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God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness and Embodied Spiritual Practice
by Jay Michaelson
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing (2006-11-30)
ISBN: 158023304X
EAN: 9781580233040
Dewy Decimal #: 296.7
Paperback: 247 pages
SKU: 080403008
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: This First Printing copy is in excellent condition. No visible markings, highlights, underlining, tears to text. Tight spine. No Dust Jacket. Clean Soft Cover with very light shelf wear. Great spiritual copy worth having at an affordable price. (L8-21)
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Your body is the place where heaven and earth meet. The greatest spiritual achievement is not transcending the body but joining body and spirit together. But to do this, you must break through assumptions that draw boundaries around the Infinite and wake up to the body as the site of holiness itself. This groundbreaking book is the first comprehensive treatment of the body in Jewish spiritual practice and an essential guide to the sacred. With meditation practices, physical exercises, visualizations, and sacred text, you will learn how to experience the presence of the Divine in, and through, your body. And by cultivating an embodied spiritual practice, you will transform everyday activities--eating, walking, breathing, washing--into moments of deep spiritual realization, uniting sacred and sensual, mystical and mundane.
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Customer Reviews
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I've never reviewed anything before
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-01-24
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
I have never reviewed anything before, but for this book I will. I found this book to be extremely helpful. My therapist and I are using it to deal with some difficult issues, and each chapter makes the discussion so much easier. I'm looking at my life, my body and my health with new eyes.
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Wherever We Let Him In
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-06-06
10 out of 10 customers found this reveiw helpful
A beautifully-written perspective on the holiness of whole-ness. As a martial artist and teacher of the arts, as well as a Torah-committed Jew, I am inspired by the author's call to see beyond the body-mind schism and embrace a view that transcends East vs. West. Since there is One Creator, it stands to reason and faith that each of us, body-mind-soul, should be testament to His Oneness. I read this book joyfully and often pick it up and open to random sections to read and reexperience that joy. A treasure.
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Body and Mind in Judaism
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-12-27
14 out of 15 customers found this reveiw helpful
For years I have been involved in physical things, tai chi, jogging, basketball, baseball, and then as I got into more "spiritual things" the dichotomy emerged; mind and body are two oppossing forces. Try as we may many taught, we must overcome the body to reach the spiritual. My interest in Judaism as I matured caused me to explore that in fact there are many physical pathways to Jewish spiritual practices. Yet I never could find an explanantion that satisfied me. Well this book does so. First off the author is a very wise and thoughtful writer. There is brilliance here and throughout the author writes from experience both in learning (which many Jewish books in my opinion lack nowdays) and also his own life learning from meditation and body work (he appears to have done yoga nd much more). What I learned from this book is that the physical mitzvot and commandments are deep spiritual teachings and they compliment the theory which many readers may have read or learned about. There is a humility here as well as he asks the reader to experience for themselves doing, learning and then knowing when one eats, prays, breaths, loves and walks (and after all Jewish law, Halacha is a way of walking to and with G-d). I do not agree w/ everything the author writes but so what. I learned an incredible amount and he opened my eys to new ways of being and experiencing the Jewish pathway. If a book does that then it surely is a valuable friend. I am thankful for this book and Jay Michaelson hopefully will share some more of his wisdom in the future.
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