The Akedah Project: David Gottlieb, The Akedah and the Shaping of Jewish Memory
How do stories shape Jewish memory?
“How does the culture itself remember its own history, its own archetypal stories and the tension between the two? What do we do when the tension between our current circumstances and our foundational stories is so great that something has to give.”
Learn more about the Akedah and the shaping of Jewish memory with David Gottlieb, scholar of Jewish studies and author of Second Slayings, at The Akedah Project.
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Eli Talks: A Journey Toward Jewish Mindfulness
Think that only the Buddhists have mastered mindfulness? David Gottlieb wants to challenge your thinking on that. How has Judaism decluttered the mind and soothed the soul--even in the middle of the chaos of preparing for Shabbat?
Find an authentic mindfulness practice without abandoning your tradition.
Filmed at the William Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum in Atlanta, Georgia in cooperation with the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.
David Gottlieb is a student and teacher of Jewish mindfulness practice. He began studying meditation in the Zen Buddhist tradition in 1998, and in the Jewish tradition shortly thereafter. David is co-founder of Full Circle Communities, a Chicago-based nonprofit developer of affordable housing and provider of supportive services. He is also currently a PhD candidate in the History of Judaism at the University of Chicago Divinity School.