Purim Bursts

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Product Description This book uses the holiday of Purim to seque into the deepest kabbalistic mysteries. For example, an excerpt: This day is called Purim because its inner service is lots. There is a whole body of teachings about how to cast them. Every spritual practice requires this expertise. In fact it is the limiting factor of religious life...One goes deely inward (and upward) to find a place inside that transcends craving and aversion. Ones love-bond to God gets so deep, one's vision so vast, that the truest (and normally hidden) truth becomes real: Every moment is an opportunity for closeness with God and it is not clear which builds intimacy more, the joy or the pain, the blessing or the curse, Mordechai (the hero) or Haman (the villain). Would there be Purim without Haman? Who do we thank more for this day? Review It is rare to fine someone with such depth of kowledge and commitment to bringing back the pride Judaism. --Rabbi Noah Weinberg, Dean, Aish Hatorah, College of Jewish Studies About the Author Sarah Yehudit (Susan) Schneider is the founding director of A Still Small Voice, a correspondence school that provides weekly teachings in classic Jewish wisdom to subscribers around the world. She writes and teaches in close cooperation with leading rabbanim and outreach professionals in Jerusalem. Sarah has pursued the study and practice of religion, meditation, and comparative mysticism since the early seventies, and since 1981 has lived in Jerusalem and followed and orthodox path of Jewish Observance. Sarah studied at Neve Yerushalayim and completed the advanced learning program there. She wrote and studied privately with Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, a noted teacher of Chassidut and Kabbala. She continues to consult him when questions arise in her writing, learning, and teaching. Since 1982 Sarah has been immersed in the study of Jewish texts and tradition.