God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness and Embodied Spiritual Practice - Hardcover

Michaelson, Jay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1683360850 ISBN 13: 9781683360858

Publisher: Jewish Lights, 2006

Synopsis

Your body is the place where heaven and earth meet.

The greatest spiritual achievement is not transcending the body but joining body and spirit together. But to do this, you must break through assumptions that draw boundaries around the Infinite and wake up to the body as the site of holiness itself.

This groundbreaking book is the first comprehensive treatment of the body in Jewish spiritual practice and an essential guide to the sacred. With meditation practices, physical exercises, visualizations and sacred text, you will learn how to experience the presence of the Divine in, and through, your body. And by cultivating an embodied spiritual practice, you will transform everyday activities―eating, walking, breathing, washing―into moments of deep spiritual realization, uniting sacred and sensual, mystical and mundane.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

This provocative, innovative book teaches you how to experience God in your body, with exercises from traditional Jewish text and ritual, as well as the contemplative wisdom of the Kabbalah, Buddhism, Sufism, and the contemporary world. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of everyday living and gives you both straightforward, practical advice and thoughtful explorations of the theology and psychology of embodied spiritual practice.

The body, in its material miraculousness, is a gateway to the profound--and this book is your key.

About the Author:

Jay Michaelson has taught Kabbalah, mindfulness, and embodied spiritual practice at Yale University, City College, Elat Chayyim, the Skirball Center, and the Wexner Summer Institute, among other institutions. Chief editor of Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture, he is a regular contributor to the Forward, the Jerusalem Post, Slate and other publications. He holds a JD from Yale and an MA in religious studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he is currently a doctoral candidate.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jewish Lights
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1683360850
• ISBN 13: 9781683360858
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 266