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((short description|Meditation in Judaism))
((More citations needed|date=March 2010))
[[File:Ari Ashkenazi Synagogue, shiviti.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Meditative Kabbalah [[Shiviti]] with Kabbalistic names of God]]
'''Jewish meditation''' includes practices of settling the mind, introspection, visualization, emotional insight, [[contemplation]] of [[Names of God in Judaism|divine names]], or concentration on philosophical, ethical or mystical ideas. [[Meditation]] may accompany unstructured, personal [[Jewish prayer]], may be part of structured [[Jewish services]], or may be separate from prayer practices. [[Jewish mysticism|Jewish mystics]] have viewed meditation as leading to ''[[devekut]]'' (cleaving to God). Hebrew terms for meditation include ''[[hitbodedut]]'' (or ''hisbodedus,'' literally "self-seclusion") or ''hitbonenut/hisbonenus'' ("contemplation").<ref name=":2">((cite book |last1=Kaplan |first1=Aryeh |url=https://archive.org/details/meditationkabbal00kapl |title=Meditation and Kabbalah |date=1985 |publisher=S. Weiser |isbn=978-0877286165 |edition=1st paperback |location=York Beach, Me. |pages=11–16))</ref><ref>((Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jebDCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT33|title=The Shambhala Guide to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism|last=Besserman|first=Perle|date=1998-01-20|publisher=Shambhala Publications|isbn=9780834826656|language=en))</ref>

Through the centuries, meditation practices have been developed in many movements, including among Maimonideans ([[Maimonides|Moses Maimonides]] and [[Abraham Maimonides]]), Kabbalists ([[Abraham Abulafia]], [[Isaac the Blind]], [[Azriel of Gerona]], [[Moses ben Jacob Cordovero|Moses Cordovero]], [[Yosef Karo]] and [[Isaac Luria]]), Hasidic rabbis ([[Baal Shem Tov]], [[Schneur Zalman of Liadi]] and [[Nachman of Breslov]]), [[Musar movement]] rabbis ([[Israel Salanter]] and [[Simcha Zissel Ziv]]), [[Conservative Judaism|Conservative movement]] rabbis ([[Alan Lew]]), [[Reform Judaism|Reform movement]] rabbis ([[Lawrence Kushner]] and [[Rami M. Shapiro|Rami Shapiro]]), and [[Reconstructionist Judaism|Reconstructionist movement]] rabbi ([[Shefa Gold]]).

==Definitions==
In his book ''Meditation and Kabbalah'', [[Aryeh Kaplan|Rav Aryeh Kaplan]] suggests that meditation is a practice that is meant to bring [[moksha|spiritual liberation]] through various methods that can loosen the bond of the physical, allowing the practitioner to reach the transcendental, spiritual realm and attain [[Holy Spirit in Judaism|Ruach HaKodesh]] (Holy spirit), which he associates with [[Divine illumination|enlightenment]].<ref name=":2" /> 

More recently Tomer Persico presented the lack of a proper definition of the word meditation.<ref name=":3">((Cite journal |last=Persico |first=Tomer |date=2022-07-13 |title=Studying Jewish Meditative Techniques: A Phenomenological Typology and an Interdisciplinary View |journal=Religions |language=en |volume=13 |issue=7 |pages=648 |doi=10.3390/rel13070648 |issn=2077-1444 |doi-access=free ))</ref> He suggests that the word has many different meanings and uses, and that only a few attempts have been made to provide a comprehensive definition. He therefore suggests meditation should be defined as "A voluntary act aiming to generate an alteration in the individuals consciousness, which they perceive as therapeutic or redemptive".<ref>((Cite book |last=Persico |first=Tomer |title=Jewish Meditation: The Development of a Modern Form of Spiritual Practice in Contemporary Judaism |publisher=Tel Aviv University |year=2012 |location=Tel-Aviv, Israel |pages=25 |language=he))</ref> Based on that definition, he further presents a five elements typology with which the various Jewish meditative traditions could be distinguishable from one another:

* '''''Fundamental Structure-''''' Whether the meditation in general cultivates awareness, concentration or automation. 
* '''''Orientation, or Intentional Stance-''''' Whether the meditation is inward or outward bent, introverted or extroverted.
* '''''The Emotive Effect-''''' Whether the meditation brings about an enraptured surge of feelings and sense impressions or an equilibrious quieting of the mind, whether it is ecstatic or enstatic.
* '''''The Corporal Locus-''''' Whether it is focused on the mind-consciousness domain, or on the body-emotional arena, whether it is mind and "awareness"-centered or body and "energy"-centered,
* '''''Relationship with the Acknowledged Tradition''-''' Whether the methods are superimposed on the traditional religious practices or whether they are complete innovations being added to them, whether (in the Jewish case specifically) they are nomian or anomian.<ref name=":3" />

