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From Tiberias With Love is a journey to rediscovering the magic and mystery, the intimacy and depth of a lost moment in the history of a remarkably relevant conscious community in the Galilee that still has much to teach us. In the year 1777, a group of spiritual seekers from Eastern European set sail in search of a promised land, far away from the internal and external conflicts plaguing those souls seeking the infinite within this finite world. Some who set sail identified with the burgeoning Jewish spiritual renewal movement of hasidism, while others seem to have just come along for the ride. Weathering challenges both socio-economic and geographic, this emigrating group sought to establish a center for a burgeoning hasidic ethos that would radiate to the Diaspora from its renewed center in the Holy Land in Palestine. Tiberean Hasidism provides a model of an intensive contemplative life that is particularly appealing to contemporary spiritual seekers for many reasons, including: its deep focus on mystical theology; devotional practice; and the ecstasy of deep friendship rather than allegiance to an institutionalized religion. This neglected field of spiritual life remains ripe for excavation, with great insight and inspiration ahead as in the unfolding of this project. The theology, devotion, and social structure offer an authentic roadmap to future contemplative pathways ripe for our age.

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Aubrey L. Glazer holds a B.A. in French Language and Literature (University of Toronto, 1994), an M.A. in Jewish Philosophy (Jewish Theological Seminary Graduate School), and a Ph.D. in Hebrew Hermeneutics (University of Toronto, 2005) and received rabbinic ordination (Jewish Theological Seminary, 2000). His most recent books include: A New Physiognomy of Jewish Thinking: Critical Theory After Adorno as Applied to Jewish Thought, (Continuum, 2011) and Contemporary Hebrew Mystical Poetry: How It Redeems Jewish Thinking, (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009). His other scholarly studies have been published in: Hebrew Studies: A Journal Devoted to Hebrew Language and Literature; Kabbalah: A Journal for the Study of Mystical Texts; God's Voice From the Void: Old & New Studies in Bratzlav Hasidism; Ariel: The Israeli Review of Arts and Letters, and Jerusalem International Poets Festival Anthology. Nehemia Polen, professor of Jewish Thought and director of the Hasidic Text Institute at Hebrew College, is a leading expert in Hasidism and Jewish thought. His most recent book, an edited and annotated translation of Malkah Shapiro's memoir, The Rebbe's Daughter: Memoir of a Hasidic Childhood (2002), received the 2002 National Jewish Book Award. A frequent and popular lecturer, Dr. Polen speaks on such topics as Jewish mysticism, Hasidism, Jewish prayer, the rhythm of the Jewish calendar and the Hebrew Bible. He received rabbinic ordination from Ner Israel Rabbinical College, and a PhD from Boston University, where he studied with Elie Wiesel.

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