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FRI, OCT 5, 6:25 PM
You and your family are invited to a very special Shabbat with Rabbi Gabriel Cousens. Gather together as one, experience the joyful pleasure of God, and be in prayer and song during this time of transformation of all humanity.
FREE and Open to All, registration requested.
Co-Hosted by JCC East Bay and Jewish Federation of the East Bay.
SAT, OCT 6, 2:15 pm
$10 Pre-Registration, $8 Additional for Organic, Vegan, Live-Food Third Meal (Seudah Shlishi)
Join Rabbi Gabriel Cousens, author of Torah as a Guide to Enlightenment, in spiritual reflection. Truly celebrate the day of renewal and rest in this Shabbat afternoon celebration of the merging of the Heavens (Shamayim) and Earth (Adamah). Dr. Cousens shares teaching with a particular emphasis on ecological kashrut and the kabbalistic Etz Haim (Tree of Life).
The program will be shomer Shabbat and include a lecture, Q&A, meditation, chanting with Cantor Richard Kaplan, and Eco-Kosher Vegan-Live Shabbat Third Meal. (Bringing your own plate for the meal is encouraged to minimize waste - Bal Tashchit - please).
Pre-signed copies of Torah as a Guide to Enlightenment will be available. Pre-ordering of book from Amazon and other sources may be recommended for Jewish Shabbat observance.
Afternoon program followed by sacred Jewish singing and chanting, Havdallah meditation, and a teaching on the weekly Torah portion.
Co-Hosted by JCC East Bay and Jewish Federation of the East Bay.
SAT, OCT 6, 5:15 PM
FREE and open to all, registration requested
Welcome the new week with Havdallah meditation, teaching on
the weekly Torah portion, and the sacred Jewish start-of-the-week ceremony.
Co-hosted by JCC East Bay and Jewish Federation of the East Bay
About Torah As a Guide to Enlightenment
Praise:
"For years, as a Jewish woman, I have been seeking the doorway to Enlightenment through Judaism. And here, Torah As a Guide to Enlightenment has brought the life and soul back, and dramatically touched my essence. Torah as a Guide to Enlightenment is a God-inspired door opener."
- Trudy Green, manager of Aerosmith and Michael Jackson
"Jews and Torah have a symbiotic relationship: the life of one depends on the life of the other. For far too long Torah has been on life support because the Jews have been on life support. Rabbi Gabriel Cousens is about to revive the latter by resuscitating the former. His Torah As a Guide to Enlightenment reveals a level of Torah wisdom that few contemporary Jews know exits, and when they do, there is hope that they will achieve the very enlightenment Rabbi Cousens and Torah promise them."
- Rabbi Rami Shapiro, author of Tanya, the Masterpiece of Hasidic Wisdom
Synopsis:
Inspired by intense studies, meditation, and a variety of teachings from the great Torah sages, best-selling author Gabriel Cousens, MD, presents the fifty-two parashas of the Torah as a practical path to liberation. His interpretation, which focuses on enlightenment, what he feels is the original intention of the Torah, provides a multidimensional analysis and a perspective that is often missing from conventional teachings. Torah as a Guide to Enlightenment conveys liberation understandings not only to those with Jewish backgrounds, but also to anyone seeking to reconnect with their spiritual roots.
About Rabbi Gabriel Cousens:
Rabbi Gabriel Cousens, MD, teaches 3 months of every year in Yisrael, and also directs the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center and Tree of Life Foundation in Arizona. He is a spiritual teacher and is also recognized as a leading natural health physician, serving as a Physician of the Soul, on five continents yearly. He has studied Torah and Kabbalistic texts intensely under several orthodox rabbis since the age of forty-nine in 1993. In 2008 he officially completed twelve years of rabbinical training and received smicha as a rabbi. He is the author of Torah as a Guide to Enlightenment and six other well-known books including Creating Peace by Being Peace, Spiritual Nutrition, and There Is a Cure for Diabetes. The Tree of Life Foundation currently trains people on all levels of body, mind, and soul for spiritual world service.
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