4 posts tagged Aryeh Ben David

He wrote The Godfile: 10 Approaches to Personalizing Prayer (a book I read twice in a week instead of praying at shul). We did this interview via email: LF: What do you mean by this: "Everything that is true (vertically) is also true like this (horizontally)?" Rabbi: What I meant was that our relationship with Gd (vertical) tends to reflect our relationships with people (horizontal).

By Aryeh Ben David "For education to be truly effective it has to penetrate into the depths of the soul of the student." The Disconnectedness of Standard Jewish Education In my opinion there is a serious problem in Jewish Education a problem that will not be solved by a change in the syllabus nor by developing more knowledgeable educators.

By Aryeh Ben David "The perpetual prayer of the soul continually tries to emerge from its latent state to become revealed and actualized, to permeate every fiber of life of the entire universe . . . Sudden spiritual clarity comes about as a result of a certain spiritual lightning bolt that enters the soul .

I have close to zero interest in spirituality, prayer and developing a relationship with G-d (if I want to feel the transcendent, I just listen to a good pop song). About the only rabbi who made any sense to me on these matters was Mordecai Finley.