New York Kollel Tikkun Leil Shavuot

June 1st at the New York KOLLEL

Free Entrance Free Food Free Torah

The Jewish Book of the Dead at 10 p.m.

Torah and Tantra at 2:00 a.m.

Come late - Come early - Stay all Night

On Thrusday, June 1st, Rabbi Josh Saltzman will be teaching 2 classess at the New York Kollel for Tikkun Leil Shavuot.

Ma'ariv services begin at 8:30 p.m. Classes begin at 9:00 p.m.

There will be classes offered all night until 5:00 a.m.

Come for an hour, stay all night.

The New York Kollel is inviting you to join them for a night of study commerating the receiving of Torah at Mount Sinai.

Everything is FREE - no prior registration necessary. Bring I.D.

My 10 p.m. class is called DEATH AND DESIRE: THE JEWISH BOOK OF THE DEAD.

We will explore several classic Jewish texts on death and dying, including Ma'avor YaBok, written by Rabbi Aaron Berechiah b. Moses of Modena, first published in 1626 in Mantua, Italy. While many scholars reference this text, it has never fully been translated into English.

For the first time ever, you will have the opportunity to study key portions of it in a new english translation. Like other "books of the dead" (the most famous of these being the Tibetan Book of the Dead) the Jewish Book of the Dead was written to be used as a guide for both the living and the dying.

As a text for the living, it offers us the possibility to explore territories of the psyche prior to our actual biological death.The experiential practice of dying, or "dying before dying" has several important consequences for us today. First of all, it empowers us to begin to liberate ourselves from the fear of death and helps to transform our attitude towards death and dying.

Thus it prepares us to live a fuller, deeper life. And, it helps pave the way for understanding and insight not only into our own biological demise but the death of others as well. In this way, it allows us to explore our own psychological and spiritual confrontation with death, on the one hand, and provides a unique glimpse into the art of death and dying from the heart of the Jewish spiritual tradition. We explore several other texts as well.

For those brave souls who would like to study all night
i guess you have to be a mystic or an insomniac or drink many cups of coffee and eat lots of cheese cake.

my second class will begin at 2 a.m.

Torah and Tantra: An Ongoing Dialogue

The interest in Eastern Religions continues to be a widespread phenomenon among Jews across the spectrum. Where does the voice of Torah unfold in this conversation? What can Tantra learn from Torah? Some Jewish scholars working in the culture of questions go beyond the known and seek to elicit new revelations of Torah - hiddushei Torah.

The art of the question in the Jewish tradition, represented by such amazing thinkers as
Rabbi Abraham Abulafia, whose kabbalistic techniques of zerufim essentially created what we now call "ecstatic or prophetic kabbalah" was influenced by several religious traditions. Rabbi Abulafia was clearly influenced by Sufi writings - and used very similiar teaching techniques developed and emphasized by the Sufi tradition. And he was also, probably indirectly, influenced by the Indian shunya, which by the time of Rabbi Abulafia was known as the number zero.

Just like other numerals, zero had many synonyms in Hinduism - ananata, the infinitie, vishnupada, Vishnu's foot just to name a few. And the Shunya-chakra, meaning literally "emptiness circle" is still currently used in most notations in India and southeast Asia.

The shunya-bindu, literally the zero dot, used in the regions of Kashmir, represented the archetypical symbol of the dot - the universe in its non-manifested form before its transformation into the world of appearance not unlike Ein SoF in the Kabbalistic tradition.

If you are still awake, we might actually discover and interpret one of the fundemental tools of humankind - alphabets that also have a written position numeration. Perhaps we can stand again, for one brief moment, at Sinia, and on the banks of the Ganges rivers, looking and listening to find a hiddush Torah amid the lightening and thunder iand the flowing rush of the holy river.

Some contemporary Jewish scholars explored uncharted territories of the mind and soul as they travelled through India and South East Asia, particularly - Burma and Thailand. Working in the culture of questions, several of them became a generative part of contemporary Western Indology - thus learning to articulate the mediation of Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism. They began to make connections between Jerusalem, Benares and Bankok.

Tonight, we will seek - through the wisdom of questions, to explore the emerging cross-cultural resonances among several highly developed modes of being that are reached through certain rituals and meditation, study and prayer in all three spiritual traditions

The culture of questions keeps the door open, always allowing an expanding dialogue between diverse spiritual traditions.

