TEACHINGS OF RABBI ZALMAN SCHACHTER-SHALOMI

Reb Zalman's teaching career has spanned many decades. Most of his teachings were given orally and recorded; some began as written. During the past several years, we have begun an ALEPH project to review these teachings edit them, and make them available in written form as well as in audio and visual media. Below you will find a list of those currently available for download. A more complete list of Reb Zalman's teachings available through the ALEPH ReSources Catalog can be found by clicking here.

 

 

KEYS TO THE WISDOM OF TRUTH

Rabbi Saul Baumann

Introduction and Commentaries by
Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Reb Zalman has hoped for many years to make available this beautiful Sefer, Shaul Baumann’s Sefer Miftachay Chokhmat Ha-Emet. The project was most recently coordinated by Reb Shaya Isenberg along with Reb Victor Gross and has benefited from the involvement of many others. We all believe that it is now time to share it in this format. Not the least of the reasons is our desire to put Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s amazing commentary into your hands.

Baumann’s re-presentation of Lurianic Kabbalistic cosmogony and cosmology becomes the perfect occasion for Reb Zalman to update from his own deep understanding of contemporary scientific stories of the origins and process of the universe.

Please click on the image of the cover to view and download sample pages.

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SPIRITUAL ECONOMICS YOU CAN GET ANYTHING YOU WANT IN AD-ON-I'S RESTAURANT
The question which Reb Zalman raises at the beginning of this class is the same question we need to be raising again today. How do we live through a time of economic constraint, a time when a desire for peace and harmonious living on this miraculous planet of ours seems at odds with the direction of politics throughout the world? Reb Zalman proposes that we can respond to these times creatively by broadening our world view and the location of both our needs and the means to satisfy them to include all four of the Lurianic “worlds.” He shows how we have fallen into a narrow understanding of what life is and how we can achieve satisfaction on a deep level. He provides us with an approach to daily prayer which can reconnect us to this larger world view. In the body of the teaching, you will find this practice described three separate times, each with its unique focus. In between these descriptions, Reb Zalman provides his analysis and rationale along with an introduction to the four worlds, so important to his teaching and to Jewish spiritual renewal. Reb Zalman is arguing both for the value of a daily practice and for the notion that a spiritual practice must be good enough to carry the practitioner through difficult as well as easy times.                            

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A GUIDE FOR STARTING YOUR NEW INCARNATION:

Teachings on the Modern Meaning of Teshuvah

One of the strongest teachings I’ve yet received on reincarnation came from the late Lubavitcher Rebbe,
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who once said,

The teachings on gilgul – reincarnation – are true,
AND,
it is also true that you don’t have to wait to die to start a new life.
In turning to God – t’shuvah,
you can start the next incarnation right now.

Focused on a progression through the High Holyday period, this is about the reentering of creation itself; reconceiving our relationship to the Infinite Mind. Reb Zalman also introduces new categories for thinking about t'shuvah relevant to our time.

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   TREE OF LIFE OF SACRED TIME

    Reb Zalman calls us to pay mindful attention to the calendar, the stages of the moon, the seasons of the year, the cycles of the weeks, and the process of redemption. In this teaching, Reb Zalman also shows us that we can duplicate these cycles in miniature even on a daily basis. Thus, this teaching provides a meditation both on the year and for each day of the year.

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