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Refuse to Clarify
Leonard Cohen speaks in 1964 about consciousness and the call of Judaism

The Jewish Monastic Project, A Concept Paper
Home-leaving, Beyond Nazir, Queering Normativity, and the Jewish Monastery

Kaijun’s Bones
Kaijun, an 84-year-young nun at Zen Mountain Monastery who passed away in March 2014, shared her brief insight on renunciation and celibacy.

2023 Financial Patronage Appeal
Rami Avraham Efal calls for financial patronage towards deployments and trainings in 2023: Humanitarian outreach, cross-cultural bearing witness, music & creativity, meditation & consciousness, Jewish & Buddhist non-duality.

Passage Practices: Casting Away of Remnants, Blessing of the Dwelling Place & Prayer of the Road
How awareness practices during times of passage bring insight into impermanence, empathy to those experiencing displacement & homelessness, and face ancestral trauma that has been trapped in physical spaces & bodies for generations.


Nazir: Temple of One, An Introduction
Heeding the Call of the Jewish Monastic Impulse. Jewish monastics’ role in ancestral trauma healing, and monasticism as a universal expression of a human inclination.