Porous. Granular.
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.
Tzohar: A Survey of Illumination
Meditation aid consisting of Talmudic, Kabbalistic and modern teachings on the single window of Noah’s Ark as a portal into mystery.
Days of Awe 5784
Prayer, music, meditation for the deep portal that is the Days of Awe, High Holidays 5784 in Waltham, MA USA
Shiviti: Eheye Asher Eheye
Jewish meditation aid sourced in a mathematic fractal, plant medicine meditation, and the Torah.
Nine Consciousnesses of Smoke & Radiance
Refracting motifs in Sefer Yetzirah with the Zohar as meditation objects.
A Hall of Great Vessels: Summary of November 2022 Mini-Retreat
Summary of a mini-retreat, dedicated to silent meditation, niggunim / hassidic contemplative melodies, art practice and council practice, guided by nondual teachings from the Rav Kook.
Rain Falls Equally: Summary of Shemini Atzeret Meditation & Prayer Mini-Retreat (5783)
Report from a mini-retreat of silent meditation, dveykus music and council practice for the Hebrew holiday, integrating personal, collective, ancestral and ecological significance, closing this season of the Hebrew holidays.
Guiding Letters for The Days of Awe 5783
Weaving Jewish devotional liturgy, yearning, non-dual awareness, and ancestral reconnection during the ten days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur 5783/2022
Ki Hai: Khuma Drops Her Sleeve, A Hebrew Ko’An
The Talmud court drama oft-referred to as controversy about modesty, here interpreted as a Kabbalistic map to restore the Celestial Broken Vessel - Awareness itself.
Bearing Witness with the Indigenous Peoples of Northern and Southern America
Reports from actions and programs bearing witness with indigenous peoples of Northern and Southern America
On Bearing Witness in Auschwitz-Birkenau
Rami Avraham Efal interviewed on the Jewish Ancestral Healing Podcast by Rav Kohenet Taya Ma Shere, about the practice of ritual silence and bearing witness at the site of the Nazi concentration camp.