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The Way of the Sant: Virtues For All Humanity by Anantanand Rambachan (Upcoming, Jan. ‘26)
The Way of the Sant invites readers into the gentle wisdom of the Sants-Hindu exemplars of compassion, humility, and courageous love. Drawing from Tulsidas's Ramacharitamanas and stories from many traditions, Anantanand Rambachan explores virtues that can shape a life of beauty and goodness. With clarity and warmth, he shows how anyone can cultivate empathy, resist injustice without hatred, honor the dignity of all beings, and become an instrument of healing in the world. Written in a clear and conversational style, it is both a celebration of the Sants and an invitation to embody their virtues in our own relationships, communities, and world.
Spirits, Ghosts, & Dybbuks:
Afterlife Journeys in Yiddish Lore by Simcha Paull Raphael
A richly researched and deeply spiritual work, Spirits, Ghosts, and Dybbuks: Afterlife Journeys in Yiddish Lore delves into the arcane realms of Jewish afterlife beliefs as vibrantly expressed through the imaginative worlds of Yiddish literature. In deftly demonstrating how the writings of I.L. Peretz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and others synthesized classical Jewish eschatology with the emerging sociopolitical thought of early modernity, Simcha Paull Raphael explores the enduring legacy of Jewish speculation on death and the afterlife.
Drawing on decades of experience as a death educator, grief counselor, and rabbinic chaplain, Raphael weaves scholarly insight with spiritual depth to expertly guide readers on a literary journey into the yenne velt, ' the ever-present 'other world' beyond the veil. Regardless of one's background or belief, this fascinating work invites readers to reflect on enduring spiritual questions about death, the soul, and the possibility of life beyond the grave.
Originally published as a chapter in the groundbreaking Jewish Views of the Afterlife, this expanded and revised volume offers newly updated material, highlighting the rich intersection of Yiddish literature and Jewish afterlife tradition.
A Merciful God:
Stories and Teachings of the Holy Rebbe, Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev by Zalman Schacter-Shalomi & Netanel Miles-Yépez
Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev (1740-1809) is one of the most celebrated and beloved of all Hasidic masters, communicating the spirit of Hasidism in a way that few others can. His expansive personality was able to forgive the fiercest enemies, to bring factions together, to pray with the utmost devotion, and to say the unsayable of his time.
In this beautiful little volume, now revised and expanded, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Netanel Miles-Yépez present a careful selection of his stories and teachings, translating and retelling them for modern readers (many for the first time) and putting them into a meaningful context with their insightful commentary. Readers of their other works, A Heart Afire and A Hidden Light will be thrilled with this delightful continuation of neo-Hasidic commentary.
Drama of the Planets
by Uriel Jones
Drama of the Planets is a poetic coming-of-age story, a skywalk through word, a journey into the world soul. This astrologically inspired collection of subaltern cosmogonies and mythologies descends into the mysteries to victoriously recover ancient futures.
The poems herein were written in an intense and formative period, from the author's final years as a college student to the beginning of his life as a young father. A transmission of sorts, they trace a burgeoning development of both personal and collective proportions. It is now offered as a resource for rising generations, exploring life-affirming possibilities and seeking to reconcile the earthly with the cosmic and a sense of ancestral richness with future potentialities.
The Tinker’s Son by Paul Horvitz
The Tinker's Son illuminates the painful moral choices faced by a rabbinical student in 1870s Imperial Russia after he is drafted into the Tsar's army and unwittingly hurts the woman he loves.
This work of historical fiction, the second novel by the journalist Paul Horvitz, is a wartime love story. Yakov Leibovich, a brilliant but inexperienced young man, is constrained by the traditions of his faith. His isolated shtetl life in the Pale of Settlement, a vast ghetto that crimps the aspirations of Russia's Jews, is upended by a conscription notice. Yakov's father and rabbi craft an exemption to keep him from becoming cannon fodder, but the scheme forces Yakov to acquiesce in an unethical act. When he realizes he has deeply harmed people he cares about, he embarks on a quest for forgiveness that propels him into battle, espionage, personal tragedy, and, ultimately, redemption. The Tinker's Son follows Yakov's intellectual and emotional maturation during the Russo-Turkish War as he encounters some of the era's most prominent generals, rabbis, and oligarchs. It captures the nationalistic and religious ferment that shaped Russian history and the future of Russia's Jews as they haltingly emerged from isolation into the modern era, even if it meant pursuing a risky escape to the promise of a better life.
Elements of Sound: A Full-Spectrum Exploration of Sound and Consciousness by Adrian DiMatteo
Elements of Sound explores the relationship between sound and consciousness at the intersections of science, spirituality and music theory. DiMatteo's approach draws inspiration from ancient and modern thinkers, scientists and indigenous wisdom-keepers, relating sound as both a primal mystery and a practical tool for communication, healing and transformation.
Weaving together diverse perspectives, Elements of Sound compares global traditions of song, poetry, storytelling and sacred language. It invites us to consider how sound and silence frame our innermost thoughts, and to be aware that sound itself constitutes our beliefs, identities and the words we use to define reality.
Influenced by such classics as The Mysticism of Sound and Music by Hazrat Inayat Khan and The Kybalion by Three Initiates, Elements of Sound penetrates the cosmology, esotericism and philosophy of sound and music, suggesting that thoughts are subtle forms of sound which impact our psychophysiological health.
Drawing from decades of experience in academic, clinical and ceremonial settings, DiMatteo conveys the relevance of sound, music and language across human culture. Spiritual seekers, curious minds and students of music will find an oasis of inspiration in his work, along with a common language to discuss what might otherwise seem ineffable.
Remembrance: A Vision of the Sacred Feminine
and the Renewal of the Earth
by Alejandra Warden
From the Prologue: “When the miraculous bursts into our path, it changes our destiny.” For three consecutive days I woke up hearing these words in my head. I didn’t know that they prefigured what was about to happen. It was in the autumn of 1996, and I had recently become a mother. I was raising children and working. Like most people, I had projects, goals, prospects. Like many women, I also clearly perceived the cultural injustice against the feminine in our world, and often, when I was alone in silence, deep inside I sensed a profound pain—piercing, ancient, and ancestral. But it was ‘just a feeling.’ Then I experienced a series of intense mystical experiences that would forever transform my life. For seven months, I would receive teachings and visions on the sacred essence of a feminine wisdom, a wisdom that lies dormant in the depths of us all. The recovery of this wisdom gives back to the feminine (and to women, in particular) a true purpose and path to freedom. On this incredible journey of consciousness, I learned about the history of the Earth—from her origin to the present— and was shown the wonders of different realms of nature and dimensions of existence. Before my eyes, the tremendous love, power, and wisdom of the feminine was unveiled, as well as a marvelous possible future for our planet. As the cycle of visions was coming to an end, I was asked to share what I had learned. But I soon discovered that I could not do it immediately. The impact of the experience generated a deep process of inner transformation that would last for many years to come.