Shalom y'all from Elat Chayyim, now at www.jewishretreatcenter.org (oh the demand for the address was incredible! Not really.)
For those who knew my potential plans, I'm not staying as part of the fellowship at EC for the year. I'm going to the transdenom Jewish college in my area. But I probably will be coming back here for some holidays and other events and I may do the fellowship at a later time. I won't be responding to this post before August 23rd or quite possibly 24th or 25th, the 23rd being when when I head home. But I wanted to give this site a quick glimpse and further, I felt some desire to say something about my experiences, given that I didn't have the outlet a blog would have supplied, no hard feelings Brian, only soft ones, much like pudding, and not that lumpy kind you guys eat in England but the mushy, melty, formless goo we shovel into our mouths on this side of the pond.
I don't think I've finished digesting yet, maybe after Simchas Torah, so there's only so much I can say. Perhaps it would be best to string a number of words and phrases together, in insignificant succession: love, heart, integral, holistic, holon, Ken Wilber, zafu, meditation, inner, connection, healing, Torah, mamish, light, breath, niggun, joy, mamish joy, exhale, inhale, mindfulness, , hallelu Yah, simcha, we are opening up in sweet surrender to the luminous lovelight of the one, neo-hasidut, Rav Kook, the Izbitzer, community, my Torah, creativity, unfolding, emunah, deep ecumenism, syncretism, psychohalachah, song, Baruch atah Yah, Gaia, Ein Od Milvado Hashem Hu HaElohim, Mother carry me, Rachamim, renewal, ecstacy, devekut, caring, deep listening, tikkun hanefesh, tikkun olam, responsibility, growth.
Ahhhhhh. Better. Reb Nachman of Bratslav says that a sigh in itself is a deep and powerful prayer. Sometimes I let something out and I feel I have to offer one of those prayers, or a few of them. So that "ahhhhh" is really just me attempting to put it into type. I think I'm going to stop there. A new retreat each week, a new teacher, it's a lot. And the teachings, they're all a jumble right now. What I'm feeling most is the effects of living in a spiritual community; very open, more keyed into relating than before. I had a very powerful interaction with someone very close to me that hasn't ended, that couldn't have happened had something not first changed inside me. Baruch Hashem there is a place like this, and many places like this for all the different communities of the world.
Shalom uvracha
peace and blessings,
Dauer
For those who knew my potential plans, I'm not staying as part of the fellowship at EC for the year. I'm going to the transdenom Jewish college in my area. But I probably will be coming back here for some holidays and other events and I may do the fellowship at a later time. I won't be responding to this post before August 23rd or quite possibly 24th or 25th, the 23rd being when when I head home. But I wanted to give this site a quick glimpse and further, I felt some desire to say something about my experiences, given that I didn't have the outlet a blog would have supplied, no hard feelings Brian, only soft ones, much like pudding, and not that lumpy kind you guys eat in England but the mushy, melty, formless goo we shovel into our mouths on this side of the pond.
I don't think I've finished digesting yet, maybe after Simchas Torah, so there's only so much I can say. Perhaps it would be best to string a number of words and phrases together, in insignificant succession: love, heart, integral, holistic, holon, Ken Wilber, zafu, meditation, inner, connection, healing, Torah, mamish, light, breath, niggun, joy, mamish joy, exhale, inhale, mindfulness, , hallelu Yah, simcha, we are opening up in sweet surrender to the luminous lovelight of the one, neo-hasidut, Rav Kook, the Izbitzer, community, my Torah, creativity, unfolding, emunah, deep ecumenism, syncretism, psychohalachah, song, Baruch atah Yah, Gaia, Ein Od Milvado Hashem Hu HaElohim, Mother carry me, Rachamim, renewal, ecstacy, devekut, caring, deep listening, tikkun hanefesh, tikkun olam, responsibility, growth.
Ahhhhhh. Better. Reb Nachman of Bratslav says that a sigh in itself is a deep and powerful prayer. Sometimes I let something out and I feel I have to offer one of those prayers, or a few of them. So that "ahhhhh" is really just me attempting to put it into type. I think I'm going to stop there. A new retreat each week, a new teacher, it's a lot. And the teachings, they're all a jumble right now. What I'm feeling most is the effects of living in a spiritual community; very open, more keyed into relating than before. I had a very powerful interaction with someone very close to me that hasn't ended, that couldn't have happened had something not first changed inside me. Baruch Hashem there is a place like this, and many places like this for all the different communities of the world.
Shalom uvracha
peace and blessings,
Dauer
