God Was in This Place & I, i Did Not Know: Finding Self, Spirituality and Ultimate Meaning (Kushner)
by By Kushner, Lawrence
Category: Religion , Devotional

Selected as a Union of American Hebrew                 Congregations (UAHC) “Significant Jewish                 Book”                Jacob was running away from home. One                 night he lay down in the wilderness to sleep and had one of the                 great mystical experiences of Western religion. He dreamed                 there was a ladder, with angels ascending and descending,                 stretched between heaven and earth. For thousands of years,                 people have tried to overhear what the messengers came down to                 tell Jacob, and us.              Now in a daring blend of scholarship and                 imagination, psychology and history, Lawrence Kushner gathers                 an inspiring range of interpretations of Genesis 28:16 given by                 sages, from Shmuel bar Nachmani in third-century Palestine to                 Hannah Rachel Werbermacher of Ludomir who lived in Poland two                 hundred years ago. Through a fascinating new literary genre and                 Kushner’s creative reconstruction of the teachers’                 lives and times, we enter the study halls and sit at the feet                 of these spiritual masters to learn what each discovered about                 God’s Self and ourselves as they ascend and descend                 Jacob’s ladder.              In this illuminating journey, our                 spiritual guides ask and answer the fundamental questions of                 human experience: Who am I? Who is God? What is God’s                 role in history? What is the nature of evil? How should I                 relate to God and other people? Could the universe really have                 a self?              Rabbi Lawrence Kushner brilliantly                 reclaims a millennium of Jewish spirituality for contemporary                 seekers of all faiths and backgrounds. God Was in This Place & I, i Did Not Know is about God and about you; it is about                 discovering God’s place in the universe, and yours.