According to his bio, Neil Douglas-Klotz was “very privileged to study with the early students of the American Hebrew/Sufi mystic Samuel L. Lewis, who introduced me to the body prayer meditations called the Dances of Universal Peace.”  It is from that mystical perspective that Neil Douglas-Klotz interprets the Lord’s Prayer from the Aramaic.
In the first [...]

My parents are immigrants from the Netherlands.  Growing up, they did not speak a lot of Dutch, but occasionally would share a line in their native tongue.  Often, when asked what the line meant, they would respond that it was something that was difficult to translate.  It had meaning to them, but there was no [...]