Rabbi Shefa Gold

Rabbi Shefa Gold received her ordination both from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, and is the director of C-DEEP, The Center for Devotional, Energy and Ecstatic Practice. Shefa has produced 10 albums, and is the author of four books. Her new project, Love at the Center, is an immersion in “The Song of Songs,” a mystical text that is meant to transform our lives so that we can transform the world. You can reach her through the website: www.RabbiShefaGold.com.

Essays

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Love at the Center

When we stand before the Great Mystery in a state of calm, alert clarity, we shed all the layers of distraction, turbulence and conditioning and truly have freedom of choice.

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To Be a Mystic-Activist

To be a mystic-activist means that I must live in the light of what I know to be true. Through this light, I must heal the racism that is my conditioning and find the deeper knowing that we are one Being.

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