Albion-Andalus

06/13/2024

Pleased to announce Kyva Holman's spiritual memoir, Black, Buddhist, B-Boy, & Beyond, a new contribution to Hip-Hop literature from a founding member of Boston's pioneering live band The Exile Society.

12/04/2023

We are pleased to announce that we recently published a wonderful new book of poetry: Across the Difficult: With Rabia of Basra and Others by Tamam Kahn. Rooted in her research on women from early Islam, Tamam explores the difficulties faced by—and the wisdom emerging through—early Muslim and Sufi women, and women of today who face incredibly trying circumstances. Her is a video of Tamam reading "I'm Telling You."

10/10/2023

Friends, check out a beautiful new book by the extraordinary poet, Tamam Kahn, that features my favorite mystic, Rabia of Basra, Across the Difficult: With Rabia of Basra and Others.

01/13/2023

Albion-Andalus author, Zvi Ish-Shalom's work on the Primorial Torah profiled in the Times of Israel.

In his 20s, Zvi Ish-Shalom underwent a spiritual transformation rooted in Kabbalah; his new book offers an 'experiential shift in consciousness' - for Jews and non-Jews alike

07/08/2022

Albion-Andalus is pleased to announce the publication of the new edition of Embracing Wisdom by Malka Drucker and Nadya Gross! Available from Bookshop.org:

https://bookshop.org/books/embracing-wisdom-soaring-in-the-second-half-of-life-9781953220158/9781953220158

04/03/2022

This Passover, revisit the 'telling' from a new perspective, with Phyllis Berman and Arthur Waskow's wonderful The Looooong Narrow Pharaoh & The Midwives Who Gave Birth to Freedom!

The Loooong Narrow Pharaoh is Rabbi Phyllis Berman and Rabbi Arthur Waskow's delightful retelling and reinterpretation of the Exodus story, in which two brave and wise midwives resist the murderous and despotic commands of Pharaoh, and help lead the ancient exodus of the Hebrew people from slavery i...

03/04/2022

Albion-Andalus is pleased to announce the release of Alejandra Warden's Remembrance: A Vision of the Sacred Feminine and the Renewal of the Earth!

04/02/2021

Rabbi Jack Riemer's review of Jewish End-of-Life Care in a Virtual Age ...."My parents would have said of a book like this, “Mir zol es nisht darfen,” we should not need to have it – but we live at a time when we do need it, and so we should be grateful that these writers who have provided us with guidance on how to help a person recite the vidui in these circumstances; new prayers that can be said from outside a room for those who are not permitted to go inside; how to help a person give thanks when he emerges from the hospital; and many other resources that we never imagined we would need.

The pandemic has changed every aspect of our lives, even the way we become ill and the way we die. We used to lie in the hospital surrounded by our family and friends. Now no one is allowed to be with us for fear of contagion. We used to be buried in a ceremony in which our friends participated in t...

10/26/2020

We may be working on a coloring book or two... Sufi saints in abundance...

10/22/2020

Around 1960, Meshullam Zalman Schachter, a Habad Hasid and Hillel Director at the University of Manitoba, composed and printed what was perhaps the first Jewish meditation manual in English called The First Step, which went on to influence a generation of Jewish spiritual seekers. (https://amzn.to/3dNqWhS)

This being the 60th anniversary of the first printing, Albion-Andalus Books has issued an anniversary edition of the first edition, maintaining the covers, pagination, and typewriter style of the original book. Even today, it is a brilliant introduction to Jewish contemplative life! (https://amzn.to/3dNqWhS)

10/21/2020

With all this extra time at home, we're prioritizing eBooks here at Albion-Andalus - In the Teahouse of Experience by our very own Netanel Miles-Yépez is now available digitally!

In the Teahouse of Experience: Nine Talks on the Path of Sufism

03/27/2020

01/27/2020

Praise for The Books of Splendor

01/03/2020

12/31/2019

Albion Andalus is proud to have published "The Books of Splendor", written by Reuven Alpert.

https://amzn.to/39eEoJf

"If you want to learn the mysteries of Kabbalah in a delightful manner and, at the same time, be enthralled by an amazing tale, then this book is for you. Dive in! ... The author—composing this work pseudonymously, as did the authors of the Zohar—is an esteemed scholar of Jewish spirituality and a gifted writer." — Daniel Matt, author of The Essential Kabbalah, and translator of the multi-volume annotated, The Zohar: Pritzker Edition

12/27/2019

"The Books of Splendor" (https://amzn.to/39eEoJf)

and "God Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown"(https://amzn.to/34Y5W29)

A new book for the New Year and a second edition for auld lang syne.

