Below are the best articles we could find featuring zalman schachter shalomi about jewish renewal.
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My inner work involves a mystical form of Judaism called Kabbalah. As part of that work, I do a nightly examination of conscience. I ask myself: What was this day all about? What did I do? How did I feel? How did I relate to people?
Patheos spoke to Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi recently on how he sees the evolution of Judaism over the past one hundred years and what he foresees for the next one hundred years.
The legendary rabbi talks about free love, doing LSD with Timothy Leary, and mortality in a new book, The December Project.
Reb Zalman's exposure to Eastern religion, medieval Christian mysticism and LSD—he had the first of a handful of hallucinogenic experiences in 1962, under Leary’s tutelage—helped him formulate some of the innovations he brought to contemporary Jewish practice.
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