Meditation from Sinai - Lesson 6

Mind and Matter

The Influences of Meditation on Practice, and of Practice on Meditation

With Rabbi Ari Sollish

(Recorded live at the Intown Jewish Academy on March 1, 2022)

In Judaism, meditation is not just an ascetic practice; rather, it is directly harnessed to the real world through practical mitzvot. This lesson explores the fascinating two-way relationship between mitzvot and meditation: meditation and intention lend purpose to the mitzvot, but mitzvot also elicit meditative effects and are themselves a form of meditation.