Kabbalah of Prayer
Sacred Sounds and the Soul's Journey

Shulamit Elson

Softbound

$20.00

In this remarkable, groundbreaking book, Shulamit Elson writes with eloquence and authority about our soul’s journey, our place in the universe, and our relationship to God through prayer. In beautiful and simple words, she shares the ancient teachings and the sacred sounds of the Kabbalah in ways capable of reconnecting us with the Eternal and changing our lives forever.

We learn of her journey from the closed world of an Orthodox Jewish family, on a voyage of discovery that took her into a secular life of poetry and travel throughout Europe. Then, faced with personal difficulties and waking visions, she began a path of meditation. Gifts of healing and prophecy followed. Eventually she met her Maggid, the traditional Kabbalistic “answering angel,” with whose help she developed a series of meditative “Sound Prayers” using sacred sounds made with the voice.

Elson explains the theological, cosmological, and esoteric foundations upon which “Sound Prayer” is based. We are introduced to the ancient wisdom of the Kabbalah, the “Tree of Life,” and the structure of the soul in its relationship with God. We learn the true nature of prayer, how it relates to Tikkun Olam (“Repair of the World”), and how “Sound Prayer” relates to different angelic levels of being and truth.

This is a practical book that gives individual exercises as well as offering help on meeting specific challenges, including spiritual struggles, feelings of meaninglessness, and harsh self-judgment, as well as illness, fear, and anxiety.

This Is for Everyone
Universal Principles of Healing Prayer and the Jewish Mystics

Douglas Goldhamer, DD
Melinda Stengel, LCSW

$14.95

I am more excited about This Is for Everyone than I have been about any book in a long, long time. It is not only a very well-written, hands-on, experientially based guide to healing prayer, it is also one of the only instances where I have witnessed true ecumenicalism - that behind all the varieties of religious practice and experience lies the same spiritual reality - in practice. This Is for Everyone is itself a healing prayer - a loving balm to soothe and heal our separation from each other.
Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer is as universal a soul as you are apt to find - deeply committed to his own Jewish religion, yet even more committed to God and to all people. He has nearly 20 years experience with healing prayer and working with people from many different faiths. Melinda Stengel is a Catholic social worker who came to Rabbi Douglas to learn from him when she was faced with a deep life crisis and then stayed on to help with his work. Together they have written a book can place the power of healing prayer in the hands of anyone wanting to use it.
Each section of their tutorial is divided into three sections: Universal Principle, Liberating Concept, How to Do it - an approach which is empowering, unifying and healing. Please read this book - you'll love it!

The Shambhala Guide to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism
An essential introduction to the philosophy and practice of the mystical traditions of Judaism

Perle Besserman

Softbound

$13.95

Perle Besserman is a descendent of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism, and she has studied with many of the greatest teachers of this tradition. She also must be an outstanding pupil, because she has managed to present a complete overview of this very complex approach to Spiritual Life in terms that are clear, concise and yet also complete enough and deep enough to guide the reader into an experiential awareness of the life behind the practices. This is an outstanding work which I read with the same gripping interest that I usually save for really good novels. Her presentation was such that I was able to participate in the meditative experience of each practice - at least a little bit, a least enough to grasp the beauty and the potentials of each practice. This is a wonderful introduction to a beautiful spiritual path.

The Kabbalah of Envy
Transforming Hatred, Anger, and Other Negative Emotions

Rabbi Nilton Bonder

Hardbound

$18.00

The Kabbalah of Envy is probably the most practical and immediate "self-help" book I've seen. Rabbi Bonder begins with two premises - that negative states of mind precede enlightened ones, and that envy is the root, the most abstract form, of rage. Because of its refined nature, envy can store huge amounts of aggression, controlling acts, resentment, hatred and bitterness. There is a rabbinical saying that "A person is known in three ways: by his cup, his pocket, and his rage." Rabbi Bonder's goal in this book is to teach us how to transform rage - whether we are on the giving or receiving end and whether it comes in the subtlest envy or the most volcanic outbursts - into love, into kindness and compassion. Travelling through this book with Rabbi Bonder is like walking with a wise friend who is deeply grounded in the ways of the world and passionately in love with God. This is one of the most do-able and inspiring pathways around. Very highly recommended!

The Tree of Life
Meditations, Prayers, and Practices of Mystical Judaism

Rabbi David Zeller

6 Audio Cassettes plus Study Guide
Sturdy Binder Case

Approximately 9 hours

$59.95

I learned an amazing amount from these tapes - in some ways I learned as much about my own traditions (Protestant Christianity/Esoteric Christianity) as I did about the wonderful pathways offered by mystical Judaism. Rabbi Zeller is uniquely qualified to convey Jewish teachings in a way that embraces everyone - his own pathway has been one that encompassed and embraced meditative pathways seemingly far-distant from Judaism. He began as a student in Berkeley with an interest in Jewish folk dance. Life led him to a lengthy practice Zen Buddhism and then to move to India for several years. There he lived the life of a Siddha (a renunciate monk) and learned deep meditation under a master. Eventually, Judaism called him back and he (re)discovered the life-giving depths of Jewish mysticism as he studied for many years under the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. And now he can teach us!

According to Hebrew tradition, two trees stood in the Garden of Eden - the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life. Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, from which we all ate long ago, gives us the ability to think in polarities - our dualistic consciousness. The Tree of Life - from which we must learn to eat - offers up the whole universe as we develop a non-dualistic, cosmic awareness. With this awareness we experience the reality of union with all Creation and with our Creator.

Rabbi Zeller offers us the sublime, sweet fruit of the Tree of Life - from a tradition that strives to reveal the light of God to a world struggling in darkness.

Outstanding!!