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Continue reading →: I Changed My Mind (Yom Kippur Sermon 5785)
Last night I fell asleep on the subway and missed my stop. I got off the train at the next stop, and fortunately the opposite-direction train arrived right then, so I got on, backtracked one stop, and went home. Simple, right? A Turkish proverb states, “No matter how far you’ve…
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Continue reading →: “Chaplain, Can You Do an Exorcism?”
One of the most intriguing questions I’ve encountered in my psychiatric chaplaincy practice is whether I can exorcise a patient. Between Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute in San Francisco and Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Boston, I’ve worked with some 30 psychiatric inpatients who approached me with concerns about possession by the devil,…
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Continue reading →: Four Children, Four Worlds: Kabbalah Teaching at the Hartford Street Zen Center
How do the Four Children of the Pesach seder help us see the Four Worlds of Kabbalah? In this teaching, I present the Four Children as an allegory illustrating the Four Worlds in a Zen context at San Francisco’s Hartford Street Zen Center: https://hszc.org/2018/02/02/guest-speaker-rabbi-jeremy-d-sher-m-div-february-3rd/
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Continue reading →: Kabbalah Teaching at the Hartford Street Zen Center
Listen to my first of two Kabbalah teachings at San Francisco’s Hartford Street Zen Center here: https://hszc.org/2017/08/05/august-5-2017-rabbi-jeremy-d-sher-m-div/
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Living in Oakland, practicing in San Francisco and Seoul. Rabbi and chaplain. Socially outspoken. Recognized authority on demon possession in psychiatry. Speaker, writer, and teacher.
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