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ZIGGURAT addition to the few practices we have discussed—ayin, Torah study, and prayer meditations—Jews may heed the call of the Ve’Ahavta through observance of halakha, Jewish law. The Torah’s 248 positive 365 negative mitzvot (“commandments”) provide more than ample opportunity to lead a mindful life. Furthermore, there are specific brachot (“blessings”) one may recite to sanctify virtually any event, such as waking up, smelling a flower, washing hands, eating, urinating, hearing thunder, and encountering a river, beautiful person, strange-looking person, mountain, rainbow, spring bloom, outstanding scholar, and friend who has just recovered from a serious illness. On a more mystical level, every speck of space and matter in the universe is regarded as ayin and thus saturated with YHVH. The awareness of this divine energy underlying all material existence increases the flow from its source (ayin) to its manifestation (yesh). Thus, through gazing at an object, through meditating on a thing that is, one brings blessing to it. 51 The world can be transformed. I do not wish to imply that all Jews, or even most Jews, lead exceptionally contemplative lives. That is a personal matter that should be left to each individual. However, the wisdom and resources for such a lifestyle are plentiful in Judaism’s four millennia of existence. Notes 1. Pinson, DovBer. Meditation and Judaism: Exploring the Jewish Meditative Paths. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004. p. 10. 2. Alter, Robert, trans. The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2004. p. 512. 3. Pinson 6. 4. Kaplan, Aryeh. Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide. New York: Schocken Books, 1985. p. 41. 5. Pinson 6-7. 6. Kamenetz, Rodger. The Jew in the Lotus. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1995. p. 148. 7. Kaplan x. 8. Kaplan ix-x. 34
Contemplative Judaism 9. Fine, Lawrence. “Introduction.” Essential Papers on Kabbalah. Ed. Lawrence Fine. New York: New York University Press, 1995. p. 1. 10. Fine 2. 11. Jews and Buddhism: Belief amended, faith revealed. A film by Bill Chayes and Isaac Solotaroff. Chayes Productions, 1999. 12. Matt, Daniel. “Ayin: The Concept of Nothingness in Jewish Mysticism.” Essential Papers on Kabbalah. Ed. Lawrence Fine. New York: New York University Press, 1995. p. 67. 13. Kaplan 90. 14. Matt, Daniel. The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1995. p. 24. 15. Kaplan 89. 16. Matt, Ayin 81. 17. Kaplan 87-88. 18. Matt, Ayin, 86. 19. Matt, Ayin, 87; Fischer, Norman. Opening to You: Zen-Inspired Translations of the Psalms. New York: Viking Compass, 2002. p. xxiii. 20. Matt, Essential, 71. 21. Matt 72. 22. Pinson 53. 23. Matt, Ayin, 87. 24. Matt, Ayin, 91. 25. Matt, Ayin 91. 26. Pinson 53-54; Kaplan 87-90. 27. Kaplan 88. 28. Pinson 54. 29. Kaplan 85. 30. Kaplan 90-91. 31. Matt, Ayin, 87. 32. Matt, Ayin, 87. 33. Pinson, 96-97. 34. Buber, Martin, and Franz Rosenzweig. “People Today and the Jewish Bible: From a Lecture Series.” Scripture and Translation. Indianapna University Press, 1994. p. 7. 35. Pinson 97. 35
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