Renewing the Covenant: A Kabbalistic Guide to Jewish SpiritualitySimon and Schuster, 1 Mar 1999 - 272 sayfa A guide to how meditations and principles from the Kabbalah can be used to profoundly renew spiritual practice. - Reveals transformational meditations and visualization exercises based on the profoundest truths concealed in the Kabbalah. The covenant that bound God to the Patriarchs in a special relationship of obligation and empowerment was renewed by God with Israel at Sinai and Moab. Each of these three Jewish covenants can be associated with a particular spiritual practice: the Patriarchal Covenant with Father Isaac's practice of meditation; The Sinai Covenant of Holiness with the observance of the Sabbath required in its Ten Commandments, and the Moab Covenant of Love, comprising the entire Mosaic Torah, with the practice of prayer instituted there. In Renewing the Covenant, Leonora Leet shows how this ladder of increasingly demanding and potent covenantal practices can enable one to ascend to ever higher levels of mystical Judaism. At this threshold of a new millennium, increasing numbers of people are seeking a more direct connection with the Divine. To aid such a process, Renewing the Covenant provides new paths for entering the treasurehouse of Jewish spirituality and achieving higher consciousness, paths that can deepen the devotions of both nonobservant and traditionally observant Jews. This process of covenant renewal begins with effective kabbalistic techniques of meditation combining mantra with visualization, proceeds through the return to a reconstructed Sinai Sabbath, and arrives at the culminating practice of ritual prayer whose performance can fulfill the kabbalistic purpose of creation. When undertaken in the steps laid out by Dr. Leet, this process can help many to discover forms of spiritual practice precisely tailored for the modern world, as well as a new appreciation for the rich spiritual heritage of Judaism. |
İçindekiler
40 Beginning the Path of Jewish | |
Basic Concepts of the Kabbalah | |
Combining the Practice of Meditation with Prayer | |
A Kabbalistic Attunement | |
The Master Meditation | |
The Sinai Sabbath and the Covenant of Holiness 95 | |
Prayer and the Moabite 138 New Covenant of Love | |
Appendix The Biblical Power Word Vehayah | |
Endnotes | |
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Renewing the Covenant: A Kabbalistic Guide to Jewish Spirituality Leonora Leet Sınırlı önizleme - 1999 |
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