Jay Michaelson

Jay Michaelson is a columnist for the ForwardZeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture (which he co-founded in 2002), and Reality Sandwich magazines, and the executive director of Nehirim: GLBT Jewish Culture & Spirituality.  He recently returned (in February 2009) from five months of silent meditation retreat in Massachusetts and Nepal.  Jay is the author of God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness, and Embodied Spiritual Practice (2007), Another Word for Sky: Poems (2008), and Everything is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism (2009). A recent visiting professor at Boston University Law School, Jay has taught at Yale University, City College, Elat Chayyim, the Wexner Summer Institute, and many other institutions. Jay holds an M.A. in Religious Studies from Hebrew University, where he currently is pursuing his Ph.D., as well as a J.D. from Yale and B.A. from Columbia.

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Blogging the Cleanse #5: The Routinization of Fasting

Okay, so to get to the important stuff first: no, I didn't get a colonic.…

Blogging the Cleanse #4: Suddenly, I Feel Like Dancing

            I mean, I guess you can get used to anything.  Dukkha day is over,…

Blogging the Cleanse #3: Dukkha Day

Well, today was harder. Dukkha day, they'd call it on a meditation retreat; the "day…

Blogging the Cleanse #2: Just Like Beyonce

I feel like Oprah Winfrey. 48 hours without food, and I must've dropped five pounds…

Blogging the Cleanse, #1: Why I Am Going To Fast For Six Days and Drink Nothing But Lemonade

What happens when a New York overachiever goes without food for a week, consuming only…

Defining “God”

"Talking past each other" happens when two parties in a debate use the same term…

Yom Kippur and Nonduality

What is the meaning of repentance, if everything is God? On the purely cognitive level,…

My Journey to Flexidoxy – or, At Home on the Slippery Slope

1. Weaving When I was in my twenties, I wrote a book on the philosophy…