==Bible==
Aryeh Kaplan sees indications throughout the [[Hebrew Bible]] that Judaism always contained a central meditative tradition, going back to the time of the patriarchs.<ref>((cite book|last=Kaplan|first=Aryeh|url=https://archive.org/details/jewishmeditation00arye/page/40|title=Jewish Meditation|publisher=Schocken Books|year=1985|isbn=0-8052-1037-7|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/jewishmeditation00arye/page/40 40–41]|author-link=Aryeh Kaplan))</ref> For instance, in the book of Genesis, the patriarch [[Isaac]] is described as going "lasuach" (((Lang-he|לָשׂוּחַ|lit=to meditate|translit=lāśūaḥ)))<ref>((Cite web |title=Strong's Hebrew Concordance - 7742. suach |url=https://biblehub.com/hebrew/7742.htm |website=Bible Hub))</ref> in the field ([[Book of Genesis|Genesis]] 24:63),<ref>((Cite web |title=Genesis 24:63 - Hebrew Text: Westminster Leningrad Codex |url=https://biblehub.com/text/genesis/24-63.htm |website=Bible Hub))</ref> understood by many commentators to refer to some type of meditative practice.<ref>Kaplan, A. (1978), ''Meditation and the Bible'', Maine, Samuel Weiser Inc, p101</ref>

== Merkavah-Heichalot mysticism ==
((Jewish mysticism))
((Main|Hekhalot literature|Merkabah mysticism|Pardes (legend)))
Some scholars see [[Merkabah mysticism|Merkavah-Heichalot mysticism]] as using meditative methods, built around the biblical vision of Ezekiel and the creation in Genesis. According to Michael D. Swartz: "the texts do not, however, provide any instructions for meditation techniques. Nor do they betray any evidence of consciousness of an interior self, such as the soul or mind, which accomplishes the journey to heaven."<ref>((Cite web|title=Bloomsbury Collections - Meditation in Judaism, Christianity and Islam - Cultural Histories|url=https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/meditation-in-judaism-christianity-and-islam-cultural-histories/ch3-mystics-without-minds-body-and-soul-in-merkavah-mysticism|access-date=2020-11-03|website=www.bloomsburycollections.com|language=en))</ref>

== Maimonides ==
[[Maimonides|Moses Maimonides]], often considered the greatest [[Jewish philosophy|Jewish philosopher]] of his time,<ref>((cite book |last1=Blackburn |first1=Simon |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy |date=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-105427-3 |page=288 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mc55CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA288))</ref><ref>((cite web |last1=Seeskin |first1=Kenneth |title=Maimonides |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/maimonides/ |website=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |date=2017))</ref><ref>((cite journal |last1=Furst |first1=A. |title=Moses Maimonides |journal=Toxicological Sciences |date=1 February 2001 |volume=59 |issue=2 |pages=196–197 |doi=10.1093/toxsci/59.2.196 |pmid=11158711 |url=https://academic.oup.com/toxsci/article/59/2/196/1667173|doi-access=free ))</ref> suggests in ''[[The Guide for the Perplexed]] ([https://www.sefaria.org/Guide_for_the_Perplexed%2C_Part_3.32?lang=bi 3.32]), that intellectual meditation is a higher form of worship than either sacrifice or prayer.<ref>((Cite book |last=Benor |first=Ehud |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LiwGfOx5PSYC&pg=PA159 |title=Worship of the Heart: A Study of Maimonides' Philosophy of Religion |date=2012-02-01 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=9780791496329 |pages=159 |language=en))</ref><ref>((Cite book |last1=Frank |first1=Daniel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2e_O1CbFwA8C&pg=PA217 |title=History of Jewish Philosophy |last2=Leaman |first2=Oliver |date=2005-10-20 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781134894352 |pages=217 |language=en))</ref>''

He later ([https://www.sefaria.org/Guide_for_the_Perplexed%2C_Part_3.51?lang=bi 3:51]) teaches that those who are "perfect" in their intellectual perception of God can "enjoy the presence
of Divine Providence", but only while they "meditate on God".<ref>Fleming, James Hamilton, [https://ecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1760&context=luc_theses "The Idea of God in the Philosophy of Moses Maimonides"] (1949). ''Master's Theses''. p. 123. 758</ref> He offers a parable that suggests that purely intellectual, private meditation is the highest form of worship.<ref>((Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LiwGfOx5PSYC&pg=PA114|title=Worship of the Heart: A Study of Maimonides' Philosophy of Religion|last=Benor|first=Ehud|date=2012-02-01|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=9780791496329|pages=114|language=en))</ref> 

That chapter of the Guide ([https://www.sefaria.org/Guide_for_the_Perplexed%2C_Part_3.51?lang=bi 3:51]) is dedicated to what Maimonides refers to as: "the worship peculiar to those who have apprehended the true realities". According to Maimonides, after acquiring the knowledge of the Divine, we should turn our awareness to Him, something that is usually accomplished in self-seclusion:<blockquote>It has thus been shown that it must be man's aim, after having acquired the knowledge of God, to deliver himself up to Him, and to have his heart constantly filled with longing after Him. He accomplishes this generally by seclusion and retirement. Every pious man should therefore seek retirement and seclusion, and should only in case of necessity associate with others.<ref>((Cite web |title=Guide for the Perplexed, Part 3 51:10 |url=https://www.sefaria.org/Guide_for_the_Perplexed,_Part_3.51.10?lang=en&with=all&lang2=en |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=www.sefaria.org))</ref></blockquote>This practice includes love and longing for God, a subject Maimonides discusses in length at the beginning of his other great book, ''The Mishne Torah'': <blockquote>What is the path [to attain] love and fear of Him? When a person contemplates His wondrous and great deeds and creations and appreciates His infinite wisdom that surpasses all comparison, he will immediately love, praise, and glorify [Him], yearning with tremendous desire to know [God's] great name.<ref>((Cite web |title=Mishneh Torah, Foundations of the Torah 2:2 |url=https://www.sefaria.org/Mishneh_Torah,_Foundations_of_the_Torah.2.2?lang=en&with=all&lang2=en |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=www.sefaria.org))</ref></blockquote>[[Abraham Maimonides]], son of Moses Maimonides, also recommended private meditative practices that were designed to rid the mind of desires and allow for communion with God.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://kavvanah.wordpress.com/2016/01/23/interview-with-elisha-russ-fishbane-judaism-sufism-and-the-pietists-of-medieval-egypt-a-study-of-abraham-maimonides-and-his-circle/|title=Interview with Elisha Russ-Fishbane — Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt: A Study of Abraham Maimonides and His Circle|last=Brill|first=Alan|date=2016-01-24|website=The Book of Doctrines and Opinions|language=en|access-date=2019-06-06))</ref><ref>((Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/historyvarieties00verm|url-access=registration|title=The History and Varieties of Jewish Meditation|last=Verman|first=Mark|date=1996|publisher=Jason Aronson|isbn=9781568215228|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyvarieties00verm/page/184 184]–185|language=en))</ref> Abraham Maimonides developed a Jewish [[Sufism|Sufi]] meditation practice that was influential in medieval Cairo.<ref>((Cite book |last=Russ-Fishbane |first=Elisha |title=Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt: A Study of Abraham Maimonides and His Times |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2015 |pages=52, 103))</ref> 

