At last, a fresh take on meditation that draws on life experience and living life with greater clarity rather than the traditional method of rigorous study.

The Awakened Heart Project is happy to be offering copies of Jewish Meditation Practices for Everyday Life as a gift to support your practice.

It currently costs us $15 to send each copy of the book. We ask for $5 to support the costs of shipping and handling and we greatly appreciate any donation beyond that to support the continuation this work. Click here to order your copy of Jewish Meditation Practices for Everyday Life from the Awakened Heart Project.

Or click here to read more about Rabbi Jeff Roth’s new book.

We’re proud to announce that Rabbi Jeff Roth’s book, Jewish Meditation Practices for Everyday Life: Awakening Your Heart, Connecting with God, will be available this March for $18.99 on Jewish Lights’ website.

Rabbi Jeff will be promoting the new book and signing copies this Spring and Summer in the San Francisco Bay area, Southern California, the Pacific Northwest, Baltimore & Washington, NYC, Boston, North Hampton, Florida, Boulder Phoenix and Tuscon.

If your interested in having Rabbi Jeff Roth come to your community please let us know!

When we awaken to our own light, it becomes possible to develop real wisdom about our life. As wisdom allows us to see clearly, our hearts break open with compassion for the struggles of our own lives and the lives of all beings. Awakened with wisdom and compassion, we are impelled to live our lives with kindness, and we are led to do whatever we can to repair the brokenness of our world.

—from the Introduction to Jewish Meditation Practices for Everyday Life: Awakening Your Heart, Connecting with God

The Awakened Heart Project is sad to announce the death of one of the great Jewish meditation teachers of our time. Rabbi Alan Lew’s teachings were infused with integrity, humor and insight. As a Jewish leader, a spiritual teacher and a friend he is and will be dearly missed.

Dear Friend of The Awakened Heart Project,

We at The Awakened Heart Project very much appreciate your interest, and for some, your generous support over the past two years.

At this time we are asking you to consider the The Awakened Heart Project in your annual giving plans. As you know, you will be joining with other like-minded people, pooling your charitable dollars and magnifying their impact. The Awakened Heart Project will use this money to develop and promote the practice of mindful awareness and meditation across the Jewish world in the service of waking the heart of wisdom, compassion and kindness in all those who come to this practice. Click here to donate now.

Our collective funds support The Awakened Heart Project as a planning organization to create Jewish meditation retreats around the world, partnering with local efforts to promote meditation in the creation of these retreats.

In addition, your generosity allows us to sponsor a web site where teachings will be freely available, as well as a calendar of retreats where this practice can be experienced and fostered.

We are also excited to tell you that a new book by Jeff Roth, “Jewish Meditation Practices for Everyday Life”, will be published by Jewish Lights Publishing in March 2009. Plus we will be ending our second year with a month-long retreat, an opportunity unique in the Jewish World.

In the Spring, Jeff will embark on a nationwide book tour – traveling to nearly 25 cities – to promote Jewish meditation. We will use this book tour as an opportunity to introduce contemplative Judaism to dozens of congregations.

As a tax-exempt organization, your donation is tax deductible. Please consider making a monthly gift that we can charge to your credit card. Click here to donate now to The Awakened Heart Project for a Contemplative Judaism.

With your gift of $18, $36, $360, or more, you will become a co-creator of this unique organization that supports the cultivation of an awakened heart, which can lead to a living with greater joy, dedicated to improving the lives of all beings, manifestations of the Divine.

Sincerely, and for all of us here at The Awakened Heart Project,

Jeff Roth & Brian Arnell

We’re proud to announce that the first Jewish Meditation video is now available on our website. The talk features Rabbi Joanna Katz teaching about her experiences with patience and self acceptance.

Enjoy!

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AwakenedHeartProject.org is receiving some extra love and attention! During the month of November as we celebrate our 2nd birthday we’ll be rolling out some new site features and improvements.

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