Talk:Jewish meditation

This article presents Jewish meditation according to HaBaD mysticism. This is but one limited view within the broader Jewish mystical tradition and should be made explicit in the article. A survey of the various forms of Jewish meditation is still needed.
 * I would say that by now the above statement is no longer true. Narcissus14 (talk)
 * I found this article still very focused on HaBaD sources, and on the whole very focused on Hasidic sources rather than other forms of Jewish meditation. I have made some corrections to remove some of the Hasidic emphasis from the opening of the article, and to add a section on Maimonides that helps to balance out the focus on Hasidism and Kabbalah.Musselmanner (talk) 14:37, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

The Sources

I wrote the orginal article and took most all the information from a book written by the "Mitler Rebbe" Rabbi Dov Ber of Lubavitch, the 3rd of the Chassdic masters of the Chabad Dynasty. The book is called "Shaar HaYichud" (eng. "Gate of Unity") and is printed as one part of a book called "Ner Mitzvah VeTorah Ohr" (the candle of a mitzvah and the light of the Torah) which was printed by Kehot Publication Society in 1995  and printed again in 2003. This information is drawn from the Chapters 1-9 of "Shaar HaYichud" which is found on pages 217-232.

I don't know how to do sources on Wikipedia, so help me out, but please DON"T DELETE!


 * To find out how to put up sources on Wiki., look at the 'edit page' of, for example and because it has all the forms of referencing, Kabbalah. There, within the text, you'll see formats for sourcing, connecting to a 'Notes' section at the bottom of the page, and for directly sourcing to external links. If you're really stuck, temporarily put up a 'Reference' subsection and type out your references: title, publisher, date, chapter and page. Abafied 23:26, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Sephardic endings
It seems to me that in most cases that Sephardic (Israeli) endings (Daat instead of Daas) are used in Wikipedia articles. If no one minds, I would like to change the spellings to that form. The difference could effect if wiki-links work or not. Kwork 23:34, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

In fact, when I tried just now Daas linked to an Indian film. Daat linked to the correct Kabbalistic article. Kwork 23:40, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

- Would it be possible to add a disambiguation link on that Indian film page? Or even request a disambiguation page? Leegee23 (talk) 23:39, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

History
I added a citation in the history section, but the section History needs a lot more work. I'm currently readin Aryeh Kaplan's Jewish Meditation book that I cited, so I might come back to help with that. I also added a request for citation in the section on Abulafia because so far I haven't read anything of that sort in Aryeh Kaplan's Jewish Meditation book. Is it in any of his others: Meditation and the Bible or Meditation and Kabbalah? Hycup (talk) 22:29, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Chabad
Could someone please take a look at the last three paragraphs? I appreciate the counter-point to the intellectualisms of Chabad, and I have tried to tone it down a little, but to my ear, it still sounds repetative and over-yoking the pudding. Just didn't feel right to cut someone else's work. On the other hand, if it is still here in a month.... Also, would it be appropriate to add some Breslovian quotes to counter the Lubavitcher? Leegee23 (talk) 23:42, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

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