In his book, ''The Guide to Serving God'', he provides an elaborative meditative practice based on his father's teachings:<blockquote>Inward retreat (Hitbodedut) is the complete focus of the heart.. to empty the heart and mind of all besides God and to fill and occupy them with Him. This is accomplished by totally or partially quieting the sensitive soul, detaching the appetitive (i.e. desiring) soul from the rest of one's worldly occupations and reorienting it toward God; filling the rational soul with God; and using the imaginative soul to assist the intelligence in its contemplation of Gods magnificent creations, which testify to their Creator: the majesty and awe of the sea, with its wondrous creatures, the rotation of the great c"elestial sphere, the nature of the stars, and such.''"''<ref>((Cite book |last=Maimonides |first=Rabbi Abraham |title=The Guide to Serving God |publisher=FELDHEIM |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-59826-965-9 |location=Jerusalem, Israel. |pages=491–493 |language=en))</ref></blockquote>

==Kabbalah==
((See also|Kavanah|Names of God in Judaism))
((Kabbalah))
[[Kabbalah|Kabbalists]] of different schools have been concerned with a range of esoteric encounters with divinity mediated by different [[meditation|meditative]] practices, ranging from ecstatic [[mysticism|mystical]] [[Deveikut|cleaving to God]], or [[Holy Spirit in Judaism|prophetic]] visual and auditory disclosing of the divine, to [[Theurgy|theurgic]] manipulation of [[Theosophy (disambiguation)|theosophical]] divine emanations. Practices included meditation on the [[names of God in Judaism]], combinations of [[Hebrew language|Hebrew letters]], and ''[[Kavanah|kavanot]]'' (esoteric "intentions").

The main concern of the Theosophical Kabbalah such as the ''[[Zohar]]'' and [[Isaac Luria]] was on theurgic harmonisation of the [[sephirot]] (Divine attributes), though recent [[Phenomenology of religion|phenomenological]] scholarship has uncovered the prophetic visualisation of the sephirot as a [[Anthropomorphism in Kabbalah|Divine Anthropos]] in the imagination of the medieval theosophical practitioners.<ref>''Through a Speculum That Shines - Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism'', Elliot R. Wolfson, Princeton University Press 1997</ref> In contrast, the main concern of the medieval ''[[Ecstatic Kabbalah]]'', exemplified most fully in [[Abraham Abulafia]]'s "Prophetic Kabbalah", was on [[unio mystica]] and drawing down the influx of prophecy upon the practitioner. Abulafia opposed interpreting the sephirot as theosophical-theurgical [[Hypostasis (philosophy and religion)|hypostases]], seeing them in Maimonidean [[negative theology]] psychological terms, while viewing his meditation mysticism as a superior Kabbalah. The ethic of meditation [[mysticism]] in Abulafia and other Ecstatic Kabbalists was a minority tradition to the Theosophical Kabbalah mainstream, but later aspects of it became incorporated in the 16th century Theosophical compendiums of Cordovero and Vital, such as drawing down divine influx, and subsequently influenced the psychologisation of Kabbalah in [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] self-absorption in God. Ecstatic traditions were at a disadvantage for normative Judaism, as they made classic meditation their central preoccupation; as with [[Moses Maimonides]] the [[mitzvot]] (Jewish observances) were a means to the end purpose of mystical or philosophical cleaving to God (or the [[Active intellect]]). In contrast, Theosophical traditions centred around the theurgic power and cosmic centrality importance of normative Jewish worship and [[Halakha]] observance, especially when carried out with elite Kavanot (mystical intentions).

