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What is Neo-Hasidism?

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CJ Liu interviews Netanel Miles-Yepez, co-author of “A Heart Afire: Stories and Teachings of the Early Hasidic Masters”. Netanel shares the third turning of Hasidism and the Neo Hasidism movement. What inspired Netanel to change his religion and become Hasidic? How did Hasidism emerge from the Kabbalah? How has Netanel’s experience as a comparative religion professor help shape his spiritual path? How is Hasidism different or similar to it’s Judism?

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Netanel Miles-Yépez, Abode Spiritual Director, is a teacher of religion and Pir of the Inayati-Maimuni lineage of Sufism, co-founded with his teacher, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, fusing the Sufi and Hasidic principles of spirituality and practice espoused by Rabbi Avraham Maimuni in 13th-century Egypt with the teachings of the Ba’al Shem Tov and Hazrat Inayat Khan. Netanel Miles-Yépez is also known for his vibrant paintings, influenced by traditional religious imagery and his Mexican-American heritage. His work in general represents a lifelong fascination with religious iconography, myth and symbol, image and archetype, cultural impressions and his own ancestry.

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