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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-26-06 10:47 AM Original message |
Upcoming Walking Stick Events & Teaching |
Edited on Thu Jan-26-06 10:49 AM by IanDB1
Cross-posted in the Judaism forum:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=316x683 Walking Stick Foundation is a non-profit, tax-exempt educational organization dedicated to the restoration and preservation of aboriginal Jewish spirituality, occasionally sharing events with teachers indigenous to Native American and other earth-honoring traditions. From: "The Walkingstick Newsletter" <newsletter@walkingstick.org> Reply-To: newsletter@walkingstick.org Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:02:44 -0500 Subject: Upcoming Walking Stick Events & Teaching MIRIAM MARON TO TEACH AT PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY IN L.A. Walking Stick’s Miriam Maron has been invited to teach a two-part program of music and teachings on the topic of "Shamanic Healing in the Kabbalah" at the Philosophical Research Society on Sunday, January 29, 2006. 11:00 AM -- Lecture: "Shamanic Healing in the Kabbalah." Cost: $5. 12:30-2:00PM -- Workshop: "Kabbalistic Healing." Cost: $15. Drawing from the lesser-known wisdom of the Kabbalah, Miriam will explore the intimate relationship of soul with body, ancient wisdom that does not differentiate between emotional, spiritual or physical imbalances but rather considers illness to be a major opportunity for personal renewal. Healing rituals involved incantations that called upon forces in the spirit realm, and often included various herbs, stones and incense. Employing the sacred tools of ancient texts, soul- stirring chants and trance-inducing movement, Miriam will discuss how healing involves the restoration of balance in the dynamics of soul manifestation. The Philosophical Research Society is located at 3910 Los Feliz Blvd., in Los Angeles, California. For more information, and to register, go to: www.uprs.edu Or call the university at: (323) 663-2167, or e-mail them at: info@prs.org __________________________________________________ WORKSHOP AND BOOK SIGNING IN LOS ANGELES Catherine Shainberg of the School of Imagery in New York City –- a long-time venue for Walking Stick classes in Manhattan -- will teach a workshop in Los Angeles on “Dream Interpretation and Imagery in the Kabbalah,” the subject of her new book, on Saturday morning January 28 at 9 AM at the Bodhi Tree Book Store, 8585 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles. The book signing will take place at 3 PM. For more information, contact Bonnie Buckner at (213) 380 2119. _____________________________________________________________ GERSHON TO TEACH AT "A TASTE OF HONEY" IN ALBUQUERQUE... Rabbi Winkler will be teaching at the Jewish Community Center in Albuquerque on Sunday February 12, participating in a panel discussion at 1 PM and lecturing at 4 PM on "Nudniks, Critics, and Dybbuks: Overcoming Walls You Never Built". To register visit www.jewishnewmexico.org or call (505) 821-3214. _____________________________________________________________ NEXT SACRED TALKS SEMINAR IN DURANGO, COLORADO... with Rabbi Gershon Winkler will be held on Saturday night, February 18, 2006 at Har Shalom, at 7 PM followed by hav'dalah ceremony. For directions, etc., contact Dr. Harold Shure at (970)385-6793. ______________________________________________________ NEXT SACRED TALKS SEMINAR IN SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO... with Rabbi Gershon Winkler will be held on Sunday February 19, 2006 from 1-5 PM at the home of Carl and Freya Diamond, 8 – East Sunrise Drive. Directions from Taos: Take US 285 south to Route 599 (Santa Fe Relief Route). Take Route 599 to the Camino La Tierra Exit and turn right. Go approximately 1 3/8 miles to the Salva Tierra Subdivision on your right. You must use the intercom at the gate to be let in. Then go through the gate and bear left onto East Sunrise Drive to #8, approximately 7/8 of a mile. From Albuquerque, take I-25 north to Exit 276-B (Route 599). Take Route 599 to the Camino La Tierra Exit and turn left. Continue with above directions. Cost: $50. More if you can, less if you can’t. No one is turned away for lack of funds. If you get lost, call the Diamonds at (505) 983-1450. _____________________________________________________________ GERSHON AND MIRIAM TO TEACH IN BOULDER, COLORADO Consciousness Learning Community is hosting a weekend Shabbaton program of learning with Rabbi Gershon Winkler and Miriam Maron, R.N., M.A., March 10-11, 2006, with an evening lecture held Thursday March 9. For information, contact: doritdror@hotmail.com ________________________________________________________________ GERSHON AND MIRIAM TO TEACH IN THE HILLS OF VIRGINIA Rabbi Gershon Winkler and Miriam Maron, R.N., M.A. will be teaching a weekend Shabbaton program in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia April 21-23, 2006. For information, contact Latifa Kropf at latifafital@yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________ GERSHON AND MIRIAM TO TEACH IN MARYLAND/D.C. AREA Am Kolel is hosting three days of learning with Rabbi Gershon Winkler and Miriam Maron, R.N., M.A., April 23-25, 2006. For more information, contact David Schneyer at amkolel@aol.com ______________________________________________________ THIRD JEWISH SHAMANIC HEALING TRAINING PROGRAM... Rabbi Gershon Winkler and Miriam Maron, R.N., M.A. have been asked to do a third Jewish Shamanic Healing program at Elat Chayyim Retreat Center in Accord, New York. This two-year, four-week program introduces participants to ancient and early-medieval Kabbalistic modalities and understandings of illness and healing through shamanic wisdom and rituals rooted in Jewish mystery wisdom. For more information, and to register, visit www.elatchayyim.org ______________________________________________________ STORY FIRES RETREAT IN NEW MEXICO, AUGUST 10-15, 2006 Spend five delightful days in a scenic New Mexico wilderness setting, and fill yourself with enriching wisdom from Judaism and Native America. Teachers: Miriam