Pinchas Giller questions the usage of the term "[[meditation]]" for Theosophical (mainstream) Kabbalah's theurgic kavanot (intentions), where [[deveikut]] (cleaving to God) was secondary, preferring the term more accurately for Ecstatic Kabbalah's unio mystica methods and goal. He sees generalising the term in reference to all Kabbalistic intentions as a reflection of the contemporary zeitgeist, promoted by [[Aryeh Kaplan]] and others. He recommends [[Ecstatic Kabbalah]], the Jewish [[Sufism]] of [[Abraham Maimonides]], or [[Chabad]] Hasidic prayer contemplation as paths more suited to develop a future ethic of Jewish meditation ([[unio mystica]]). However, as mitzvot are the primary centre of traditional Judaism, Giller sees [[Jewish prayer]], rather than classic meditation akin to Eastern Religions, as the true central expression of Judaism. Theosophical Kabbalists and later Hasidism were deeply concerned to develop mystical approaches to prayer, whether theurgic in the case of Kabbalah, or [[deveikut|devotional]] and self-nullifying in the case of Hasidism.<ref>''Kabbalah - A Guide for the Perplexed'', Pinchas Giller, Continuum 2011, the chapter on Kabbalah and Meditation</ref>

In contrast to rationalist [[Jewish philosophy]]'s progressively [[negative theology|anti-metaphysical]] interpretation of Jewish observance, Theosophical Kabbalists reinterpreted Judaism's prayer and mitzvot as cosmic [[Metaphysics|metaphysical]] processes, especially when carried out in particular ways that could channel the mystical flow between the Divine sephirot on high and from the divine realm to this world. They reinterpreted standard [[Jewish liturgy]] by reading it as esoteric mystical meditations and the ascent of the soul for elite practitioners. Through this, the border between supplicatory prayer and theurgic practice blurs if prayer becomes viewed as a magical process rather than Divine response to petitions. However, Kabbalists censored directly magical [[Practical Kabbalah]] willed control of angels for only the most holy, and justified their theurgic prayer as optimising the divine channels through which their prayerful supplication to God ascends. Kabbalists declare one prayers only "to Him (God's [[Atzmus|essence]], "male" here solely in Hebrew's gendered grammar), not to His attributes (sephirot)".((cn|date=May 2022)) To pray to a Divine attribute introduces the cardinal idolatrous sin of division and plurality among the sephirot, separating them from their dependence and nullification in the Absolute [[Ein Sof]] Unity. Instead, Kabbalist prayer, following the liturgy, is only to God (''"Blessed are You, Lord our God"'' - the Divine Essence expressed though different [[Names of God in Judaism]]). However, each traditional Name of God corresponds in Kabbalah to a different manifestation of the sephirot. [[Moses ben Jacob Cordovero|Moses Cordovero]], who systemised Kabbalah, explains that the sephirot names ([[Keter]], [[Chokhmah]], [[Binah (Kabbalah)|Binah]], etc.) are the vessels of each attribute; to pray to the vessel is idolatry. The corresponding Names of God ([[I Am that I Am|Eheye]], [[Jah|Yah]], [[Tetragrammaton|Havayah]], etc) relate to the inner Divine Unity dimension of each sephira, expressing the forms the unified [[Ohr|Infinite light]] takes as it illuminates within each vessel; prayer to traditional liturgy Divine Names is prayer to God's Essence, expressed through particular sephirot supernal channels on high. Corresponding with the traditional words of prayer, the Kabbalist intentionally contemplates each Divine Name sephirot channel with theurgic Kavanot meditations to open the Divine flow so prayer supplication to God's hidden innermost [[Will of God|Will]] (concealed within the innermost dimensions of the first sephirah [[Keter]], where it merges into the [[Ein Sof]]) is optimised, as the traditional prayer relates, "May it be Your Will that... your Kindness overrides Judgment" etc.

[[Aryeh Kaplan]] described what he termed "meditative kabbalah", shared across academic divisions between Theosophical and Ecstatic Kabbalists,<ref>''Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism'', Gershom Scholem, Schocken, originally published 1941. Chapter on the Ecstatic Kabbalah of [[Abraham Abulafia]] sharply distinguishes it from [[Theosophical Kabbalah]] embodied in the Zohar</ref> as a midpoint on the spectrum between "[[practical kabbalah]]" and "theoretical kabbalah".<ref>((Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fPVIABpefO8C&pg=PA2|title=Meditation and Kabbalah|last=Kaplan|first=Aryeh|date=1995|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-56821-381-1|language=en))</ref>

===Ecstatic Kabbalists===
====Abraham Abulafia====
[[Abraham Abulafia]] (1240–1291), a leading medieval figure in the history of Meditative Kabbalah and the founder of the school of Prophetic/Ecstatic Kabbalah, wrote meditation manuals using meditation on Hebrew letters and words to achieve [[Religious ecstasy|ecstatic states]].<ref>Jacobs, L. (2006) ''Jewish Mystical Testimonies'', Jerusalem, Keter Publishing House, pp56-72</ref> 

His teachings embody the non-Zoharic stream in Spanish Kabbalism, which he viewed as alternative and superior to the theosophical Kabbalah which he criticised.((Citation needed|date=November 2020)) Abulafia's work was surrounded in controversy because of the edict against him by [[Shlomo ben Aderet]], a contemporary leading scholar. However, according to [[Aryeh Kaplan]], the Abulafian system of meditations forms an important part of the work of [[Hayim Vital]], and in turn his master [[Isaac Luria]].<ref>((Cite book |last=Kaplan |first=Aryeh |title=Meditation and Kabbalah |year=1989 |isbn=978-0-87728-616-5 |pages=191 |publisher=Weiser Books |language=en))</ref> 

Aryeh Kaplan's pioneering translations and scholarship on Meditative Kabbalah trace Abulafia's publications to the extant concealed transmission of the esoteric meditative methods of the [[Nevi'im|Hebrew prophets]].<ref>''Meditation and the Bible'' and ''Meditation and Kabbalah'' by [[Aryeh Kaplan]]</ref> 

