Torah-Veda

An Interspiritual Journey
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WELCOME TO TORAH-VEDA

Torah and Veda are two ancient sources of spirituality still vibrant today. Torah is conveyed through the sacred language of Hebrew and Veda is conveyed through the sacred language of Sanskrit. The focus here is on meditation, mysticism, philosophy, psychology and the underlying spirituality that has been incorporated into religions, and not as much on the religions themselves. Your comments and posts are welcome.


Quote of the Week 419 - Listend/Hearing for Non-material Sustenance

Quote of the Week 419 - Listening/Hearing for Non-material Sustenance


Every one who is thirsty, come and drink. He who has no money, come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good. Let your soul delight in abundance. Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, that your soul will live…


--Isaiah 55:1-3, The Living Torah translation by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan

CURRENT TEACHING SESSIONS




Interfaith/Inter-Spiritual Contemplative Groups


Please check out the following, which is an ongoing activity that may be of interest:


https://www.zgatl.org/contemplative-group.html


https://www.zgatl.org/ongoing-groups.html


http://www.interfaithci.org/contemplative.html


https://faithallianceofmetroatlanta.org/recent-events/programs-events/ongoing-programs/











Monday, June 24, 2013

Quote of the Week 273 - The Faith of Staying


The Zen student, the poet, the husband, the wife – none knows with certainty what he or she is staying for, but all know the likelihood that they will be staying “a while”: to find out what they are staying for. And it is the faith of all these disciplines that they will not stay to find out that they should not have stayed.

--Wendell Berry

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Quote of the Week 272 - The Need for a New Translation


We need to clear out centuries of negative connotations of Hebraic words in the Torah text whose alternatively correct translations bespeak a more positive and healing voice than the voice we have been reared with. It is long overdue that we re-translate our Torah to reflect the root translations of words that have been taken so far out of context that it has rendered so much of this sacred and enriching ancient body of wisdom cold and intimidating.

--Rabbi Gershon Winkler

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Quote of the Week 271 - Healing the Troubled Mind


The one field where Science and Religion do overlap is in that branch of Psychology generally known as Transpersonal Psychology. This is manifest particularly in the work of Roberto Assagioli, Viktor Frankl and Erich Fromm in the Jewish tradition, together with that of Carl Jung in the Christian tradition. These pioneers have demonstrated that healing of the troubled mind demands a spiritual understanding.

--Bill Heilbronn, from The Courage of Uncertainty; A Jewish View of the Continuing Evolution of Faith in the Fields of Religion and Science