Kirjahaku

This book is in a category of its own. It is the authoritative handbook of Jewish meditation. This invaluable technique was nearly lost in the holocaust of European Jewry, but R' Sterne has brought it back from the edge of extinction by translating this seminal work from the Chasidic master, the Rebbe Rashab of Lubavitch (1860-1920). Features a full English translation, many diagrams and tables to clarify spiritual levels, a full commentary bringing the esoteric material closer to our modern consciousness, and two appendices with extensive scholarly notes. A must for the serious Jewish English library, now for the first time available in softback format.

"Meditation like Fire and Water" is a compilation of of Chassidic excerpts on prayer, translated and arranged to correspond with the prayers in the siddur (prayer book). The translated excerpts include virtually everything written about prayer by the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe (the Rebbe Rashab) plus much Chassidut from the other Chabad Rebbeim. This volume also includes a detailed description of the technique of Chassidic prayer and meditation known as Hitbonenut, which was pioneered and developed by Chabad Chassidut and practiced until this very day, in order to reach higher states of spiritual consciousness and awareness of Godliness.

This is the Siddur, or Jewish prayer book, with summaries of Chasidic excerpts designed to help the person incorporate Chasidic concepts into his or her prayers. The summaries include a quotation, kaballistic elements of the excerpt, chasidic elements of the excerpt, and a section called "Within the Words" designed to explain how to apply the summary to our prayers. In addition there is a separate commentary demonstrating the correlation of our prayers to the spiritual levels discussed in "Love like Fire and Water (A guide to Jewish Meditation)." The latter is a translation of Kuntres Haavoda of the Rebbe Rashab.