A LIBRARIAN’S ORIENTATION
What this book explores
Jay Michaelson brings Jewish texts and mystical ideas into conversation with mindfulness and embodied practice, exploring eating, sexuality, movement, breath, and physical awareness as possible sites of spiritual life. The book resists treating the body as an obstacle to holiness.
EDITORIAL NOTE
Why it’s in the Library
It widens the embodiment shelf beyond secular somatics and Christian practice while giving travelers a substantial Jewish-centered account of bodily spirituality. It also models how inherited sources can be reread through contemporary contemplative experience.
Good starting place if…
You want to explore embodied spirituality through Jewish mystical sources or are interested in how mindfulness and religious tradition can meet in ordinary physical life.
Know before you begin…
This is Michaelson's contemporary synthesis of Jewish sources, Kabbalah, mindfulness, and other contemplative influences; it should not be mistaken for a consensus account of Judaism or Kabbalah.