While Abulafia remained a marginal figure in the direct development of Theosophical Kabbalah, recent academic scholarship on Abulafia by [[Moshe Idel]] reveals his wider influence across the later development of Jewish mysticism.<ref>((Cite book |last=Idel |first=Moshe |title=The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia |publisher=State University of New York Press |year=1987 |isbn=978-0887065538 |language=en))</ref>

In the 16th century [[Judah Albotini]] continued Abulafian methods in Jerusalem.<ref>((Cite book |last=Kaplan |first=Aryeh |title=Meditation and Kabbalah |year=1989 |isbn=978-0-87728-616-5 |pages=111 |language=en))</ref><ref>((Cite book |last=Idel |first=Moshe |title=Kabbalah: New Perspectives |publisher=Yale University Press |year=1990 |isbn=978-0300046991 |pages=116 |language=en))</ref>

====Isaac of Acco====
[[Isaac ben Samuel of Acre]] (1250–1340) also wrote about meditative techniques. One of Isaac's most important teachings involves developing ''hishtavut'', which Aryeh Kaplan describes as equanimity, stoicism, and a total indifference to outside influences. Rabbi Isaac sees ''hishtavut'' as a prerequisite for meditation:<blockquote>You should constantly keep the letters of the Unique Name in your mind as if they were in front of you, written in a book with [[Ktav Ashuri|Torah ''(Ashurit)'' script]]. Each letter should appear infinitely large.

When you depict the letters of the [[Tetragrammaton|Unique Name (י-ה-ו-ה)]] in this manner, your mind's eye should gaze on them, and at the same time, your heart should be directed toward the Infinite Being ''([[Ein Sof|Ain Sof]]).'' Your gazing and thought should be as one.

This is the mystery of true attachment, regarding which the Torah says, "To Him you shall attach yourself" (Deuteronomy 10:20). <ref>''Meditation and Kabbalah'', Aryeh Kaplan, Samuel Wieser publications, p.140-142</ref></blockquote>

====Joseph Tzayach====
[[Joseph Tzayach]] (1505–1573), influenced by Abulafia, taught his own system of meditation. Tzayach was probably the last Kabbalist to advocate use of the prophetic position, where one places his head between his knees. This position was used by Elijah on Mount Carmel, and in early [[Merkabah mysticism]]. Speaking of individuals who meditate (hitboded), he says:
<blockquote>They bend themselves like reeds, placing their heads between their knees until all their faculties are nullified. As a result of this lack of sensation, they see the Supernal Light, with true vision and not with allegory.<ref>''Meditation and Kabbalah'', Aryeh Kaplan, Samuel Wieser publications, p.165</ref></blockquote>

===Theosophical Kabbalists===
====Moses ben Jacob Cordovero====
((Unreferenced section|date=June 2019))
[[Moses ben Jacob Cordovero]] (1522–1570) taught that when meditating, one does not focus on the [[Sefirot]] (divine emanations) per se, but rather on the light from the Infinite (''[[Atzmus]]''-essence of God) contained within the emanations. Keeping in mind that all reaches up to the Infinite, his prayer is "to Him, not to His attributes." Proper meditation focuses upon how the [[Godhead in Judaism|Godhead]] acts through specific sefirot. In meditation on the essential [[Hebrew name of God]], represented by the four letter [[Tetragrammaton]], this corresponds to meditating on the [[Hebrew vowels]] which are seen as reflecting the light from the Infinite-Atzmus.

====Isaac Luria====
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[[Isaac Luria]] (1534–1572), the father of modern Kabbalah, systemised [[Lurianic Kabbalah|Lurianic Kabbalistic]] theory as a dynamic mythological scheme. While the Zohar is outwardly solely a theosophical work, for which reason medieval Meditative Kabbalists followed alternative traditions, Luria's systemisation of doctrine enabled him to draw new detailed meditative practices, called ''[[Yichudim]]'', from the Zohar, based on the dynamic interaction of the Lurianic ''[[partzufim]]''. This meditative method, as with Luria's theosophical exegesis, dominated later Kabbalistic activity. Luria prescribed ''Yichudim'' as ''Kavanot'' for the prayer liturgy, later practiced communally by [[Shalom Sharabi]] and the [[Beit El Synagogue|Beit El]] circle, for Jewish observances, and for secluded attainment of ''[[Ruach Hakodesh]]''. One favoured activity of the [[Safed]] mystics was meditation while prostrated on the graves of saints, in order to commune with their souls.

====Hayim Vital====
[[Haim Vital]] (c. 1543–1620), major disciple of [[Isaac Luria]], and responsible for publication of most of his works. In [[Primary texts of Kabbalah#Etz Hayim and the Eight Gates|Etz Hayim and the Eight Gates]] he describes the theosophical and meditative teachings of Luria. However, his own writings cover wider meditative methods, drawn from earlier sources. His ''Shaarei Kedusha'' (Gates of Holiness) was the only guidebook to Meditative Kabbalah traditionally printed, though its most esoteric fourth part remained unpublished until recently. In the following account Vital presents the method of R. [[Yosef Karo]] in receiving his Heavenly [[Magid (Jewish mysticism)|Magid]] teacher, which he regarded as the soul of the [[Mishna]] (recorded by Karo in Magid Mesharim):
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Meditate alone in a house, wrapped in a prayer shawl. Sit and shut your eyes, and transcend the physical as if your soul has left your body and is ascending to heaven. After this divestment/ascension, recite one [[Mishna]], any Mishna you wish, many times consecutively, as quickly as you can, with clear pronunciation, without skipping one word. Intend to bind your soul with the soul of the sage who taught this Mishna.
" Your soul will become a chariot. .."