08/08/2019

HeartFire Festival: Music and Spirituality in NY

Help HeartFire Festival provide 1/2 priced and free tickets to its low-income participants! Spirituality should be for everyone!

A new festival-summit for exploring the intersection between music and spirituality | Check out 'HeartFire Festival: Music and Spirituality in NY' on Indiegogo.

07/19/2019

Two new books from Albion-Andalus!

"The Infinity Inside" by Rabbi Laura Duhan-Kaplan, is a book of essays exploring Jewish spiritual practice through a multi-faith lens, and a rabbis connection to her Judaism in relation to the beliefs of others.

"Echoes from the Ashes" by Simcha Paull Raphael, is a new volume in the Jewish Life, Death, and Transition Series, featuring Raphael's poetry inspired by a Holocaust pilgrimage.

07/08/2019

HeartFire Festival

Liquid Bloom-DJ Set set with Amani Friend ()

For nearly two decades, Amani Friend has also been at the helm of the global-electronic project Liquid Bloom.

Feeling equally at home on the international festival circuit, in the studio, and in the more subtle sonic spaces reserved for intentional ceremonies guided by ancient allies, the wide-ranging collective under the umbrella of the Liquid Bloom project spans distance, time, and dimensions of mind.

As one half of Desert Dwellers, Amani brings his dance floor guidance and experience to harness a deeper, transportive journey, giving as much weight to calm and the serene as to the groove.

As founder of Liquid Bloom, he has guided the project through its many lives, and its many rebirths at the hands of remixers AtYyA, Numatik, and Mose to name a few. The Liquid Bloom experience unfolds in a multitude of incarnations.

Amani is able to craft deep, entrancing journeys during his solo sets.

SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/liquidbloom

Learn More: liquidbloom.com

07/05/2019

Matisyahu

Matisyahu

Excited to be playing the first ever HeartFire Festival in upstate NY with Organization and Albion-Andalus at Abode of the Message this September, 2019! Tickets are likely to sell out for this one, so get ‘em early at http://heartfirefest.com/

07/04/2019

Worldchangers Organization

Desert Dwellers and Rav Kohenet Taya Shere added to the line-up!

ANNOUNCING DESERT DWELLERS ON THE LINEUP FOR HEARTFIRE FESTIVAL NY, ALONGSIDE MATISYAHU...

05/14/2019

Three new books from Albion-Andalus!

"The Torah Sutras" by Eric Maroney, creatively imagining Taoist, Confucian, and Buddhist-influenced reconstructions of Jewish ideas in the Kaifeng Jewish community in China.

"The Santero Ideal: The Art of Colorado Santera, Teresa May Duran" by Netanel Miles-Yépez, a slim book describing the ideals and methods of the unique Spanish colonial religious art in the southwest.

"A New World: An American Sephardic Memoir" by Rabbi Marc D. Angel, describing his childhood in Seattle's community of Sephardic Jewish immigrants.

05/13/2019

Matisyahu at the HeartFire Festival in New Lebanon, NY (September 13-15). See the link below. Get your tickets soon! They're going fast.

Join us this September for an inter-spiritual gathering of music & learning at HeartFire Festival feat. Matisyahu & more! Duo set on Sept 14th and a special dialogue on the 15th. Limited tickets available, grab yours here: https://fanlink.to/heartfirefest

📷 Pete Santos

05/01/2019

When Oceans Merge: The Contemporary Sufi and Hasidic Teachings of Pir Vilayat Khan and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

The new book on Reb Zalman and Pir Vilayat Khan!

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 Mi...

04/04/2019

"What will we do with our legacies, whether we are Jews or members of any other tribe that has suffered the trauma of genocide or persecution simply for being who we are?" — Rabbi Tirzah Firestone reading at the book launch of Wounds into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma (Adam Kadmon Books, an imprint of Albion-Andalus Books and Monkfish Publishing)