Climbing Jacob's Ladder: One Man's Journey to Rediscover a Jewish Spiritual Tradition

Climbing Jacob's Ladder: One Man's Journey to Rediscover a Jewish Spiritual Tradition
ISBN-10
1590303660
ISBN-13
9781590303665
Series
Climbing Jacob's Ladder
Category
Religion
Pages
225
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Shambhala Publications
Author
Alan Morinis

Description

Jewish by birth, though from a secular family, Alan Morinis explored Hinduism and Buddhism as a young man. But in 1997, in the face of personal crisis, he turned to his Jewish heritage for guidance. In his reading he happened upon a Jewish spiritual tradition called Mussar. Gradually he realized that he had stumbled upon an insightful discipline for self-development, complete with meditative, contemplative, and other well-developed transformative practices designed to penetrate the deepest roots of the inner life. Eventually reaching the limits of what he could learn on his own, he decided to seek out a Mussar teacher. This was not an easy task, since almost the entire world of the Mussar tradition had been wiped out in the Holocaust. In time, he found an accomplished master who stood in an unbroken line of transmission of the Mussar tradition, and who lived in the center of a community of Orthodox Jews on Long Island. This book tells the story of Morinis's journey to meet his teacher and what he learned from him, revealing the central teachings and practices that are the spiritual treasury and legacy of Mussar.

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