One of the Institute's daily sessions: a short teaching and then forty minutes of sitting together.
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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.
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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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