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Category Archives: Aryeh Ben David
Rabbi Aryeh Ben David On God, Prayer And The Good Life
He wrote The Godfile: 10 Approaches to Personalizing Prayer (a book I read twice in a week instead of praying at shul). We did this interview via email: LF: What do you mean by this: "Everything that is true (vertically) … Continue reading
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Tagged adin, aryeh, close connection, empirical proof, lf, personal prayer, personality, physic, rabbi, rav, Relationships, rsquo, shabbat, siddur, something concrete, spiritual relationship, Spirituality, wit
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Philosophy of Spiritual Education
By Aryeh Ben David "For education to be truly effective it has to penetrate into the depths of the soul of the student." The Disconnectedness of Standard Jewish Education In my opinion there is a serious problem in Jewish Education … Continue reading
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Tagged abraham, aish kodesh, approach work, aryeh, cynicism, hassidic masters, jewish education, judging others, knowledgeable educators, pedagogy, personal relevance, quot, rav kook, safe space, spiritual education, supportive environment, talmud, vilna gaon, wisdom of the kabbalah, yeshivot
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Spiritual Education According to the Kabbalah: The Inner Voice of Rav Kook
By Aryeh Ben David "The perpetual prayer of the soul continually tries to emerge from its latent state to become revealed and actualized, to permeate every fiber of life of the entire universe . . . Sudden spiritual clarity comes … Continue reading
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Tagged aryeh, bouts, depression, emptiness, inner voice, intuition, Kabbalah, latent state, lightning bolt, lightning bolts, mystical secrets, perpetual prayer, prayer book, prayer of the soul, rav kook, spiritual clarity, spiritual education, sudden clarity, uniqueness, voice of the soul
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Jewish Spirituality
I have close to zero interest in spirituality, prayer and developing a relationship with G-d (if I want to feel the transcendent, I just listen to a good pop song). About the only rabbi who made any sense to me … Continue reading
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Tagged calm, Clothes, finley, jewish spirituality, mordecai, nirvana, participants, peace, pop song, Prayer, rabbi, relationship, serenity, spiritual beings, spiritual person, stereotype, stereotypes, Torah, Yoga
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Creating A Relationship With God
Over Shabbat, I read a good book The Godfile: 10 Approaches to Personalizing Prayer by Aryeh Ben David. He writes on page nine: Many of us walk into a synagogue with the expectation that a spiritual experience will descend upon … Continue reading
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Tagged aryeh, distractions, expectation, prayer book, prayerbook, relationship with god, shabbat, spiritual connection, spiritual experience, spiritual feelings, Synagogue, Truth
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