Climbing Jacob's Ladder - Alan Morinis
One Man's Journey to Rediscover a Jewish Spiritual Tradition
KORTE INHOUD
“A compelling portrait of the relationship between a student and a teacher,” this spiritual memoir “raises important questions about the meaning of Judaism and the search for spirituality in this world” (Los Angeles Times) Jewish by birth, though from a secular family, Alan Morinis explored Hinduism and Buddhism as a young man. But in 1997, in the face of personal crisis, he turned to his Jewish heritage for guidance. In his reading he happened upon a Jewish spiritual tradition called Mussar. Gradually he realized that he had stumbled upon an insightful discipline for self-development, complete with meditative, contemplative, and other well-developed transformative practices designed to penetrate the deepest roots of the inner life. Eventually reaching the limits of what he could learn on his own, he decided to seek out a Mussar teacher. This was not an easy task, since almost the entire world of the Mussar tradition had been wiped out in the Holocaust. In time, he found an accomplished master who stood in an...
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Paperback, 8vo.; Red permanent marker dot on bottom cut. [Auteur: Morinis, Alan] [Pagina's: 225] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Boston, Trumpeter] [Jaar: 2002] [Titel: Climbing Jacob's Ladder. One Man's Journey to Rediscover a Jewish Spiritual Tradition]
