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Writings
Explore Sarah Yehudit’s teachings on Torah, Kabbalah,
meditation,
and the Jewish holidays.
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Evolution, Form and Consciousness
An Exploration of the Jewish and Scientific Perspectives on Creation by Sarah Yehudit (Susan) Schneider This article can be viewed in pdf format. This article was published in B’or Hatorah: Science, the Arts, and Problems of Modern Life in the Light of the Torah. #4, Summer 1984 (Shamir: Jerusalem, Israel). p. 15-38. It is a popular misconception that Torah and science present two competing and mutually exclusive accounts of the Creation story. However, if Jews of opposite o
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Miryam’s Circle Dance
This essay can be viewed in adobe pdf format. This essay has been extracted from Sarah Yehudit’s larger study on the nature of gender in Kabbala. Please visit Kabbalistic Writings on the Nature of Masculine and Feminine to read a summary and browse through this book or buy it directly. by Rav Kalonymous Kalman HaLevi Epstein (The Meor V’Shemesh)[1] Presented and Elucidated by Sarah Yehudit Schneider Bare Bones Literacy Summary: Miryam’s Circle Dance by Meor V’Shemesh on Parsh
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Textual Study As Meditation
This article can be viewed in adobe pdf format. This essay was published in Meditation from the Heart of Judaism, edited by Avram Davis and can be purchased at amazon.com by Sarah Yehudit (Susie) Schneider • The service of meditation is the spiritual and intellectual quest to know, comprehend, and feel an idea or truth of Torah to the fullest extent possible. By pursuing a matter to its depth, one draws his inherited and instinctive knowledge of God into a more revealed and
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Studying Prayerfully
This essay can also be viewed in pdf format. This essay was published in Bread and Fire: Jewish Women Find God in the Everyday, Rivkah Slonim (editor), (Urim Publications, Jerusalem), p. 75-79, which can be purchased at amazon.com and urimpublications.com Avi, Adoni, Dodi , My father, my master, my friend, my beloved. I enter into this study in order to draw close to You – for the sake of holy service and the fulfillment of Your will for me and for all of Israel and for this
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The Underside Of Creative Expression
This article can also be viewed in adobe pdf format. This article was published in B’Or HaTorah: Science, the Arts and Problems of Modern life in the Light of Torah: #7, 1991 [ISBN 965-293-013-X] (Shamir: Jerusalem, Israel). p. 97-105. The Underside Of Creative Expression by Sarah Yehudit (Susan) Schneider Before the creative act which brought our present universe into being, G‑d existed in a state of undifferentiated, infinitely potent Light which, figuratively speaking, was
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