Torah of Awakening
Brian Yosef Schachter-Brooks
Mondays, 7:30 – 9:30pm
Location: Chochmat HaLev
Free for all participants; Donation accepted
Awakening is the experiential realization that you are infinitely more than the sum of your thoughts and feelings. Beneath the personality there is a radiant field of awareness, free from negativity and connected to the aliveness of the present moment.
Brian Yosef Schachter-Brooks
Inspired by Martin Buber’s writing while procrastinating from piano practice at High School Jazz camp, Brian Yosef began a quest for finding the inner truths of Judaism, beyond dogmas and tradition. Finding that Truth ironically led him back to tradition. Brian Yosef currently teaches meditation and Jewish spirituality at Chochmat HaLev, where he serves as sacred music and ritual director. He holds a Bachelor in Music from Eastman and received s’mikha from Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi as Minister of Sacred Music and as Jewish meditation teacher from Chochmat HaLev. His band, Captain Zohar, plays original Jewish devotional and concert music. He lives in Oakland with wife Lisa and two children, to whom he owes constant gratitude for keeping him far from cheap, egocentric substitutes for G-d.
Mondays, 7:30 – 9:30pm
Location: Chochmat HaLev
Free for all participants; Donation accepted
Awakening is the experiential realization that you are infinitely more than the sum of your thoughts and feelings. Beneath the personality there is a radiant field of awareness, free from negativity and connected to the aliveness of the present moment.
Brian Yosef Schachter-Brooks
Inspired by Martin Buber’s writing while procrastinating from piano practice at High School Jazz camp, Brian Yosef began a quest for finding the inner truths of Judaism, beyond dogmas and tradition. Finding that Truth ironically led him back to tradition. Brian Yosef currently teaches meditation and Jewish spirituality at Chochmat HaLev, where he serves as sacred music and ritual director. He holds a Bachelor in Music from Eastman and received s’mikha from Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi as Minister of Sacred Music and as Jewish meditation teacher from Chochmat HaLev. His band, Captain Zohar, plays original Jewish devotional and concert music. He lives in Oakland with wife Lisa and two children, to whom he owes constant gratitude for keeping him far from cheap, egocentric substitutes for G-d.
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