Do this by intending that your mouth is a mere vessel/[[Conduit (spiritualism)|conduit]] to bring forth the letters of the words of this Mishna, and that the voice that emerges through the vessel of your mouth is [filled with] the sparks of your inner soul which are emerging and reciting this Mishna. In this way, your soul will become a chariot within which the soul of the sage who is the master of that Mishna can manifest. His soul will then clothe itself within your soul.

At a certain point in the process of reciting the words of the Mishna, you may feel overcome by exhaustion. If you are worthy, the soul of this sage may then come to reside in your mouth. This will happen in the midst of your reciting the Mishna. As you recite, he will begin to speak with your mouth and wish you Shalom. He will then answer every question that comes into your thoughts to ask him. He will do this with and through your mouth. Your ears will hear his words, for you will not be speaking from yourself. Rather, he will be speaking through you. This is the mystery of the verse, "The spirit of God spoke to me, and His word was on my lips". (Samuel II 23:2)<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.kabbalaonline.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/380371/jewish/Meditation-on-a-Mishna.htm |title=Meditation on a Mishna |publisher=Kabbalah Online |last=Sutton |first=Avraham |date=2001 |access-date=2012-04-03 ))</ref>
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==Hasidism==

===The Baal Shem Tov===
[[File:A man prays at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.jpg|thumb|upright|Hasidic prayer often emphasizes emotional ''[[dveikut]]'' (cleaving to God), especially through attachment to the [[Tzadik|Tzaddik]].]]
((See also|Devekut))
The [[Baal Shem Tov]], founder of [[Hasidic Judaism]], took the [[Talmud]]ic phrase that "God desires the heart" and made it central to his love of the sincerity of the common folk. Advocating joy in the omnipresent [[divine immanence]], he encouraged emotional ''[[devekut]]'' (fervour), especially through attachment to the Hasidic figure of the [[Tzaddik]]. He also encouraged his close disciples to find ''devekut'' through seclusion (''[[hisbodedus]]'') from others and by meditating on select kabbalistic unifications (''[[yichudim]]'') of [[Isaac Luria|Yitzchak Luria]].<ref>((Cite web|url=http://solitude-hisbodedus.blogspot.com/2009/03/secluded-meditation-baal-shem-tov.html|title=Tzava'as HaRivash 82|last=Baal Shem Tov|website=Solitude|date=2 March 2009 |access-date=2019-06-17))</ref> As Hasidism developed and became a popular revival movement, use of esoteric [[Kabbalistic]] [[Kavanah|Kavanot]] (intentions) on Divine names was seen as an impediment to direct emotional Devekut (cleaving to God), and was dropped in favour of new meditative and contemplative practices of Divine consciousness.<ref>''Studies in East European Jewish Mysticism and Hasidism'', Joseph Weiss, Littman Library: chapter "The Kavvanoth of Prayer in Early Hasidism".</ref> This downplaying of the [[Theurgy|theurgic]] role of Theosophical Kabbalah, the psychologisation of Kabbalistic symbolism, and emphasis on [[Atzmus|Divine Omnipresence]], began with the Baal Shem Tov. In a parable he related that knowing each of the detailed Kabbalistic Kavanot in prayer unlocked individual gates in Heaven, but tears break through all barriers to reach the King Himself.

===Chabad Hasidism===
[[File:Ford Madox Brown 003.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Breslov (Hasidic dynasty)|Breslov]] Hasidim spend time in secluded communication of their heart to God. In Jewish communities they often seek this solitude in Nature at night.]]
[[File:Prayers in Kutaisi synagogue.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Chabad]] differed from mainstream Hasidism in its preparation for prayer by intellectual contemplation of [[Hasidic philosophy]].]]
[[Dovber Schneuri]], the second leader of the [[Chabad]] Dynasty, wrote several works explaining the Chabad approach. In his works, he explains that the [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] word for meditation is ''hisbonenus'' (alternatively transliterated as ''hitbonenut''). The word ''hisbonenut'' derives from the Hebrew word ''Binah'' (lit. understanding) and refers to the process of understanding through analytical study. While the word ''hisbonenus'' can be applied to analytical study of any topic, it is generally used to refer to study of the [[Torah]], and particularly in this context, the explanations of Kabbalah in Chabad [[Hasidic philosophy]], in order to achieve a greater understanding and appreciation of God.

In the Chabad presentation, every intellectual process must incorporate three faculties: ''[[Chochma]]'', ''[[Binah (Kabbalah)|Binah]]'', and ''[[Daat]]''. ''Chochma'' (lit. wisdom) is the mind's ability to come up with a new insight into a concept that one did not know before. ''Binah'' (lit. understanding) is the mind's ability to take a new insight (from ''Chochma''), analyze all of its implications and simplify the concept so it is understood well. ''Daat'' (lit. knowledge), the third stage, is the mind's ability to focus and hold its attention on the ''Chochma'' and the ''Binah''.

