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The process requires much patience,
and he acknowledges that for many
people working on such a small scale
would be nightmarish. He finds that
the work helps focus his attention.
At meetings, he's known to have his
papercuts in front of him, working
with his hands as he listens.
In leading Shabbat services and also at
weekly early morning meditation classes,
Rabbi Strassfeld makes use of niggunim,
wordless melodies that are repeated.
He explains that these melodies, very
much a part of his spiritual practice, are
a way of moving beyond language,
expressing things impossible to express
with words. The soulful singing reaches
deep inside and stretches toward heaven.
He is just releasing his first CD,
Songs to Open the Heart, a collection of
these niggunim, composed in various
Chasidic communities.
Throughout the book, Rabbi Strassfeld
shares stories of his own journey.
In the section on lifecycle, he maps
out the books of the Bible, overlaying
the lifecycle of the people of Israel
onto the contemporary lifecycle.
For example, drawing parallels between
the beginnings in Genesis and the birth
process and ritual, he describes Bamidbar
(Numbers), which covers the close to
40 years of wandering in the desert, the
time between the Revelation at Sinai
and the arrival at the Promised Land, as
the years between youth and old age.
That's the stage of life where he finds
himself, past the milestone moments,
with beginning signs of aging.
He writes in general about issues of
illness, visiting the sick, living wills,
divorce, disappointments and blessings
of the period, and tells of his own
divorce and thoughts about turning 50.
For him, this is a time of self-knowl-
edge and satisfaction, feeling part of a
community. "Psychologically, there are
no empty spaces on my walls calling
out to be filled," he writes, agreeing
with author Sharon Salzberg that, to
paraphrase, happiness comes from
having a loving, open heart.
Rabbi Strassfeld also is the author of
A Night of Questions: A Passover
Haggadah, co-edited with his wife
Rabbi Joy Levitt, and The Jewish
Holidays: A Guide and Commentary.
Like those books, A Book ofLifi can be
a good introductory text, but there's also
much in it for those already involved in
Jewish life, who might find new inroads
toward holiness, new ways to turn rote
routines meaningful again.
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