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Jewish Yoga? Yes!

"If you are curious about hatha yoga, Aleph-Bet Yoga provides a safe introduction to the basic yoga postures and techniques If you are one of the tens of thousands of Jews who already practice hatha yoga, Aleph-Bet Yoga will connect your yoga to something explicitly Jewish. With its Jewish content and intent, Aleph-Bet Yoga will enhance rather than interfere with your religious identity." —from the Introduction

Combine the ancient practice of hatha yoga with the shapes and mystical meanings of the Hebrew letters to enhance your physical health and deepen your spiritual life.

Can yoga be Jewish? Yes! By blending traditional hatha yoga postures and the forms of the Hebrew aleph-bet, yoga teacher Steven Rapp shows how you can use this ancient health practice to deepen your Jewish spirituality.

Aleph-Bet Yoga shows us how to:

--Integrate the meaning of each Hebrew letter with the common name of the corresponding hatha yoga pose.

--Connect all twenty-seven Hebrew letters with hatha yoga poses that correspond to the shapes of the letters.

--Weave together the meaning of each Hebrew letter with the Sanskrit word for the yoga pose and a biblical phrase in meditation.

As we move our bodies through the Hebrew aleph-bet, turning toward the inner meaning of the letters, we can tap into the deep connections between our body, mind, and spirit. Drawing on the sacred texts and mystical writings of Judaism, combined with the insights of yoga teacher Steven Rapp, Aleph-Bet Yoga is an East-meets-West experience for our whole selves.

Aleph-Bet Yoga makes it easy for anyone to incorporate yoga into their life, and combine the physical and spiritual aspects of Judaism. It features step-by-step instructions, photographs clearly demonstrating each yoga pose, and insightful words to inspire and guide us in connecting the spiritual meaning of the Hebrew letters to our yoga practice..
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Throughout his life Rebbe Nachman penned succinct, powerful and challenging epigrams containing the distilled wisdom of the Torah on all areas of life, spiritual and physical. Calling his collection My dearly beloved friend, he used it to inspire himself along the path that led him to greatness..
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The Aleph Bet Story is a fun, unique storybook teaching the Hebrew letters to learners of all ages. Corners, curves, toes and tails? In this innovative presentation of the Aleph Bet, Sarah and David (and their friends Ben and Rachel) take you through their adventurs one letter at a time. Gimel is like a high-heel shoe? Mem is losing its marbles? The Aleph Bet Story promises to eliminate the confusion between similar looking letters while helping you remember the shape and sound of each letter. A must have tool for anyone learning the Hebrew alphabet..
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Aleph-Bet Soup is a book written in English about Hebrew letters in the Bible. As ancient and mysterious as this foreign alphabet of antiquity may at first appear, it gave rise to a major portion of our more familiar modern English.

What is so special about Hebrew?

Hebrew was clearly the first language spoken on this earth between Adam and God, six thousand years ago. It was the original language of the Word of God in the Old Testament, and it is still the only language to have survived from the ancient world. Hebrew is the language of the people of the Book. Each new insight that we may encounter in the Hebrew letters will make us all just that much more "people of the Book.".
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Here, writer Joshua Cohen and artist Michael Hafftka interpret the twenty-two letters of the Aleph Bet, the Hebrew alphabet Through their images and texts, Cohen and Hafftka engage these letters, in form and in function, in manners both mundane and mystical: the letter HEY becomes a hat, or a ritual head-covering; the letter YOD is said to represent a young girl... These images, and their three texts (two stories entitled Naming and Shabbos Dinner, with Letterforms, and the essayistic A Metaphysical Disquisition Upon the Nature of the Hebrew Sophiyot), together formulate a challenge to the Second Commandment, which forbids representation, in a style at once traditional and modern, expressively mindful of what it means to lack faith and yet, in the turn of a phrase, at the stroke of a paintbrush, refusing the consolation of cult. Here is a rewrite, and a re-depiction, of the spoken, the written and the visual Law a brilliant, future classic of Judaica... An Alphabet for the Perplexed..
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