Kamenetz, a poet and a Jew, was invited to attend and write about a historical meeting between a delegation of American Jews and a group of Tibetan Buddhists that included the Dalai Lama. This interfaith get-together was inspired, in part, by the increasing number of Jews who have become Buddhists as well as the Dalai Lama's perception of Jews as ...
"A book for anyone who feels the narrowness of a wholly secular life or who wonders about the fate of esoteric spiritual traditions in a world that seems bent on destroying or vulgarizing them".--New York Times Book Review.
A third of our time on earth is spent sleeping. Yet our dreams, if remembered at all, have been relegated to nothing more than curious anecdotes. When Freud, a century ago, awakened modern interest in the dream, his theory of interpretation undermined the potential insights dreams had to offer. For Freud, dreams are nothing more than fragmented ...
Winner of the 1997 National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Thought, "Stalking Elijah" traces Rodger Kamenetz's rollicking and profound cross-country journey in search of the great teachers revitalizing Judaism today.
In lyrical prose that is devoid of sentimentality, but rich with humor and insight, Rodger Kamenetz gives readers a candid and illuminating account of the difficult passage he made understanding himself as a man, a writer, and a son.
As dismissal and disdain of Jews speak through the art of some 20th-century poets, so the poetry of Rodger Kamenetz answers, framing in subtle terms the questions that haunt our culture - about the voices through which culture speaks, and about the identity of poet and poetry.
The highly acclaimed author of "The Jew in the Lotus" turns his attention to his own rich and diverse tradition to understand what it means to live spiritually as a Jew. Whether exploring the old tradition for its meditative silence or hearing the new Kabbalah being created by today's women, whether welcoming the sabbath bride with Jewish drug ...
These are emotionally powerful poems that speak to the condition of midlife, of being in the narrow place, stuck between the present and the future, between the demands of work and family, between the hope for joy and the desolation of loss. The pain of broken marriage, the tragedy of daily life, the struggle for identity, and the self-doubt of ...
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