My life in Jewish renewal : a memoir / Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi ; with Edward Hoffman.
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| Other title: | Schachter-Shalomi Collection. Chava Weissler Collection. |
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| Language: | English |
| Donor: | Archives copy 1 gift of Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi. |
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Table of Contents:
- Origins
- A Viennese boyhood
- Austria under Hitler
- Diamond-cutting & hasidim in Antwerp
- War : French internment camps
- Revelations in Marseilles
- Voyage to America
- Encountering the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe
- The making of a hasid
- A fledgling hasidic rabbi : outreach in New Haven
- Raising the klippot in Rochester, New York
- My own pulpit in Fall River, Massachussetts
- Caribbean travels : voodoo & mitzvah missions
- Widening horizons : from New Bedford to Boston University
- Jewish innovation in Manitoba
- Adventures with Catholic monasticism
- My first trip to the Holy Land
- Qumran, USA : my plan for Jewish communality
- Hasidic counseling : new explorations
- Psychedelics with Timothy Leary
- My friend Thomas Merton & the ecumenical quest
- Walks with Abraham Maslow
- Abraham Heschel : my mentor & friend
- Leaving Chabad : the fallout from my Washington, DC lecture
- The San Francisco counter-culture & neo-hasidism
- Moving to Philadelphia : the founding of P'nai Or
- Epilogue : whither Jewish renewal?
- Gerald Heard, my "Irish rebbe"
- Rabbi Heschel Matt
- Breakthroughs in Milwaukee
- The Dalai Lama
- Unfulfilled projects.