Maron, Kam Night Chase, Mary Lau, Lakme Elior, David Carson, Blue Spruce Standing Deer, and Gershon Winkler. Cost: $850. Accommodations are camping (tents and tenting gear provided), limited indoor lodging, motels 9 miles away. Cost includes all meals, airport pick-up (Albuquerque: 80 miles away) and tuition. For more information and to register visit www.walkingstick.org and click on the Programs page. Or call Walking Stick Foundation at (505) 289-3344 or e-mail us at: elkmesa@walkingstick.org ______________________________________________________________ GERSHON AND MIRIAM TO TEACH AT ESALEN AGAIN, AUGUST 27-SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 Join Gershon and Miriam for a five-day workshop on Kabbalistic Wisdom for Everyday Living, at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. To register visit www.esalen.org after April 1. Prior to April 1 you can only register by telephone: (831) 667-3005. _____________________________________________________ WE'RE GOING BACK TO ISRAEL! DUE TO THE OVERWHELMING SUCCESS OF ITS RECENT ISRAEL TOUR, WALKING STICK ANNOUNCES A SECOND JEWISH SHAMANIC TOUR OF ISRAEL November 2-12, 2006 With Rabbi Gershon Winkler and Miriam Maron, R.N., M.A. -- “In the Dust of the Ancestors": Ten days of visiting sacred sites and experiencing the mystical wisdom related to them, through chant, journeying, ceremony, and teachings. Cost for this tour is $2500 if paying by check, cash, or Money Order, or $2750 if paying by credit card on-line. Cost includes all meals, lodging, tours, program-related transportation within Israel, and tuition; does not include airfare to and from Tel Aviv which you must arrange on your own). A minimum non- refundable deposit of $1,000 is required (refundable only if Walking Stick Foundation cancels the trip). Deadline for registration is: September 1, 2006, after which we require full payment or balance due from deposit. Registration is limited to 30 participants. To register, visit www.walkingstick.org ____________________________________________________ On the Question of Cremation By Gershon Winkler (Response to a common query) It is not so absolutely black'n' white clear that cremation is forbidden by Jewish law. It actually doesn't say anywhere that it is, only that it's been Jewish tradition to return the body to the earth and enable gradual, organic transition of both body and soul -- one to earth from where it was taken and the other to spirit from whence she came. As Abraham put it some 3500 years ago: "I am earth and ashes" (Genesis 18:27), which can imply that either option is legitimate: dust or ashes. Job says the same thing (Book of Job 42:6). The early rabbis spoke of the ancient Jewish ritual of burning what belonged to kings and tribal leaders (Talmud, Avodah Zarah 11a), which can also imply that maybe we actually cremated the kings and tribal leaders at times, not just their implements. We are told it means their belongings, but the way it reads, it isn't so clear that it was solely their belongings. Earlier in that same folio, the second-century Rabbi Meir is quoted as saying that "it makes no difference whether it is death by fire or not by fire..." What exactly was he referring to, their stuff, or their bodies? It isn't clear. What is clear is this: stuff don't die. People do. And his wording is: "It makes no difference whether it is death by fire or not by fire..." And the way we have been taught to read it by the commentaries now and then is no proof that he didn't mean to imply literally cremation. The Tosafot commentaries (the 11th- century daughters and sons-in-laws of Rabbi Shlomo Yitchaki) on this Talmudic quote raise the question as to whether this ritual, whatever it actually was, is to be considered "the Ways of the Amorites" and therefore forbidden. The counter argument brought by the Tosafot, is that since the Torah herself talks about this rite, it cannot be considered amongst the forbidden Ways of the Amorites. The Torah, however, does not only talk about burning objects, it talks also about burning people as a rare means of execution for some specific capital crimes (Leviticus 20:14; see also Joshua 7:25, and Talmud, Sanhedrin 75a-b). The Torah further recounts how Nadav and Aveehu, the two sons of Moses’ brother Aaron, were cremated by a divine fire (Leviticus 10:2). If there was something wrong with cremation, burning would not have been one of the ways of either capital punishment or divine zapping. So it appears that it is quite possible that in earlier days cremation itself was considered an option in Judaism, and non- chalontly so, not only burning important people's belongings but their bodies as well. Also, see in the Hebrew the wording in Jeremiah 34:5 where the prophet assures the king that he will die a peaceful death and burn like the other kings. Of course, in the English translations, they add "burn incense for you like the other kings...", which does not appear in the Hebrew. In fact, in the scriptural story of the first Hebrew king, Saul, the people cremate him and his son after they die and then bury their bones (First Samuel 31:11-13). At least there, the translators neglected to change the wording and left it as it reads in the original Hebrew: "And they removed the bodies of Saul and his son Jonathan from the wall of Bet Sh'an and came to Yavesh Gil'ad and burned them there. Then they took the bones and buried them under the Tamarisk tree in Yavesh, and they fasted for seven days." Over sixty years ago, millions of our people were murdered and cremated in Nazi death camps. Cremation ought therefore to no longer bear its age-old taboo. On the contrary, in their honor and in their memory perhaps cremation should be rendered a respectable option as a ritual after death. It should become "ee'sheh l'a'do'noy," a sacred fire onto God (Exodus 29:25). Something to ponder. Please do not hit "Reply" or we will not receive your e-mail. If you wish to e-mail us, write to us at elkmesa@walkingstick.org To see all of WalkingStick's upcoming events, go to our News/Calendar page at: http://walkingstick.org/ |
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