The Way of Flame: A Guide to the Forgotten Mystical Tradition of Jewish Meditation

by Avram Davis

Book Overview

This powerful guide to Jewish meditation incorporates philosophy and story with ideas for daily living, including suggestions for setting up your own meditative practice, and invites you to wander an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060617527
• ISBN13: 9780060617523
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: HarperOne
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A true masterwork

Way of Flame is the perfect starting point for any student interested in Jewish Meditation. Sophisticated yet accessible, this book is truly a masterwork of contemporary writing on Jewish spirituality. It's destined to become a classic. -- G. Sterling, San Francisco

The Definitive Jewish Meditation text by a living master

Truly a monumentous book on Jewish Meditation defining the landscape and language of the Jewish Mystics and giving practical how-to instructions to begin Jewish meditation. By a true master, an organizer and a wonderful teacher. He is single handedly reshaping the world of Jewish Meditation. Disguised as an introductory book on Jewish meditation, this book has many levels of understanding capable of taking the serious student to many wonderous places. Crafted with a simple approach. Like a simple candle flame which on closer inspection reveals many layers and complexities of flame. All beautifully interwoven into one. All blessings to this Holy Teacher.

a brilliant and essential primer on the path to judaism

Davis has no peer in the realm of reflective mystical judaica for contemporary readers. because of the intensely autobiographical nature of his divagations, the integrity of the work puts it precisely in the tradition of the young soren kierkegaard, oswald spengler and schopenhauer. davis is likely to be thought of as the spinoza of the late 20th century, and with good reason: he has probed comparative ethics with a groundbase, and groundbreaking desire to render the context of judaism accessible to those who have perhaps fled from the contradictory upheavals of contemporary spirituality. what davis does is to reign in on the urgings and injunctions of mystical tradition and make them speak to all of us. his profound knowledge of the linguistic and rabbincal subtexts, and the ease and candor of his approach, make for intoxicating and joyous reading. i think this book will be remembered as a classic. michael tobias