Fragments of a Future Scroll

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924–2014), better known as Reb Zalman, was born in Poland, raised in Vienna, and ordained as a rabbi in New York. During his colorful, countercultural life, he was considered one of the foremost authorities on Kabbalah and Hasidism, and was one of the key initiators of the American Neo-Hasidic renaissance and the Jewish Renewal movement. Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Religion and Jewish Mysticism at Temple University, and World Wisdom Chair holder emeritus at Naropa University, Reb Zalman was a unique figure in American Judaism and world spirituality, a beloved teacher and guide to many, and the author of numerous books, including Jewish with Feeling, Wrapped in a Holy Flame, From Age-Ing to Sage-Ing, and Paradigm Shift. Reb Zalman’s legacy and influence remain strong, and his vision of a progressive Jewish spiritual future has inspired generations of Jews and seekers worldwide.Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, PhD, is an author, Jungian psychologist, and rabbi emerita of Congregation Nevei Kodesh in Boulder, Colorado. She was ordained by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi in 1992, an experience she describes in her spiritual memoir, With Roots in Heaven (Dutton, 1998). Firestone lectures internationally on Jewish mysticism, the reintegration of the feminine wisdom tradition in Judaism, and the essential work of healing intergenerational trauma. Her other publications include: The Woman's Kabbalah (Sounds True, 2000), The Receiving (Harper, 2004), and the award-winning Wounds into Wisdom (Monkfish, 2019). See more at www.tirzahfirestone.com.Rabbi Shaul Magid, PhD, teaches Modern Judaism at Harvard Divinity School, is a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at Harvard University, and serves as rabbi of the Fire Island Synagogue. He works on Jewish thought and culture from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the Jewish mystical and philosophical tradition. His three latest books are Piety and Rebellion (Academic Studies Press, 2019); Meir Kahane (Princeton University Press, 2021); and The Necessity of Exile (Ayin Press, 2023). He is an elected member of the American Academy for Jewish Research and the American Society for the Study of Religion, and lives in Thetford, Vermont.Rav Jericho Vincent is the founding rabbi of Temple of the Stranger. They are a Wexner Fellow, a member of the ROI: Schusterman Community, a recent fellow at Atra: The Center for Rabbinic Innovation, and they currently serve as an advisor to Beit Kohenet and the Shalom Center. They hold a master’s degree in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and are ordained by the Aleph Ordination Program in the lineage of Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. Rav Jericho has been named to the Jewish Week’s 36 Under 36 and the Forward 50 for their work. They live in Brooklyn on Lenape land with their partner and children. You can find them at a Temple of the Stranger ceremony, on Substack, or at www.jerichovincent.com.Arthur Kurzweil is a writer, teacher, and magician. He is the author of several books, including On the Road with Rabbi Steinsaltz, Kabbalah for Dummies, The Talmud for Dummies, The Torah for Dummies, Pebbles of Wisdom from Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, From Generation to Generation, and The Persistence of Memory. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Humanitarian Award from the Melton Center for Jewish Studies at the Ohio State University for his unique contributions to Jewish education, as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies. He is also a member of the Society of American Magicians and the International Brotherhood of Magicians (Order of Merlin). He and his wife, Bobby, share seven children and thirteen grandchildren.Eden Pearlstein is an author, artist, and cofounder of Ayin Press. He is the author of Nothing Is for Everyone: Poems, and coauthor/editor of the chapbooks In/Flux: On Influence, Inspiration, Transmission, and Transformation; Taste and See: A Psychedelic Pesach Companion; and Indwelling: An Earth-Based Sukkot Companion. Eden holds two master's degrees from JTS in Experiential Education and Jewish Philosophy. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two children.

“Zalman Schachter continues lineage of Reb Nahman transmitting essence teaching of available Hebraic High-Conscious ritual-like davening adapted thru Time’s trans-shiftings to Turtle Island (North America) for wandering tribes seeking End-of-Illusion Illumination thru International Tantra.”—Allen Ginsberg, author of Howl and Other Poems“The book you are holding in your hands is a sacred artifact, a bold gambit of reinvention, a dislocation of secret treasures from a charred reality, an illicit smuggling into a new world.”—Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, author of With Roots in Heaven and Wounds into Wisdom“There are books that are worth re-reading periodically—not to remember what was forgotten, but to remind ourselves why it was worth remembering them in the first place. Fragments of a Future Scroll is one of those books.”—Shaul Magid, author of The Necessity of Exile“Reb Zalman’s Torah is a blueprint for calling on the collective moral authority of all Earth’s great religious traditions to demand justice and birth a more enlightened consciousness for the world.”—Rav Jericho Vincent, founding rabbi of Temple of the Stranger