So come and imagine - Torah and Tantra - and join in the infinite joyous dance of Shiva, Shechinah and Samadhi.

Hope to see you there.

The New Yew York Kollel is located at the Hebrew Union College, One West 4th Street between Broadway and Mercer.

Subway W,R to 8th Street; a,C,E,F, V to West 4th Street; 6 to Astor place.

For more information see: New York Kollel Spring 2006HUC.edu Kollel Home or contact me at jsaltzman1@yahoo.com

New York Kollel " Torah Study for the city that never sleeps"

Questions on the Edge

Shalom,


Welcome to the first virtual meeting of Jews on the Edge (JOE).

JOE is co-sponsored by www.TheFullHit.com - promoting Spiritual and Intellectual nourishment for the Jewish World (managed by Elyakeem)

Let’s get started.

Please feel free to bring up any questions, suggestions, observations that will help move the conversation along.

Here are some of the ideas and questions that I would like to ask.
Hopefully these questions will stimulate a dialogue and provide a broader framework to address different issues and raise new questions.

But that depends on each of you.

1) Jews on the Edge is an experiment in creating a network of people who will be able to share their professional experiences, share stories and raise questions.

2) We also hope to further expand whatever network you have already established.

3) Provide an opportunity for many of us to learn how to engage in the practice of “spiritual marketing.” in order to earn parnasah and at the same time be immersed in the words and world of Torah.

4) Provide “working” stipends for your project – go build an ark!

Comments can be posted anonymously,
but we invite you to join the new community of
Jews on the Edge

· Request an invitation to join the BLOG

· Tell us who you are and what you do, teach, create etc… .

· Add comments to postings and new topics to the discussion.

· Be part of the new JOE e-newsletter


I. Stories, Experience and Needs

How are you surviving???

What painful experiences have you been through and how can the community help?

What has helped you in your professional career?

What do you need from JOE to improve or enhance your situation?

How successful have you been in networking with different people and institutions?

Where and what kind of problems have you encountered?

What audiences are you reaching? How?





II. How to Get Involved

Would you like to be part of a small cadre of individuals who help organize, research, write grants and raise money for JOE?

Would you be willing to share your network contacts with other people?

Would you like to receive a stipend from JOE in order to ease the financial burden?


III. Spiritual Marketing

Can you learn to be a successful entrepreneur.

Do you want to learn how to improve your marketing skills?

Would you be interested in a seminar on spiritual marketing online?

Would you attend a seminar on spiritual marketing?

Can you teach any of the skills necessary to create a personal brand?

Do these kinds of questions make you uncomfortable?

What other information would help you to be more successful or financially stable?




What are the first actions steps?

Jews on the Edge to meet Wednesday May 24th at 8p.m. Brooklyn time

JEWS ON THE EDGE rebels, misfits and mystics

www.jewishwisdomcircle.blogspot.com

co-sponsored by www.TheFullHit.com

Virtual Jewish Networking Meeting on

wednesday, May 24th at 8:00 brooklyn time

Those who are interested in joining a small group of people who will help incubate and teach, write grants and organize the network may be able to receive a number of additional benefits including office space, telephone, computer, For more information please contact jsaltzman1@gmail.com as soon as possible. There are only a limited number of spaces available.


Are you interested in joining a network of Jewish scholars, teachers and other professionals who find themselves working outside the conventional Jewish framework?

Are you dedicated to Talmud Torah Lishmah but also need to make a parnasah?

Are you always looking for the next gig, worrying about the rent, or otherwise caught up in economic woes which prevent you from writing, teaching, creating or learning?

If so, than this meeting is the place for you!

Please respond to this email/blog by letting us know of your desire to have a place to come and share ideas, network and provide support and encouragement to those of us working on the margins. It is about time we get together and figure out new and innovative ways to earn a living and do what we love most - Teach, Write, Learn and Play (the Arts) TORAH

UPDATES:

Wednesday May 24th at 8:00 p.m.

We go virtual for our first meeting.

Jews on the Edge is co-sponsored by www.TheFullHit.com
Please join us.

If you are busy, come to the blog later and add you comments.
Come to ask your questions, share your experience, create community and more.

We will also have a land meeting - date to be determined by the virtual participants in the tri-state area. The more people we reach, the more new possibilites will unfold.

