In this article Munisha, a Buddhist, finds out about Kabbalist meditation. Listen to her conversation with Les, a Jewish practitioner, read more about Jewish meditation and try an exercise.

My dear friend, Ralph Lane, wrote poetry in his retirement years. One such poem, entitled, “I Will Never Be a Mystic,” reads: “I will never be a mystic and to be honest, I am not really trying though ...

“You mean, no talking, like not at all?” my sister asked by phone during the two-hour drive to the Royal Way Spiritual Retreat Center in Lucerne Valley. “That’s intense.” It was June 2016, three years ...

You’re not going to believe this: There are actually full-grown, college-educated Jewish human beings who are completely unaware of the existence of something called Jewish meditation! I believe it, ...

If you haven't read Hebrew since the rite-of-passage ceremony known as the bar mitzvah, customarily conducted at the age of 13, then a willfully obscure text of ancient Jewish mysticism is probably ...

Omer-Man’s meeting with the Dalai Lama in 1990 was described in Rodger Kamenetz’s best-selling book “The Jew in the Lotus,” (JTA) — Jonathan Omer-Man, a rabbi and pioneer in Jewish meditation whose ...

Rabbi Dorothy Richman speaks about the mystical strain of Judaism, popularly called Kabbalah. This short, lunchtime gallery talk is inspired by the work of Annabeth Rosen, whose practice draws on ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — Most Jewish religious schools begin the day with a traditional morning prayer. After that, students spend much of their time studying Talmud, the central text of Jewish law. But at ...

Rabbi David Samson: "Just as a person can’t pick up a scalpel and become a brain surgeon without years of preparation, a person cannot become a Jewish Meditator without first meeting all of the ...

When I asked composer Daniel David Feinsmith what his former life as a Zen monk had entailed, he had a ready answer. “Well,” he told me by phone from San Francisco, “it involved celibacy. It involved ...