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Title: Your Word Is Fire: The Hasidic Masters on Contemplative Prayer (A Jewish Lights Classic Reprint) by Arthur Green, Barry W. Holtz, Translators ISBN: 1-879045-25-7 Publisher: Jewish Lights Pub Pub. Date: November, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Your Word is Fire - Is A Spiritural Retreat
Comment: The authors have managed to create in this small volume a source book of meditation. The words of the Hasidic Masters have carefully been selected in such a way that each page is a meditation.

I have had this book in my library for many years,and return to it over an over again for comfort and wisdom.

Rating: 4
Summary: Your Word is Fire - Is A Spiritural Retreat
Comment: The Authors have managed to create in this small volume a source book of meditation. The words of the Hasidic Masters have carefully been selected in such a way that each page is a meditation.

I have had this book in my library for many years,and return to it over an over again for comfort and wisdom.

Rating: 5
Summary: Exploring the Mystery of Prayer
Comment: This is a wonderful, wonderful reader in Hasidic perspectives on prayer. The book blossoms with deep insights into the spiritual dynamic between God and humans. Please consider the following:

"A father has a young child whom he greatly loves. Even though the child has hardly learned to speak, his father takes pleasure in listening to his words." (p. 102)

There is something both bold and humbling about and such a perspective on prayer. God is not only King, but Father as well. The Infinite One is both large and small, far and near.

Many of the different dynamics of prayer are explored in this work, each in its own section, and everything is referenced at the end of the book. The book opens with an academic essay that provides a good context for the Hasidic exploration of the vast sea of prayer, the experience of union with the Divine Presence (p. 80). As with most readers, any background knowledge of Hasidism is helpful, but at the same time not necessary to have in order to be touched by the wisdom of these mystics.

I think, though, that this book needs to be approached as an open door to the myster of prayer. Rather than just being read, it should be tested: to approach God as a child who is unable to speak is a humbling thing. To persist, nonetheless, and draw close to God as God draws us and pulls us close is to experience God's love. The reader of this book will have some far reaching light as s/he travels and progresses down the path of such prayer.

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