You will receive an invitation to join this blog so we can have a conversation in real time on our virtual network if you contact jsaltzman1@gmail.com

Please send this announcement to people you know so we can reach as many Jews on the Edge as possible. Every person adds a new node to the network. Many of you already have mailing lists that you use for events - please email out on your lists.

And please SPREAD THE WORD AROUND TOWN

JEWS ON THE EDGE

Jews on the edge,

the network is growing incredibly fast and we are now international. Please, in order to continue to create an effective network we must continue to send out the message to as many people as we can. I ask you to rethink all your network connections, resend the invitation to the network meeting on May 24th at 8p.m new york time.

todah and kol tov,

peace,

R. Josh

Jews on the

JEWS ON THE EDGE rebels, misfits and mystics

www.jewishwisdomcircle.blogspot.com

co-sponsored by www.TheFullHit.com

Virtual Jewish Networking Meeting on

wednesday, May 24th at 8:00 brooklyn time

Those who are interested in joining a small group of people who will help incubate and teach, write grants and organize the network may be able to receive a number of additional benefits including office space, telephone, computer, For more information please contact jsaltzman1@gmail.com as soon as possible. There are only a limited number of spaces available.


Are you interested in joining a network of Jewish scholars, teachers and other professionals who find themselves working outside the conventional Jewish framework?

Are you dedicated to Talmud Torah Lishmah but also need to make a parnasah?

Are you always looking for the next gig, worrying about the rent, or otherwise caught up in economic woes which prevent you from writing, teaching, creating or learning?

If so, than this meeting is the place for you!

Please respond to this email/blog by letting us know of your desire to have a place to come and share ideas, network and provide support and encouragement to those of us working on the margins. It is about time we get together and figure out new and innovative ways to earn a living and do what we love most - Teach, Write, Learn and Play (the Arts) TORAH

UPDATES:

Wednesday May 24th at 8:00 p.m.

We go virtual for our first meeting.

Jews on the Edge is co-sponsored by www.TheFullHit.com
Please join us.

If you are busy, come to the blog later and add you comments.
Come to ask your questions, share your experience, create community and more.

We will also have a land meeting - date to be determined by the virtual participants in the tri-state area. The more people we reach, the more new possibilites will unfold.

You will receive an invitation to join this blog so we can have a conversation in real time on our virtual network if you contact jsaltzman1@gmail.com

Please send this announcement to people you know so we can reach as many Jews on the Edge as possible. Every person adds a new node to the network. Many of you already have mailing lists that you use for events - please email out on your lists.

And please SPREAD THE WORD AROUND TOWN posted by Reb Josh @ 6:22 PM

Torah and Tantra at 2 a.m, June 1st - The Jewish Book of the Dead at 10 p.m. Come late - Come early

Dear friends,

On Thrusday, June 1st, I will be teaching 2 classess at the New York Kollel for Tikkun Leil Shavuot.

Ma'ariv services begin at 8:30 p.m. Classes begin at 9:00 p.m.

There will be classes offered all night until 5:00 a.m.

Come for an hour, stay all night.

The New York Kollel is inviting you to join them for a night of study commerating the receiving of Torah at Mount Sinai.

Everything is FREE - no prior registration necessary. Bring I.D.

My 10 p.m. class is called DEATH AND DESIRE: THE JEWISH BOOK OF THE DEAD.

We will explore the classic Jewish text on death and dying, Ma'avor YaBok, written by Rabbi Aaron Berechiah b. Moses of Modena, first published in 1626 in Mantua, Italy. While many scholars reference this text, it has never fully been translated into English.

For the first time ever, you will have the opportunity to study key portions of it in a new english translation Like other "books of the dead" (the most famous of these being the Tibetan Book of the Dead) the Jewish Book of the Dead was written to be used as a guide for both the living and the dead.

As a text for the living, it offers us the possibility to explore territories of the psyche prior to our actual biological death.The experiential practice of dying, or "dying before dying" has several important consequences for us today. First of all, it empowers us to begin to liberate ourselves from the fear of death and helps to transform our attitude towards death and dying.

Thus it prepares us to live a fuller, deeper life. And, it helps pave the way for understanding and insight not only into our own biological demise but the death of others as well. In this way, it allows us to explore our own psychological and spiritual confrontation with death, on the one hand, and provides a unique glimpse into the art of death and dying from the heart of the Jewish spiritual tradition.


For those brave souls who study all night (i guess you have to be a mystic or an insomniac or drink many cups of coffee -)

my second class will begin at 2 a.m.

