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Daroma: Temple of One 5786 Winter Practice Season
As winter descends with its long darker nights and following a long season of collective pain and uncertainty, I invite you to Daroma: Temple of One 5786 Winter Practice Season. Ten weeks of online fellowship, practice, and learning, guided by the fierce wisdom of the Kotzker Rebbe and rooted in the teaching of כולא קמיה כלא חשיב (“before the Infinite, all is unthought / as nothing”) — echoed in Zohar, Tanya, and the Kotzker’s own fire. We’ll explore the tension and freedom between ache, restraint, and release through texts on consciousness, grief, and the non-duality in meditation & prayer. We’ll gather weekly on Saturday nights (including Havdalah), through Hanukkah and emerging on Tu Bishvat — with occasional pop-up sessions.
The Jewish Monastic Project, A Concept Paper
Home-leaving, Beyond Nazir, Queering Normativity, and the Jewish Monastery
Kaijun’s Bones
Kaijun, an 84-year-young nun at Zen Mountain Monastery who passed away in March 2014, shared her brief insight on renunciation and celibacy.
Nazir: Temple of One, An Introduction
Heeding the Call of the Jewish Monastic Impulse. Jewish monastics’ role in ancestral trauma healing, and monasticism as a universal expression of a human inclination.