{"product_id":"i-am-prayer-an-embodied-yom-kippur-companion","title":"I Am Prayer: An Embodied Yom Kippur Companion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI Am Prayer: An Embodied Yom Kippur Companion\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautifully illustrated companion for reimagining Yom Kippur—not as a day of guilt, deprivation, and passive atonement, but as an embodied portal into transformation, prophetic action, ecstatic consciousness, and collective care. Through poetic essays, mystical reflections, somatic liturgies, and practice-based invitations, this collection asks what becomes possible when we approach the holiest day of the Jewish year with our full bodies, hearts, and imaginations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on ancient Temple ritual, psychedelic understandings of fasting, embodied prayer practices, and a reappraisal of the prophet Isaiah’s call to “unlock the fetters of wickedness,” these writings explore Yom Kippur as a portal of awakening: a day for entering the Holy of Holies within ourselves, dissolving the boundaries between ritual and action, spirit and body, inner transformation and communal responsibility, so as to emerge renewed. Contributors envision a Yom Kippur that is both ancient and urgently contemporary, inviting readers to move beyond symbolic repentance and toward lived, embodied teshuvah.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrinted on high-quality paper stock with lush full-color artwork, this companion is an invitation to fast, pray, envision, heal, organize, align, and begin again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerfect for: spiritual seekers, mystics, organizers, embodied practitioners, psychedelic explorers, independent Jews, and anyone longing for a more transformative encounter with Yom Kippur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the contributors:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEden Pearlstein\u003c\/strong\u003e is an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary lan­guage artist and cofounder\/editorial direc­tor of Ayin Press. Over the past two decades he has created an eclectic portfolio of audio, visual, textual, and curatorial works and projects. Eden is the author of \u003cem\u003eNoth­ing Is for Every­one: Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, edi­tor of \u003cem\u003eSelah: A Bayo Ako­mo­lafe Read­er\u003c\/em\u003e, and cre­ative con­trib­u­tor to \u003cem\u003eSUR­VI­VA: A Future Ances­tral Field Guide\u003c\/em\u003e by Can­nu­pa Han­s­ka Luger. Eden cur­rent­ly lives with his wife and two kids in Philadelphia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRabbi Nate DeGroot\u003c\/strong\u003e (he\/him) directs The Shalom Center, carrying forth the prophetic legacy of the organization’s founder, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, by helping to steward and seed an emergent Jewish sacred justice. Nate lives in Detroit, Michigan with his wife and two kiddos, where he also serves locally as a part-time congregational rabbi, educator, and service-leader. Nate was ordained at Hebrew College in 2016 and previously worked at Hazon (now Adamah) in Detroit, IKAR in Los Angeles, and he founded Mikdash in Portland, OR.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRabbi Jill Hammer\u003c\/strong\u003e, PhD, author, scholar, ritualist, poet, dreamworker and midrashist, is the Director of Learning and Ritual at Beit Kohenet, a house of Jewish, mystical, earth-based, feminist seeking (beitkohenet.org) and the Director of Spiritual Education at the Academy for Jewish Religion, a pluralistic rabbinical and cantorial seminary (www.ajr.edu). She is the author of \u003cem\u003eUndertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreaming\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Omer Calendar of Biblical Women\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eReturn to the Place: The Magic, Meditation, and Mystery of Sefer Yetzirah\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and New Visions of Jewish Women’s Spiritual Leadership\u003c\/em\u003e (with Taya Shere), \u003cem\u003eThe Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSisters at Sinai: New Tales of Biblical Women\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Earth and Other Mysteries\u003c\/em\u003e, and a novel called \u003cem\u003eThe Moonstone Covenant\u003c\/em\u003e.  She is the translator of \u003cem\u003eThe Romemu Siddur\u003c\/em\u003e and of \u003cem\u003eSiddur haKohanot: A Hebrew Priestess Prayerbook\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in Manhattan with her family. Her work can also be found at jillhammer.net and themoonstonecovenant.net.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarcia Meislin\u003c\/strong\u003e is a leadership coach and facilitator who draws on her training in Gestalt therapy to integrate body, mind, and spirit. She brings this lens to her Jewish practice and community, where prayer is infused with joy, music, movement, and creative ritual. Author of a memoir on food addiction and recovery, Marcia values meaningful connection and shares her enthusiasm for life with her beloved husband, children, extended family, and treasured friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson\u003c\/strong\u003e is the fourth-most-popular queer neo-kabbalistic psychedelics scholar to have published a short story collection with Ayin Press. He has also written books about Jacob Frank, panentheism, and the redemption of ordinary sadness. For thirty years, Jay has practiced what Eden Pearlstein calls \"Operation Bifurcation,\" which these days involves writing the weekly newsletter Both\/And with Jay Michaelson (jaymichaelson.substack.com) and researching mystical experience at the Emory Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality. He does not own a parakeet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJessica Tamar Deutsch\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Brooklyn-based visual artist. Her work plays at the border of experimentation and tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 20 pages | $18.00\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ayin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44240447570100,"sku":"YKZINE01","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0561\/0776\/1844\/files\/Yom-Kippur-Jay_Michalson.jpg?v=1780352428","url":"https:\/\/shop.ayinpress.org\/products\/i-am-prayer-an-embodied-yom-kippur-companion","provider":"Ayin Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}