HARVESTING LOVE:
Finding Love in Unexpected (& Expected) Places
“Giving voice, communicating, is a sacred way to free love.”
Ani’s Harvesting Love blog is dedicated to releasing the energy of love into the world.
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Cusp
CUSP September twenty fourth in New England. Dusk. Still so green. So green. Only an occasional leaf—— more rarely an entire tree——given over to change. “Some things change and some stay the same,” I told my son when his father and I separated. “Love stays the same....
Irresistible Prayer: A Yom Kippur excerpt from The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov
Below is an excerpt from The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov, a book inspired by the life, love and teachings of a legendary and revolutionary rabbi, mystic, healer and teacher of Love. The High Holy Day of Yom Kippur starts tonight at sundown... The...
The Auspicious Weekend of Passover and Easter
Easter and Passover in the same weekend. Mighty themes to contemplate: leaving bondage, resurrecting. New life. Freedom—mine and that of others without which mine is not complete. Then this morning, on Easter Sunday itself, I found a dead mouse floating in the toilet of my downstairs bathroom.
A bird, a plane, or a rabbi?
Most of the time, Rabbi Mitnick’s absorption was contagious enough to lead me back into the prayers from my brief distraction. I would dwell on one word in a prayer, its root coming into focus, or feel in my belly the longing in a psalm, tears filling my eyes.
Who says we can’t give birth in our 60s?!
The audiobook edition of The Tremble of Love will transport you! Guaranteed! Back in time and deep into your own heart. Go there. Get this audiobook for FREE, if you’re not yet a member of Audible. A great opportunity. If already a member, just one credit.
No, I am not an indecent author!
I learned very recently that I was selected to be one of the featured Indie authors this coming Saturday, October 14 at the Forbes Library in celebration of National Indie Author Day.
A Whistle and a Pure Heart: Praying as We Are
There are some aspects of living and loving that are timeless. One of these is prayer. On the holiest day of the year, an illiterate shepherd boy prays with his whistle and pure heart. Only then can the Shofar sound. No matter your faith, join me now on the holy...
The Call to Write The Tremble of Love
One afternoon almost twenty years ago, alone in my apartment, I felt called by the Baal Shem Tov to write a book that would transmit his teachings, a book that I apprehended immediately was to be a vessel of Love.
EMPOWER RADIO: David Franklin Farkas Interviews Ani
In this interview you can listen to Ani and David discuss the inspiration for The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov, how it is relevant to today’s world and more…
Because we did not flee
The children want to run away in fear, but Yisroel urges them to remain and to continue singing the niggun, the wordless melody he has taught them. Leaving the younger children in the hands of the older boys, Yisroel goes deeper into the forest alone.
Writing as Prayer
The 13th century mystic poet Hafiz defined prayer as knowing the fire by feeling the flame and the water by bathing in the lake. He said you’ll never know a thing if you imagine how it feels, you need to feel it directly…
Interrupted By War, A Poem
When I was old enough, my mother showed me
a picture of her father she had shredded—
tucking the tiny pieces into her bra
to keep them hidden during The War.
When God Takes The Mother
My mother’s story is one of the most valuable gifts she has given me—in which she describes the most valuable gift her mother gave her, at a time when unfathomable despair—not invincible hope—might have been expected.
Writer’s Voice: Francesca Rheannon Interviews Ani
In this interview Ani Tuzman talks about her novel The Tremble of Love based on the life of the 18th century Jewish mystic, the Baal Shem Tov.
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