One God Clapping: The Spiritual Path of a Zen Rabbi - Lew, Alan - paperback

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ISBN
9781580231152
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Publisher
Longhill Partners, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1580231152
ISBN-13
9781580231152
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1813488

Product Key Features

Book Title
One God Clapping : the Spiritual Path of a Zen Rabbi
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Buddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist), Judaism / General, Religious, General, Buddhism / Zen (See Also Philosophy / Zen)
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Religion, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Alan Lew
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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Trade
LCCN
00-054451
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"Speaks with honesty, compassion and humor, sharing the revelations and insights that spiritual seekers need and appreciate. A beautiful and rewarding read." --Light of Consciousness "A fascinating personal story and a parable for Jewish practice in our time. Lew is not afraid to share some of the stumblings and confusions of his life, and so when the moments of clarity arrive, they do so with sincerity and force, and often in images that linger with the reader like a bell sounding in a quiet space." --Rodger Kamenetz, author of The Jew in the Lotus and Stalking Elijah "Lew opens his heart and treats the reader to a banquet for the soul. A treasure." --Lawrence Kushner, author of Invisible Lines of Connection: Sacred Stories of the Ordinary; Honey from the Rock: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism; and other books "The compelling personal encounter with the divine that shines through this straightforward, honest, wonderfully well-written autobiography inspires faith that an awakened spiritual life is a possibility for all of us." --Sylvia Boorstein, author of That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist
Dewey Decimal
296/.092 B
Table Of Content
PART I: To Leave Everything That Is Familiar Prologue: The Way Things Are 1. A Vivid Dream 2. Jewish Karma 3. Please Throw Me a Rope 4. How I Learned to Look Beneath the Surface 5. Freedom Is a Spiritual State 6. Sublimating Spirituality 7. Lech Lecha 8. The War Between the Two Sides of the Brain 9. Death Recycles into Life 10. The Question Is Not Whether a Teacher Has Real Spiritual Power, but How That Power Is Used 11. Centering 12. Meditation 13. The Gateway 14. Form Is Emptiness 15. Spiritual Pyrotechnics 16. Dokusan 17. When Peace Breaks Out, the First Thing You Feel Is the Devastation of the War 18. The Need to Belong 19. Emptiness Is Form 20. Compassion 21. They Do Not Appear or Disappear 22. My Naked Heart 23. Healing Presence 24. Closure 25. Family 26. Wedding 27. Narrative 28. Hold On to Your Hat PART II: God Was in This Place and I Didn't Know It 29. The Funnel 30. The Kaddish 31. Studying Talmud 32. The Holocaust 33. Prayer 34. Service 35. Why the Messiah Doesn't Come 36. Death 37. Teshuvah 38. The Lineaments of the Divine Encounter 39. Kabbalah 40. Taking Leave PART III: To Struggle with God Until Your Name Changes 41. The Shem'a 42. Open the Gates 43. Our Divine Name 44. What I Learned from Buddhism About How to Save Judaism 45. How to Look at Your Heart
Synopsis
From Zen Buddhist practitioner to rabbi, East meets West in this firsthand account of a spiritual journey. Rabbi Alan Lew is known as the Zen Rabbi, a leader in the Jewish meditation movement who works to bring two ancient religious traditions into our everyday lives. One God Clapping is the story of his roundabout yet continuously provoking spiritual odyssey. It is also the story of the meeting between East and West in America, and the ways in which the encounter has transformed how all of us understand God and ourselves. Winner of the PEN / Joseph E. Miles Award Like a Zen parable or a Jewish folk tale, One God Clapping unfolds as a series of stories, each containing a moment of revelation or instruction that, while often unexpected, is never simple or contrived. One God Clapping, like the life of the remarkable Alan Lew himself, is a bold experiment in the integration of Eastern and Western ways of looking at and living in the world., Known as the Zen Rabbi, Alan Lew works to bring two ancient religious traditions into our everyday lives. This spiritual memoir integrates Eastern and Western spirituality and shows how Zen in America has transformed our understanding of God and ourselves.
LC Classification Number
BM755.L485A3 2001
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Jaffe, Sherril

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