The term ''hisbonenus'' represents an important point of the Chabad method: Chabad Hasidic philosophy rejects the notion that any new insight can come from mere concentration. Chabad philosophy explains that while ''Daat'' is a necessary component of cognition, it is like an empty vessel without the learning and analysis and study that comes through the faculty of ''Binah''. Just as a scientist's new insight or discovery (''Chochma'') always results from prior in-depth study and analysis of his topic (''Binah''), likewise, to gain any insight in godliness can only come through in-depth study of the explanations of Kabbalah and Hasidic philosophy.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.kabbalaonline.org/Meditations/jewishmeditation/Active_vs.Passive_Meditation.asp |title=Active vs.Passive Meditation |access-date=October 14, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050124200908/http://www.kabbalaonline.org/Meditations/jewishmeditation/Active_vs.Passive_Meditation.asp |archive-date=January 24, 2005 )) Active vs.Passive_Meditation</ref> In this view, enlightenment is commensurate with one's understanding of the Torah and specifically the explanations of Kabbalah and Hasidic philosophy. Prolonged concentration devoid of intellectual content, or hallucinations of the imagination, should not be mistaken for spiritual enlightenment.

Chabad accepts and endorses the writings of Kabbalists such as Moses Cordovero and Haim Vital and their works are quoted at length in the Hasidic texts. However, the Chabad masters say that their methods are easily misunderstood without a proper foundation in Hasidic philosophy.

===Breslav Hasidism===
Rebbe [[Nachman of Breslov]] used the term ''[[hisbodedus]]'' (alternatively transliterated as ''hitbodedut'', from the root "boded" meaning "self-seclusion") to refer to an unstructured, spontaneous and individualized form of prayer and meditation. It may involve speaking to God in one's own words, although Rebbe Nachman teaches that if one does not know what to say, one should repeat the words "Ribbono Shel Olam," which will create a heightened state of awareness.<ref>((Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aX9FAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA91|title=Meditation and Judaism: Exploring the Jewish Meditative Paths|last=Pinson|first=DovBer|date=2004-11-04|publisher=Jason Aronson, Incorporated|isbn=9781461629528|language=en))</ref> The goals of ''hitbodedut'' may include establishing a close, personal relationship with God and a clearer understanding of one's personal motives and goals or (as in Likutey Moharan I, Lesson 52) the transformative realization of God as the "Imperative Existent," or Essence of Reality.

==The Musar Movement==
[[File:Israel Meir Poupko, tefillin.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Yisrael Meir Kagan|Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaCohen Kagan]] at prayer]]
((Main|Musar movement))
The Musar (ethics) movement, founded by Rabbi [[Israel Salanter]] in the middle of the 19th century, encouraged meditative practices of introspection and visualization that could help to improve moral character. Focusing on the truthful psychological self-evaluation of one's spiritual worship, the Musar movement institutionalized the classic [[musar literature]] tradition as a spiritual movement within the [[Lithuanian Jews|Lithuanian]] [[Yeshiva]] academies. Many meditation techniques were described in the writings of Salanter's closest disciple, Rabbi [[Simcha Zissel Ziv]].<ref>((Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DSOLCgAAQBAJ&q=meditation|title=Sharing the Burden: Rabbi Simhah Zissel Ziv and the Path of Musar|last=Claussen|first=Geoffrey D.|date=2015-09-11|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=9781438458359|language=en))</ref>

According to [[Geoffrey Claussen]] of [[Elon University]], some forms of Musar meditation are visualization techniques which "seek to make impressions upon one's character—often a matter of taking insights of which we are conscious and bringing them into our unconscious."  Other forms of Musar meditation are introspective, "considering one's character and exploring its tendencies—often a matter of taking what is unconscious and bringing it to consciousness."  A number of contemporary rabbis have advocated such practices, including "taking time each day to sit in silence and simply noticing the way that one's mind wanders."<ref name=":1">((Cite journal|last=Claussen|first=Geoffrey|title=The Practice of Musar|url=https://www.academia.edu/1502958|journal=Conservative Judaism|date=January 2012 |language=en))</ref> [[Alan Morinis]], the founder of the Mussar Institute, recommends morning meditation practices that can be as short as four minutes.<ref name=":0">((Cite book|title=Everyday holiness : the Jewish spiritual path of Mussar|last=Morinis|first=Alan|date=2011|publisher=Trumpeter|isbn=9780834822214|pages=269|oclc=853448587))</ref> One of the meditations especially recommended by Morinis is the practice of focusing on a single word: the Hebrew word ''Sh'ma,'' meaning "listen."((r|:0|p=270))

== Orthodox Judaism ==
Recent [[Orthodox Judaism]] teachers of Jewish mystical meditation methods include [[Aryeh Kaplan]] and [[Yitzchak Ginsburgh]]. Kaplan especially, published scholarly and popular books that reinterpreted and revived historic Jewish mystical contemplation techniques in terms of the late 20th century [[zeitgeist]] for [[meditation]].

