From 'Om' to 'Shema': Up Close; Long on the margins, Jewish meditation is now emerging in the mainstream. But exactly what is it?

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: February 2, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

From `Om' to `Shema': UP CLOSE; Long on the margins, Jewish meditation is now emerging in the mainstream. But exactly what is it?

DEBRA NUSSBAUM COHEN

STAFF WRITER

Just after 8, three mornings a week, two dozen girls and boys enter the darkened gymnasium at the Abraham Joshua Heschel Middle School on Manhattan's Upper West Side and sit cross-legged on the polished floor, where they begin silently focusing on their own breathing.

Guided by the school's Judaic studies teaching intern, who is a student of Jewish meditation, the middle schoolers try to let go of the whirl of thoughts filling ...

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