Magic of the Ordinary: Recovering the Shamanic in Judaism

Rabbi Gershon Winkler’s travels in New Mexico brought him in contact with the nations of the Dineh, the Jicarilla Apache, the Walatowa, and the Zia, and he began to recover piecemeal the long lost wisdom of what he terms Aboriginal Judaism . Winkler came to understand deeply why the ancient Hebrew word for wilderness , mid'bar, means that which resonates , and he began to understand the earth-based significance of his own Jewish traditional ceremonies, rediscovering the continuing vital stream of shamanic teachings in ancient Jewish texts.