== Conservative Judaism ==
[[Conservative Judaism|Conservative]] Rabbi [[Alan Lew]] has been credited with teaching Jewish meditation to thousands of people.<ref>((Cite web|url=http://beyondchron.org/the-force-of-rabbi-alan-lew/|title=The 'Force' of Rabbi Alan Lew|last=Cash|first=Jay Jonah|date=2009-01-15|website=Beyond Chron|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-26))</ref> His synagogue Congregation Beth Sholom in San Francisco, California, includes a meditation center, the first meditation center connected to a Conservative synagogue.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-316-73910-8|title=Nonfiction Book Review: Be Still and Get Going: A Jewish Meditation Practice for Real Life by Alan Lew, Author . Little, Brown $14.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-316-73910-8|website=PublishersWeekly.com|language=en|access-date=2019-07-26))</ref><ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.jweekly.com/2009/01/14/rabbi-alan-lew-influential-zen-rabbi-dies-suddenly-at-65/|title=Rabbi Alan Lew, influential Zen rabbi, dies suddenly at 65|last=Palevsky|first=Stacey|date=2009-01-14|website=J.|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-26))</ref> By 1997, Lew noted that almost all of the largest Conservative synagogues in northern California had regular meditation groups.<ref>''Meditation from the Heart of Judaism'', ed. Avram Davis, p. 51.</ref> Conservative rabbi [[Geoffrey Claussen]] has encouraged Conservative Judaism to adopt meditation practices from the [[Musar movement]].<ref name=":1" /> Conservative synagogues that promote meditation practices in the 21st century sometimes describe these practices as helping people to create space in their lives to be present.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/jewish-meditation/|title=The Meditation Mitzvah|last=Shorr|first=Jon|date=2018-05-03|website=Tricycle: The Buddhist Review|language=en|access-date=2019-07-28))</ref>

== Reconstructionist Judaism ==
[[Reconstructionist Judaism|Reconstructionist]] rabbis such as [[Sheila Peltz Weinberg]]<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/profile/rabbi-sheila-peltz-weinberg|title=Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg|website=Reconstructing Judaism|language=en|access-date=2019-08-14))</ref> and [[Shefa Gold]]<ref>((Cite book|title=Stalking Elijah: Adventures with Today's Jewish Mystical Masters|last=Kamenetz|first=Rodger|publisher=Harper Collins|year=1997))</ref> have been noted for their Jewish meditation teachings.<ref>((Cite book|title=From Ideology to Liturgy: Reconstructionist worship and American liberal Judaism|last=Caplan|first=Eric|year=2002))</ref>

== Reform Judaism ==
Meditation activities have become increasingly common at Reform synagogues in the twenty-first century.<ref>((Cite book|title=The New Reform Judaism: Challenges and Reflections|last=Kaplan|first=Dana Evan|pages=290))</ref>  Rabbis [[Lawrence Kushner]] and [[Rami M. Shapiro|Rami Shapiro]] are among the Reform rabbis who encourage Jewish meditation practices.<ref>''Meditation from the Heart of Judaism'', ed. Avram Davis.</ref>

==See also==
*[[Fear of God (religion)]]
*[[Jewish views on love]]
*[[Love of God]]
*[[Nigun]]
*[[Ohr]]
*[[Teshuvah]]
*[[Tzedakah]]

==References==
((Reflist))

==Bibliography==
* [[Abraham Abulafia|Abulafia, Abraham]], ''The Heart of Jewish Meditation: Abraham Abulafia's Path of the Divine Names'', Hadean Press, 2013.
*Davis, Avram. ''Meditation from the Heart of Judaism: Today's Teachers Share Their Practices, Techniques, and Faith,'' 1997.
* [[Louis Jacobs|Jacobs, Louis]], ''Jewish Mystical Testimonies'', Schocken, 1997, ((ISBN|0-8052-1091-1))
* [[Louis Jacobs|Jacobs, Louis]], ''Hasidic Prayer'', Littman Library, 2006, ((ISBN|978-1-874774-18-1))
* [[Louis Jacobs|Jacobs, Louis]] (translator), ''Tract on Ecstasy'' by [[Dovber Schneuri|Dobh Baer of Lubavitch]], Vallentine Mitchell, 2006, ((ISBN|978-0-85303-590-9))
* [[Aryeh Kaplan|Kaplan, Aryeh]], ''Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide'', Schocken, New York, 1995, ((ISBN|0-8052-1037-7))
* [[Aryeh Kaplan|Kaplan, Aryeh]], ''Meditation and the Bible'', Weiser Books, 1995, ASIN B0007MSMJM
* [[Aryeh Kaplan|Kaplan, Aryeh]], ''Meditation and Kabbalah'', Weiser Books, 1989, ((ISBN|0-87728-616-7))
*Lew, Alan. ''Be Still and Get Going: A Jewish Meditation Practice for Real Life'', 2005.
* Pinson, Rav DovBer, ''Meditation and Judaism'', Jason Aronson, Inc, 2004. ((ISBN|0765700077)) 
* Pinson, Rav DovBer, ''Toward the Infinite'', Jason Aronson, Inc, 2005. ((ISBN|0742545121)) 
* Pinson, Rav DovBer, ''Eight Lights: Eight Meditations for Chanukah'', IYYUN, 2010. ((ISBN|978-0978666378)) 
* Roth, Rabbi Jeff, ''Jewish Meditation Practices for Everyday Life'', Jewish Lights Publishing, 2009, [http://www.awakenedheartproject.org/ 978-1-58023-397-2]
*Russ-Fishbane, Elisha. ''Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt: A Study of Abraham Maimonides and His Times''. Oxford University Press, 2015, ((ISBN|019872876X))
* [[Dovber Schneuri|Schneuri, Dovber]], ''Ner Mitzva Vetorah Or'', Kehot Publication Society, 1995/2003, ((ISBN|0-8266-5496-7))
* Seinfeld, Alexander, ''The Art of Amazement: Discover Judaism's Forgotten Spirituality'', JSL Press 2010, ((ISBN|0-9717229-1-9))

==External links==
*[https://www.academia.edu/5514092/The_Heart_of_Jewish_Meditation_Abraham_Abulafia_s_Path_of_the_Divine_Names The Heart of Jewish Meditation: Abraham Abulafia's Path of the Divine Names]

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