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… Place Your Ad Today. Call 354-6060 diation. Moreover, because of the nature of the Hebrew language as well as the Jewish concept of God, meditative techniques quite often consisted of a combination of…
… mantric chant and various de- grees of contemplation similar to yet highly distinct from prayer. Furthermore, prior to the fall of the second Temple, over a mil- lion people in Israel were involved in such…
… activity. Indeed, there were hundreds of academies that taught an array of highly disci- plined schools of meditation. The goal of such practice was con- sciousness alteration enabling one to arrive at a…
… level of recep- tivity to clear visions as well as the energy to act upon them. A proper teacher can guide a student through various levels of mantic chant requiring a sensi- tivity for the rhythm and the…
… sound of various types of Hebrew texts. The advantage of mediation is its emphasis on discipline and mechanics, not worthiness. One Shabbat Matot-Mass'ei: Numbers 30:2-36:13 Numbers 28:9-15 Jeremiah 2…
…:4-28 Jeremiah 3:4. need not feel inadequate about not "understanding" word mean- ings. The technique is referred to as "the ladder," one of four rungs corresponding to what the Ka- ballists identify as the 'four…