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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
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.
Peacemaker Prayer of Rabbi Nachman
The Peacemaker Prayer by Rabbi Nahman is an incantation for planetary peace and affirmation of non-dual reality. Here in Hebrew and English.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Walking in Each Other’s Temples
Conversations on Buddhism & Judaism, cultural humility, universalism & ancestry, and the sense of choice.
Brit Milah As Covenant Of Mind
Hebrew circumcision reimagined for contemplative practice, in which the newborn is the contemplative insight into the sense of self.
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.
Passover in Przemyśl: A Travelog
Humanitarian Deployment, Art, Ritual & Ancestral Healing, Bearing Witness to the 2022 Ukrainian Exodus
Karma is Ancestors, Weaving the Great Tapestry
Reflection on the One World Bearing Witness 2020 Vigil, Personal Lineages, and Planetary Ancestral Peacemaking
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.