Torah and Tantra: An Ongoing Dialogue

The interest in Eastern Religions continues to be a widespread phenomenon among Jews across the spectrum. Where does the voice of Torah unfold in this conversation? What can Tantra learn from Torah? Some Jewish scholars working in the culture of questions go beyond the known and seek to elicit new revelations of Torah - hiddushei Torah.

The art of the question in the Jewish tradition, represented by such amazing thinkers as
Rabbi Abraham Abulafia, whose kabbalistic techniques of zerufim essentially created what we now call "ecstatic or prophetic kabbalah" was influenced by several religious traditions. Rabbi Abulafia was clearly influenced by Sufi writings - and used very similiar teaching techniques developed and emphasized by the Sufi tradition. And he was also, probably indirectly, influenced by the Indian shunya, which by the time of Rabbi Abulafia was known as the number zero.

Just like other numerals, zero had many synonyms in Hinduism - ananata, the infinitie, vishnupada, Vishnu's foot just to name a few. And the Shunya-chakra, meaning literally "emptiness circle" is still currently used in most notations in India and southeast Asia.

The shunya-bindu, literally the zero dot, used in the regions of Kashmir, represented the archetypical symbol of the dot - the universe in its non-manifested form before its transformation into the world of appearance not unlike Ein SoF in the Kabbalistic tradition.

If you are still awake, we might actually discover and interpret one of the fundemental tools of humankind - alphabets that also have a written position numeration. Perhaps we can stand again, for one brief moment, at Sinia, and on the banks of the Ganges rivers, looking and listening to find a hiddush Torah amid the lightening and thunder iand the flowing rush of the holy river.

Some contemporary Jewish scholars explored uncharted territories of the mind and soul as they travelled through India and South East Asia, particularly - Burma and Thailand. Working in the culture of questions, several of them became a generative part of contemporary Western Indology - thus learning to articulate the mediation of Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism. They began to make connections between Jerusalem, Benares and Bankok.

Tonight, we will seek - through the wisdom of questions, to explore the emerging cross-cultural resonances among several highly developed modes of being that are reached through certain rituals and meditation, study and prayer in all three spiritual traditions

The culture of questions keeps the door open, always allowing an expanding dialogue between diverse spiritual traditions.

So come and imagine - Torah and Tantra - and join in the infinite joyous dance of Shiva, Shechinah and Samadhi.

Hope to see you there.

The New Yew York Kollel is located at the Hebrew Union College, One West 4th Street between Broadway and Mercer.

Subway W,R to 8th Street; a,C,E,F, V to West 4th Street; 6 to Astor place.

For more information see: New York Kollel Spring 2006HUC.edu Kollel Home or contact me at jsaltzman1@yahoo.com

New York Kollel " Torah Study for the city that never sleeps"

Jewish Networking Meeting - for Jews On the Edge

Jewish Networking Meeting
for misfits, rebels and mystics

Are you interested in joining a network of Jewish scholars, teachers and other professionals who find themselves working outside the conventional Jewish framework?

Are you dedicated to Talmud Torah Lishmah but also need to make a parnasah?

Are you always looking for the next gig, worrying about the rent, or otherwise caught up in economic woes which prevent you from writing, teaching, creating or learning?

If so, than this meeting is the place for you!

The call is going out.

Please respond to this email/blog by letting us know of your desire to have a place to come and share ideas, network and provide support and encouragement to those of us working on the margins. It is about time we get together and figure out new and innovative ways to earn a living and do what we love most - Teach, Write, Learn and Play (the Arts) TORAH


UPDATES:

Wednesday May 24th at 8:00 p.m.
We go virtual for our first meeting.

Jews on the Edge is co-sponsored by TheFullhit.com

Please join us.

If you are busy, come to the blog later and add you comments.

Come to ask your questions, share your experience, create community and more.

We will also have a land meeting - date to be determined by the virtual participants in the tri state area. The more people we reach, the more new possibilites will unfold.


You will receive an invitation to join this blog so we can have a conversation in real time on our virtual network if you contact jsaltzman1@yahoo.com

Please send this announcement to people you know so we can reach as many Jews on the Edge as possible. Every person adds a new node to the network.

And please SPREAD THE WORD AROUND TOWN

Jewish Book of the Dead

Dear friends,

On Thrusday, June 1st, I will be teaching a class at the New York Kollel for Tikkun Leil Shavuot.

