One God Clapping

The firsthand account of the Jewish meditation movement leader Alan Lew's roundabout spiritual journey from Zen Buddhist practitioner to rabbi. This fascinating personal story serves as a source of inspiration for anyone who is on the journey to find God in today's multi-faceted spiritual world.

PART I: To Leave Everything That Is Familiar

Prologue: The Way Things Are

3

(3)

A Vivid Dream

6

(5)

Jewish Karma

11

(5)

Please Throw Me a Rope

16

(3)

How I Learned to Look Beneath the Surface

19

(3)

Freedom Is a Spiritual State

22

(5)

Sublimating Spirituality

27

(4)

Lech Lecha

31

(8)

The War Between the Two Sides of the Brain

39

(4)

Death Recycles into Life

43

(6)

The Question Is Not Whether a Teacher Has Real Spiritual Power, but How That Power Is Used

49

(8)

Centering

57

(5)

Meditation

62

(7)

The Gateway

69

(4)

Form Is Emptiness

73

(5)

Spiritual Pyrotechnics

78

(4)

Dokusan

82

(6)

When Peace Breaks Out, the First thing You Feel Is the Devastation of the War

88

(7)

The Need to Belong

95

(5)

Emptiness Is Form

100

(4)

Compassion

104

(3)

They Do Not Appear or Disappear

107

(11)

My Naked Heart

118

(8)

Healing Presence

126

(3)

Closure

129

(5)

Family

134

(8)

Wedding

142

(4)

Narrative

146

(5)

Hold On to Your Hat

151

(14)

PART II: God Was in This Place and I Didn't Know It

The Funnel

165

(3)

The Kaddish

168

(13)

Studying Talmud

181

(10)

The Holocaust

191

(11)

Prayer

202

(12)

Service

214

(9)

Why the Messiah Doesn't Come

223

(6)

Death

229

(15)

Teshuvah

244

(10)

The Lineaments of the Divine Encounter

254

(11)

Kabbalah

265

(7)

Taking Leave

272

(7)

PART III: To Struggle with God Until Your Name Changes

The Shem'a

279

(6)

Open the Gates

285

(11)

Our Divine Name

296

(6)

What I Learned from Buddhism About How to Save Judaism

302

(6)

How to Look at Your Heart

308

(8)

About Jewish Lights

316

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