Rabbi Rami
Religions are like languages: no language is true or false; all languages are of human origin; each language reflects and shapes the civilization that speaks it; there are things you can say in one language that you cannot say or say as well in another; and the more languages you speak, the more nuanced your understanding of life becomes. Yet it is silence that reveals the ultimate Truth:
אֵ֥ין ע֖וד מִלְבַדֽו/ein od milvado
There is nothing other than God (Deut 4:35).
God as I experience God is YHVH or what Rabbi Menachem Nachum Twersky (1730-1787) called Chiut: nondual Aliveness manifesting reality the way an ocean waves all waves. My experience of YHVH/Chiut leads me to Perennial Wisdom, the four-fold truth at the mystic heart of all religions:
• All life is a manifesting of nondual Aliveness called by many names: Chiut, Brahman, Allah, YHVH, God Mother, Great Spirit, Dharmakaya, among others.
• You have the innate capacity to awaken in, with, and as this Aliveness.
• Awakening to Aliveness calls you to live by the Golden Rule – what is hateful to you do not do to another – in service to being a blessing to all the families of the earth (Genesis 12:3).
• Awakening to Aliveness and being a blessing comprise your highest calling as a human being.
Perennial Wisdom is the foundation of all my writing and teaching.
Writing is central to my spiritual practice. I write about Perennial Wisdom, Judaism, Twelve-Step Recovery, the Divine Mother, Spirituality, and Religion in over three dozen books available from your local bookstore or amazon.com.
Explore Spirituality (formerly Spirituality & Health podcast) is my bi-weekly podcast tailored for free thinkers and the spiritually independent. Explore Spirituality blends interviews with leading thinkers investigating the cutting edge of human consciousness and civilization, with listener’s questions left on our Caller’s Line. Explore Spirituality is produced by Ezra Bakker Trupiano, and our executive producer is Frank Levy. To subscribe to the podcast and submit questions click HERE.
My friend Frank Levy and I of
fer online and in-person seminars and retreats at our One River Wisdom School. We currently offer four programs scheduled for 2024: One Foot Judaism, a radical revisioning of Judaism, Perennial Wisdom, a deep dive into the mystic heart of the world’s religions, Days of Awe for the World, a mystical reimagining of the Jewish High Holy Days, and National Be a Blessing Day an online gathering exploring how to make the world a better place for our having been born into it. To learn more and to register for any or all of our programs, click HERE.
While I hope you find my work of value, in the end, the only thing that matters is this:
אֵ֥ין ע֖וד מִלְבַדֽו/ein od milvado
There is nothing other than God (Deut 4:35).
