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Shefa Gold is an American rabbi and scholar, a leader in ALEPH: the Alliance for Jewish Renewal, and the director of C-DEEP, the Center for Devotional, Energy, and Ecstatic Practice in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. She is a noted teacher of chanting, Jewish mysticism, Jewish prayer, and spirituality, and she leads workshops and retreats on chanting, devotional healing, spiritual community-building, and meditation.

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Jewish Renewal

A growing movement within American Judaism recalls the tendency in most faiths for worshippers over the years to move back and forth between the head and the heart — theology and doctrine on one side, spiritual fervor on the other.

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PBS.org
2005
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A Chant Encounter with God

“I think I remember you. You were the weird one.” That, according to Rabbi Shefa Gold, was what one of the first people to “teach me that Judaism could be a path with passion, because he had such passion” said when she encountered him again at a conference years later.

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Joanne Palmer
2013
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Shefa Gold: The Joy of Hebrew Chant

Rabbi Shefa Gold thought she was inventing the practice of Hebrew chant back in the 1980s. Before entering rabbinical school late in that decade she had been a musician fascinated by the power of music to open hearts and bring listeners to a place of connection.

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Ann Byle
2013
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At a Retreat, a Zen Monk Plants the Seeds of Peace

First came the clear, resonant sound of the bell, a shining brass bowl held delicately on the fingertips of a Buddhist nun.

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Peter Steinfels
1993
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With Shruti Boxes and Drums, Practitioners Chanting Their Way into Judaism

In a darkened room at a synagogue affiliated with the Jewish Renewal movement, 20 women gather by candlelight for Rabbi Shefa Gold’s monthly Jewish chant circle.

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Ben Harris
2010
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