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Shefa Gold



Shefa Gold is an American rabbi and scholar, a leader in ALEPH: the Alliance for Jewish Renewal, and the director of C-DEEP, the Center for Devotional, Energy, and Ecstatic Practice in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. She is a noted teacher of chanting, Jewish mysticism, Jewish prayer, and spirituality, and she leads workshops and retreats on chanting, devotional healing, spiritual community-building, and meditation.

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The Magic of Hebrew Chant: Healing the Spirit, Transforming the Mind, Deepening Love

A few short words—repeated with passion & intention—can unlock treasure upon treasure of healing, wisdom, and love.

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Jewish Renewal

A growing movement within American Judaism recalls the tendency in most faiths for worshippers over the years to move back and forth between the head and the heart — theology and doctrine on one side, spiritual fervor on the other.

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Making Prayer Real: Leading Jewish Spiritual Voices on Why Prayer Is Difficult and What to Do about It

Join over fifty Jewish spiritual leaders from all denominations in a candid conversation about the why and how of prayer: how prayer changes us and how to discern a response from God.

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Chanting with Shefa Gold

Rabbi Shefa Gold invites the Wandering Jew to her monthly chant group in Albuquerque.

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The Magic of Hebrew Chant Companion: The Big Book of Musical Notations and Incantations

A few short words―repeated with passion and intention―can unlock treasure upon treasure of healing, wisdom and love. The complete musical notations for the chants/spiritual practices featured in The Magic of Hebrew Chant, in a larger format that is ideal for individual musician and group use.

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Soulift by Rabbi Shefa Gold

Shefa talking about the inspiration for her new project - SOULIFT!

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Torah Journeys: The Inner Path to the Promised Land

The Torah is the map. You are the territory. Each weekly Torah portion brings us a blessing, a challenge and an opportunity for spiritual transformation. An inspiring guide to finding your way through the landscape of Torah . . . and finding the Torah in you.

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A Chant Encounter with God

“I think I remember you. You were the weird one.” That, according to Rabbi Shefa Gold, was what one of the first people to “teach me that Judaism could be a path with passion, because he had such passion” said when she encountered him again at a conference years later.

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Generosity Week 2015 - Shefa Gold

In today’s lesson, Rabbi Gold reminds us of the story in Exodus where God asks his people to offer gifts from the heart, to create for him a mikdash (a sanctuary, a holy place) that he might dwell in their midst. The people responded so enthusiastically that they had to be told to stop giving.

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In the Fever of Love: An Illumination of the Song of Songs

You don't have to be a mystic to enjoy Rabbi Shefa Gold's new commentary on the Song of Songs, but it may make you into one. Rather than address herself to the reader, she speaks directly, and passionately, to God, The Beloved.

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