Living in Divine Space: Kabbalah and Meditation
What is authentic Jewish meditation? This short video presentation explains how the six continuous commandments in the Torah can be meditated upon as constructing a...
Category : Living in Divine Space
Part 1: Introduction Three Levels of Meditation
In a public address in Tamuz 5739 (the summer of 1979), the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, discussed the need to develop a form of...
Living in Divine Space: Part 5 – Meditation The Soul and Reality
The mind is the interface between the soul and reality. All of us are constantly being bombarded with stimuli and sensations from the outside world,...
Living in Divine Space: Part 4 – With All My Heart I Seek You
(Psalms 119:10) Seeking God with all our hearts is the essence of Jewish meditation. The objective of Judaism in general, and that of Jewish meditation...
Living in Divine Space: Part 3 – Music and Breathing
In addition to its spiritual content, meditation is enhanced by a number of accompanying practices. First and foremost of these is music. Throughout Jewish history,...
Living in Divine Space: Meditation – Building
The word for "meditation" in Hebrew is hitbonenut, related to the verbal root "to build." Once the mental structure has been built and the concepts are...
Living in Divine Space: Shielding the Mind from Foreign Thoughts
To the rear is the commandment: And you shall not stray after your heart and after your eyes…. (Numbers 15:39) This is the mitzvah of guarding one's mind from...
Living in Divine Space: The Love for G-d
To the right is the commandment: And you shall love G-d your G-d with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might...
Living in Divine Space: The Belief in G-d's Absolute Unity
To the front is the commandment: Hear O Israel, G-d is our G-d, G-d is one (Deuteronomy 6:4). Here, one is to contemplate the absolute unity of...
Living in Divine Space: Belief in G-d's Existence and Providence
Above is the commandment: I am G-d, your G-d, who has taken you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves (Exodus 20:2)....
