Stalking Elijah
Subtitle: adventures with today's Jewish mystical masters
By: Rodger Kamenetz.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Published: 1997
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: Judaism -- United States; Mysticism -- Judaism; Mystics -- United States -- Biography
Description: Profound and often raucously funny, Kamenetz's quirky tale carries him from a conversation with the Dalai Lama (in which he valiantly "contravened forty-six years of my own noisy cultural conditioning" to keep from stepping on the silence) to breaking matzah with him a year later at a Passover seder for Tibetan freedom.

Along the way he learns kabbalah poolside at the Beverly Hilton, meditates in a T-shirt shop with Baton Rouge's three resident Tibetan Buddhists, observes the Sabbath in a plastic tent with Jewish addicts and cons in an inter-city slum, and "calls out" to God with new-Hasidic abandon while racing down the San Bernadino freeway. Stalking Elijah teaches at every step of the path how to celebrate the Jewish tradition in the context of feminism, contemporary science, and interfaith dialogue.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-366).