Porous. Granular.
May Basalt Flow Like Honey
Written in October 2025, as Israel and Gaza edged toward a fragile ceasefire and the remaining 10/7 hostages were released, this meditation traces a journey across lands scarred by history — from the Golan Heights to the salt mines of Poland, the Carpathian forests to a Bronx synagogue. Weaving memory, geology, and the Zohar’s mysticism, “May Basalt Flow Like Honey” reflects on what it means to love a land after rupture — to let grief, faith, and time flow again toward sweetness.
Daroma: Temple of One 5786 Winter Practice Season | Summary
Daroma’s Temple of One Winter Practice Season (5786) was a ten-week online fellowship exploring Jewish contemplative practice through meditation, prayer, and text study, gathering participants across North America, Hawaiʻi, and Brazil into a shared field of disciplined spiritual formation.
Bearing Witness at the Nova Festival Memorial, NYC, Event, June 21 2024
On bearing witness at the Nova Festival memorial exhibition in New York City, June 2024
Daroma 5784 Spring Practice Season — Stillness, Ancestry, Brutality, and the First Crossing
Daroma’s Spring 5784 season with Rabbi Rami Avraham Efal unfolded between Pesach and Shavuot as a practice-centered container of stillness, ancestry, and contemplative Jewish practice. Through silence, niggun, and teachings drawn from Hasidic and mystical sources, participants explored trauma, memory, creativity, and covenant in the shadow of 10/7, holding complexity without rushing to resolve it.
The Hope of Injustice
Rabbi Rami Avraham Efal gave the following talk before the Zen buddhist sangha of Beacon Zen Temple in Beacon, New York, in Adar I 5784 / March 2024. It was centered on the teachings in “Outline of Practice” from The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, translated by Red Pine. The talk touches on meditation and awareness practice in light of the Hamas massacre in Israel in 10/7/2023 and the destruction in Gaza by the Israeli army that followed. It opens and closes with niggunim, hassidic melodic practice.
Nondual Readings in the Talmud March 5784 Series
Over three evenings Rabbi Rami Avraham Efal met with practitioners to meditate, practice absorption using niggunim hassidic melodies, and dive into the wisdom of the Talmud, the 1500 year old tome of Jewish wisdom, through fresh nondual eyes. Reflecting on the story of Khuma Drops her Sleeve (Ketubot 65a:9) Gamliel and the Moons (Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 2:8,) and Reb Yossei Praying in a Ruin (Berakhot 3a:12.)
Nothing Depends on You.
Consciousness, Grief, Praise, and Awakening the Peacemaker. Appeared first in a shorter form as “The Gate of kina,” Rami’s talk at his rabbinic transmission & ordination ceremony from Aleph seminary on 26 Tevet 5784,1/7/2024 in Denver, Colorado, Turtle Island, USA.
The Jewish Monastic Project, A Concept Paper
Home-leaving, Beyond Nazir, Queering Normativity, and the Jewish Monastery
Song Circle for Tu b'Av 5783 Evening of Love & Awareness, 8/1/2023 8pm ET (online)
Tuesday 8/1/2023 8pm-9:30pm ET. An evening dedicated to the song of love of lovers, and love of awareness itself.
Ma’a’gal Ki’nah / Grief Ritual for Tisha b'Av 5783
9 (Tisha) b’Av, an online grief ritual event, open to all. 7/26/2023 7:30-9:30pm ET.
Shiviti: Eheye Asher Eheye
Jewish meditation aid sourced in a mathematic fractal, plant medicine meditation, and the Torah.
Being Pentecost
Sermon recorded on Pentecost & Shavuot, on bearing witness, weaving Christian and Jewish prayer, sources and communities, at Allen Temple AME Church, Mt. Vernon, NY USA 5/28/2023
Tending to the Ashkenazi Jewish Ancestral Pain-Body on Yom Hashoah 5783
Community Chanting, Prayer, and Listening-Sharing on Holocaust Memorial Day 5783, Tuesday 4/18/2023 7pm ET, Online