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An Awakened Soul

JL;DR SUMMARY Exploring the intersection of spirituality and Judaism, Jay Michaelson reviews "Jewish With Feeling" by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, a founding figure of the Jewish Renewal movement. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish PhilosophySpiritualityMysticismPersonal ExperienceJewish PracticeIntellectual DevelopmentJewish RenewalZalman Schachter ShalomiMainstream AcceptanceExperiential Faith

Places mentioned

Elat Chayyim, New York, United States
"he still teaches occasionally, often (as this coming Shavuot) at Elat Chayyim, the upstate New York spiritual retreat center he inspired but not as widely or as frequently as in his younger years."
Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India
"mind expansion in the 1960s, the New Age in the 70s and 80s, places like Dharamsala and the Naropa Institute (where, until recently, he held the Chair in World Wisdom) in the last two decades."
Naropa, Colorado, United States
"mind expansion in the 1960s, the New Age in the 70s and 80s, places like Dharamsala and the Naropa Institute (where, until recently, he held the Chair in World Wisdom) in the last two decades."
Poland
"Born in Poland in 1924, Schachter-Shalomi is probably most associated with the mystically infused, psychologically attuned movement called Jewish Renewal."

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