tradition. This effort moves in the direction of 'Path Philosophy' which Eastern mystical traditions have always presented themselves, through which non practitioners are drawn to particular meditative paths."

— Charles (Yishaya) Vernoff Ph.d  
Professor of Religion Cornell College 

The most important spiritual work needed in this generation is making bridges between traditional Jewish learning and the cutting edge of Jewish meditation and transformative paths. The primary text of Jewish oral traditions is the voluminous Talmud. The most transformative paths in Judaism are the mystical and meditative traditions. There are very few scholars and teachers who are making bridges between the two. Along comes today Rabbi Zecharyah Tzvi Goldman who is making this great leap for contemporary Judaism in presenting the profound spiritual, transformative and mystical teachings embedded within Talmudic traditions. His new work 'The Way of Elders' is a profound attempt to show the study of Talmud as a spiritual experience. Rabbi Goldman's work is a real paradigm shift in the study of Talmud; scholars and lay seekers will benefit greatly from this refreshing new approach in the study of classic Jewish texts.

— Rabbi Eliahu Klein
Author of Kabbalah of Creation: Isaac Luria's Earlier Mysticism
and Meetings With Remarkable Souls: Legends of the Baal Shem Tov.
Visting Scholar at Oxford Jewish Study Centre.

This work is an original and fascinating exploration of a fifteen hundred year old method of Jewish meditation that is perceived within the Jewish mystical tradition as fundamental to one’s consciousness development. The author describes in detail the method of this meditation, its unique nature, the mechanisms that make it effective, obstacles along the path and the numerous benefits that one attains in the process of consistent practice. This work and this method is for every Jewish person man and woman regardless of their background in Judaism or skills in Hebrew. This work is a contemporary, passionate, informed and poetic description of an accessible Talmudic mysticism that talks to the spiritual seeker of today. You do not understand what Talmud study is until you have read this work.
 

	Sacred Soundbites: Simple Wisdom Teachings of the Jewish Tradition Rabbi Zecharyah Tzvi Goldman Price: $1.00
11 Pages - Book is sent electronically via email. All files are in PDF format. (Free Adobe Reader software is available HERE).

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