44 min
Meditation
A Daily Sit
One of the Institute's daily sessions: a short teaching and then forty minutes of sitting together.
About the teacher
Jay Michaelson
American rabbi, writer and scholar (born 1971) who teaches Jewish meditation and vipassana and writes about mysticism, law and religion. He is a visiting scholar at the Emory Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality, was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in 2025, and won a National Jewish Book Award for scholarship in 2023.
Upcoming events
Meet Jay Michaelson in person.
Talks, day programmes and retreats currently listed in the Paths Are Many calendar.
Talks & videos
Watch before you attend.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this teacher in their own words.
29 min
Talk
Polytheism and Nonduality
A lecture on holding the many gods of the tradition and its one ground at the same time.
52 min
Talk
Evolving Dharma
On his book about what happens to Buddhist practice once it leaves the monastery.
83 min
Interview
Mysticism or Meditation?
A long conversation on where Jewish mysticism and Buddhist practice meet, and where they do not.
Path
The wider context.
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Concealment & the hidden light
Kabbalah
The Jewish mystical tradition centred on hidden dimensions of scripture and the nature of the divine, often explored through symbolic systems such as the Tree of Life.
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