Ma'ariv services begin at 8:30 p.m.

Classes begin at 9:00 p.m.

There will be classes offered all night until 5:00 a.m.

Come for an hour, stay all night. The New York Kollel is inviting you to join them for a night of study commerating the receiving of Torah at Mount Sinai. Everything is FREE - no prior registration necessary. Bring I.D.

My class is called DEATH AND DESIRE: THE JEWISH BOOK OF THE DEAD. We will explore the classic Jewish text on death and dying, Ma'avor YaBok, written by Rabbi Aaron Berechiah b. Moses of Modena, first published in 1626 in Mantua, Italy. While many scholars reference this text, it has never fully been translated into English.

For the first time ever, you will have the opportunity to study key portions of it in a new english translation (I am still in the process of translating the book with Henry Resnick.)

Like other "books of the dead" (the most famous of these being the Tibetan Book of the Dead) the Jewish Book of the Dead was written to be used as a guide for both the living and the dead. As a text for the living, it offers us the possibility to explore territories of the psyche prior to our actual biological death.

The experiential practice of dying, or "dying before dying" has several important consequences for us today. First of all, it empowers us to begin to liberate ourselves from the fear of death and helps to transform our attitude towards death and dying.

Thus it prepares us to live a fuller, deeper life. And, it helps pave the way for understanding and insight not only into our own biological demise but the death of others as well. In this way, it allows us to explore our own psychological and spiritual confrontation with death, on the one hand, and provides a unique glimpse into the art of death and dying from the heart of the Jewish spiritual tradition.

It is an experience you don't want to miss!

The New Yew York Kollel is located at the Hebrew Union College, One West 4th Street between Broadway and Mercer. Subway W,R to 8th Street; a,C,E,F, V to West 4th Street; 6 to Astor Place.

Time of Class TBA

for more information see: New York Kollel Spring 2006HUC.edu Kollel Home or contact me at jsaltzman1@yahoo.com

New York Kollel " Torah Study for the city that never sleeps"



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posted by Reb Josh @ 7:19 PM

introduction to judaism - additional readings for May 8

Introduction to Judaism

additional readings for next week
click on the links below:

The Bible as Ancient Literature (Relevance:100) -->
Canonization of the Hebrew Bible (Relevance:100) -->

Dear friends,

On Thrusday, June 1st, I will be teaching a class at the New York Kollel for Tikkun Leil Shavuot.

Ma'ariv services begin at 8:30 p.m.

Classes begin at 9:00 p.m.

There will be classes offered all night until 5:00 a.m.

Come for an hour, stay all night. The New York Kollel is inviting you to join them for a night of study commerating the receiving of Torah at Mount Sinai. Everything is FREE - no prior registration necessary. Bring I.D.

My class is called DEATH AND DESIRE: THE JEWISH BOOK OF THE DEAD. We will explore the classic Jewish text on death and dying, Ma'avor YaBok, written by Rabbi Aaron Berechiah b. Moses of Modena, first published in 1626 in Mantua, Italy. While many scholars reference this text, it has never fully been translated into English.

For the first time ever, you will have the opportunity to study key portions of it in a new english translation (I am still in the process of translating the book with Henry Resnick.)

Like other "books of the dead" (the most famous of these being the Tibetan Book of the Dead) the Jewish Book of the Dead was written to be used as a guide for both the living and the dead. As a text for the living, it offers us the possibility to explore territories of the psyche prior to our actual biological death.

The experiential practice of dying, or "dying before dying" has several important consequences for us today. First of all, it empowers us to begin to liberate ourselves from the fear of death and helps to transform our attitude towards death and dying.

Thus it prepares us to live a fuller, deeper life. And, it helps pave the way for understanding and insight not only into our own biological demise but the death of others as well. In this way, it allows us to explore our own psychological and spiritual confrontation with death, on the one hand, and provides a unique glimpse into the art of death and dying from the heart of the Jewish spiritual tradition.

It is an experience you don't want to miss!

The New Yew York Kollel is located at the Hebrew Union College, One West 4th Street between Broadway and Mercer. Subway W,R to 8th Street; a,C,E,F, V to West 4th Street; 6 to Astor Place.

Time of Class TBA

for more information see: New York Kollel Spring 2006HUC.edu Kollel Home or contact me at jsaltzman1@yahoo.com

New York Kollel " Torah Study for the city that never sleeps"



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