When Oceans Merge

The Contemporary Sufi and Hasidic teachings of Pir Vilayat Khan and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Gregory Blann and Netanel Miles-Yépez

Adam Kadmon Books

Paperback
978-1-939681-99-7
US $28.95 /CAN $41.95
Ebook
978-1-948626-00-2
US $18.95
March 2019

This is a book about the intersection of Sufi and Hasidic wisdom as gleaned from the lives and teachings of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, the founder of the Jewish Renewal Movement and Pir Vilayat Khan, the head and spiritual director of the Sufi Order of the West. The foreword is by Netanel Miles-Yépez who is one of the founders of the Adam Kadmon Book imprint as well as a Pir and founder of a Jewish-Sufi lineage which was blessed and inspired by Reb Zalman and Pir Vilayat. Reb Zalman and Pir Vilayat knew and held each other in the highest regard while still living. Indeed they were initiated into each other’s spiritual community. More than anything, this book shows how a deep spirituality can be developed that is rooted in religious tradition but transcends it.

Gregory Blann, also known as Muhammad Jamal al-Jerrahi, is a sheikh in the Halveti-Jerrahi order of Dervishes and the author of Lifting the Boundaries: Muzaffer Efendi and the Transmission of Sufism to the West and The Garden of Mystic Love: The Origin and Formation of the Great Sufi Orders.

Netanel Miles-Yépez is an artist and religious scholar. Born into a Mexican-American family, in his late teens, Miles-Yépez discovered his family’s hidden Jewish roots and began to explore Judaism and other religions seriously. He teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at Naropa.

"For centuries the spiritual cross-pollination between Jewish mystics and Sufi saints has enriched both traditions. When Oceans Merge invites you to learn from two great contemporary mystics, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, and to awaken to the Perennial Wisdom each of them shares. When Oceans Merge is a powerful antidote to the ignorance and arrogance dominating much religion today." —Rabbi Rami Shapiro, author of Perennial Wisdom for the Spiritually Independent