Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide

Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide
by Aryeh Kaplan

Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide
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Author: Aryeh Kaplan
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1995-03-14
ISBN: 0805210377
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Schocken
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Book Review: Charming but flawed
Summary: 4 Stars

Aryeh Kaplan's book Jewish Meditation is much beloved, and for some very good reasons. It is accessible and well written, sensitive and attuned to a modern religious sensibility. When a reader puts it down, there is the feeling that he or she has read something profound and moving.

But there are some problems with his approach. Kaplan seems to stretch the importance of meditation in many portions of this book, attributing it to figures in Jewish history who probably did not meditate, at least in our modern sense in the word. In this way, Kaplan tends to take his definition of meditation and impose it on a wide swatch of Jewish history: and this defies historical logic.

There is also the sense that Kaplan is trying to graft a concept onto Judaism that perhaps is an imperfect fit. Meditation as he conceives it is overwhelmingly Eastern/Asian. For instance, he stresses that when one mediates on an object, like a tree or stone, one should not venerate it, since that would be idolatry. Kaplan can feel the disjuncture between the two concepts: normative Judaism and his ideas of mediation, and in passages such as these, he shows their lack of compatibility.

Still, the book is a novel and interesting way to incorporate mediation into Jewish life. Even though it has some deep conceptual and historical problems, it is a book with its own charms and merits.

Summary of Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide

Kaplan shows that meditation is consistent with traditional Jewish thought and practice. The book presents a variety of meditative techniques to help make the reader a better person, and develop a closer relationship to God.

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