God Was in This Place and I, I Did Not Know - Lawrence Kushner
Finding Self, Spirituality and Ultimate Meaning (The Kushner Series)
KORTE INHOUD
Selected as a Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC)
“Significant Jewish Book”
Jacob was running away from home. One night he lay down in the wilderness to sleep and had one of the great mystical experiences of Western religion. He dreamed there was a ladder, with angels ascending and descending, stretched between heaven and earth. For thousands of years, people have tried to overhear what the messengers came down to tell Jacob, and us.
Now in a daring blend of scholarship and imagination, psychology and history, Lawrence Kushner gathers an inspiring range of interpretations of Genesis 28:16 given by sages, from Shmuel bar Nachmani in third-century Palestine to Hannah Rachel Werbermacher of Ludomir who lived in Poland two hundred years ago. Through a fascinating new literary genre and Kushner’s creative reconstruction of the teachers’ lives and times, we enter the study halls and sit at the feet of these spiritual masters to learn what each discovered about God’s Self and ourselves as they ascend and desc...
“Significant Jewish Book”
Jacob was running away from home. One night he lay down in the wilderness to sleep and had one of the great mystical experiences of Western religion. He dreamed there was a ladder, with angels ascending and descending, stretched between heaven and earth. For thousands of years, people have tried to overhear what the messengers came down to tell Jacob, and us.
Now in a daring blend of scholarship and imagination, psychology and history, Lawrence Kushner gathers an inspiring range of interpretations of Genesis 28:16 given by sages, from Shmuel bar Nachmani in third-century Palestine to Hannah Rachel Werbermacher of Ludomir who lived in Poland two hundred years ago. Through a fascinating new literary genre and Kushner’s creative reconstruction of the teachers’ lives and times, we enter the study halls and sit at the feet of these spiritual masters to learn what each discovered about God’s Self and ourselves as they ascend and desc...
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1993 Uitgever: Jewish Lights Publishing 192 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1879045338 ISBN-13: 9781879045330Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Paperback, 181 pp. 1st paperback edition, 5th printing. Illustrated, notes. 15x22x1,5 cm. Tiny hole in end page, light discolouration pages, in good condition. [Auteur: Kushner, Lawrence] [Uitgever: Jewish Lights Publishing: Woodstock, 1994] [Titel: God was in this Place & I, I did not know: Finding self, spirituality and ultimate meaning]
