I have read most of Rami Shapiro’s books and I am an unqualified fan. He presents a flexible and appealing non-dual version of Judaism which I believe is one way for people to get involved in Judaism without having to literally buy into many things they can no longer believe.
Rabbi Shapiro here defines God as: “The Happening happening as all happening” which is a version of the name God provided Moses on Sinai. This is not a personal god but the very ground of being, which is not ground at all, but process. Another of his similes is that Reality is God) and Reality is the ocean, and individual beings, like us, are merely waves in that great ocean. We think we are free, detached entities, but we are always a part of Reality, of God, and eventually, we return to Reality.
This book is for anyone, Jewish or not, who would like to embrace a religion for grownups.
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