Editing Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (section)

==Career and work==

=== Chabad rabbi ===
In 1948, along with Rabbi [[Shlomo Carlebach]], Schachter was sent out to speak on college campuses by the now Lubavitcher Rebbe [[Menachem Mendel Schneerson]] as one of the first [[schluchim]].<ref name="Magid2019">{{cite web |last1=Magid |first1=Shaul |title=Another Side of the Lubavitcher Rebbe |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/another-side-of-the-lubavitcher-rebbe |website=Tablet Magazine |date=July 3, 2019 |quote=Schneerson['s] true acolyte, the one who most accurately and deeply absorbed and disseminated his message, was someone who left Chabad behind: Zalman Schachter-Shalomi... Upon his arrival in America, Schachter-Shalomi became a disciple of R. Yosef Yitzhak Schneersohn (1880-1950) the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, and subsequently of his son-in-law R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson... Schachter-Shalomi served as one of the first Chabad shelukhim in 1948, sent by the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe to "infiltrate" a Hanukkah party at the newly opened Brandeis University with a young student from the Lakewood yeshiva named Shlomo Carlebach. He subsequently left to found his own "mystical revision" and "social reform" movement founded in large part on the principles of his youth in Chabad, revised to answer what he understood to be the changing paradigm of a post-Holocaust world. Once asked about his ties to Chabad, Schachter-Shalomi responded, “I graduated from Chabad.”...}}</ref> In 1958, Schachter privately published what may have been the first English book on [[Jewish meditation]]. It was later reprinted in ''[[Michael Strassfeld#Jewish Catalog|The Jewish Catalog]]'', and was read by a generation of Jews as well as some [[Christian mysticism|Christian contemplatives]].<ref name=Renewalist/> Schachter left the Lubavitcher movement after experimenting with "the sacramental value of [[Lysergic acid diethylamide|lysergic acid]]" from 1962.<ref>Mittleman, Alan; Sarna, Jonathan; Licht, Robert: "Jewish Polity and American Civil Society. p. 365. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2002 {{ISBN|0-7425-2122-2}}</ref><ref name="bostonglobe.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2014/07/16/rabbi-zalman-schachter-shalomi-jewish-pioneer-dies/CrmT9HBtIHCKjtT2bKV7uJ/story.html|title=Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Jewish pioneer, dies at 89|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=July 16, 2014}}</ref> With the subsequent rise of the [[hippie]] movement in the 1960s, and exposure to Christian mysticism, he moved away from the Chabad lifestyle.<ref name="bostonglobe.com"/>

=== Hillel director and ecumenical work ===

From 1956 to 1975, Reb Zalman was based in [[Winnipeg|Winnipeg, Manitoba]], though he travelled extensively. In Winnipeg, he worked as the [[Hillel International|Hillel]] director and head of [https://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/judaic_studies/index.html Judaic Studies] at the [[University of Manitoba]].<ref name="CJT">{{cite news |url=https://www.cjnews.com/news/rabbi-icon-new-age-judaism |title=Rabbi was Icon of New Age Judaism |last=Shupac |first=Jodie |date=July 7, 2014 |access-date=January 16, 2020 |newspaper=The Canadian Jewish Times}}</ref> These positions allowed him to share his ideas and experiential techniques of spirituality with many Jewish and non-Jewish students, leaving lasting memories.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.colorado.edu/post-holocaustamericanjudaismcollections/winnipeg-jewish-renewal-oral-history-collection|title=Winnipeg Jewish Renewal Oral History Collection|date=February 20, 2017|website=Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections|language=en|access-date=November 20, 2019}}</ref> While pursuing a course of study at [[Boston University]] (including a class taught by [[Howard Thurman]]), he experienced an intellectual and spiritual shift. In 1968, on sabbatical from the religion department of the University of Manitoba, he joined a group of other Jews in founding a [[havurah]] (small cooperative congregation) in [[Somerville, Massachusetts|Somerville]], Massachusetts, called ''[[Havurat Shalom]]''.<ref name="CJT" /> In 1974, Schachter hosted a month-long [[Kabbalah]] workshop in [[Berkeley, California]]; his experimental style and the inclusion of mystical and cross-cultural ideas are credited as the inspiration for the formation of the [[havurah]] there that eventually became the [[Aquarian Minyan]] congregation.<ref>{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.aquarianminyan.org/history|website=The Aquarian Minyan|access-date=December 15, 2015}}</ref> He eventually left the Lubavitch movement altogether and founded his own organization known as ''B'nai Or'', meaning "Sons of Light," a title he took from the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]] writings. During this period he was known to his followers as the "B'nai Or Rebbe", and the rainbow prayer shawl he designed for his group was known as the "B'nai Or [[tallit]]". Both the havurah experiment and B'nai Or came to be seen as the early stirrings of the [[Jewish Renewal]] movement. The congregation later changed its name to the more gender-neutral "P'nai Or" (meaning "Faces of Light"), and it continues under this name.

In the 1980s, Schachter added "Shalomi" (based on the Hebrew word ''shalom'', or peace) to his name as a statement of his desire for peace in Israel and around the world.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Biography of Zalman Schachter-Shalomi|url=http://www.colorado.edu/schachter-shalomicollection/home/biography-zalman-schachter-shalomi|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222112640/http://www.colorado.edu/schachter-shalomicollection/home/biography-zalman-schachter-shalomi|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 22, 2015|website=Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi Collection|publisher=University of Colorado Boulder|access-date=December 15, 2015}}</ref>

=== Later years and death ===
[[Image:Zalman Schachter-Shalomi & Ram Dass.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and [[Ram Dass]] in February 2008]]

Schachter-Shalomi was among the group of rabbis, from a wide range of Jewish denominations, who traveled together to [[India]] to meet with the [[Dalai Lama]] and discuss [[Jewish diaspora|diaspora]] survival for Jews and Tibetan Buddhists with him.<ref name="nytimes" /> Tibetans, exiled from their homeland for more than three generations, face some of the same assimilation challenges experienced by Jewish diaspora. The Dalai Lama was interested in knowing how the Jews had survived with their culture intact. That journey was chronicled in [[Rodger Kamenetz]]' 1994 book ''[[The Jew in the Lotus]]''.

In his later years, Schachter-Shalomi held the World Wisdom Chair at The [[Naropa Institute]];<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.naropa.edu/about-naropa/events/past-events/reb-zalman-memorial.php |title=Celebration of Reb Zalman's Life and Legacy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150327193323/https://www.naropa.edu/about-naropa/events/past-events/reb-zalman-memorial.php |archive-date=March 27, 2015 |access-date=January 16, 2020}}</ref> he was Professor Emeritus at both Naropa and [[Temple University]].<ref name="nytimes">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/09/us/zalman-schachter-shalomi-jewish-pioneer-dies-at-89.html|title=Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Jewish Pioneer, Dies at 89|first=Paul|last=Vitello|date=July 8, 2014|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> He also served on the faculty of the [[Reconstructionist Rabbinical College]], Omega, the [[NICABM]], and other institutions. He was co-founder, with Rabbi [[Arthur Waskow]], of ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal, bringing together P'nai Or and The Shalom Center. He was also the founder of the ALEPH Ordination Programs. The seminary he founded has ordained over 80 rabbis and [[Hazzan|cantor]]s.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi died of complications from pneumonia in 2014 at the age of 89.<ref name="nytimes" /><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/178185/rabbi-zalman-schachter-shalomi-dies-at-89 |title=Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Dies at 89 |first=Stephanie |last=Butnick |magazine=Tablet Magazine |date=July 3, 2014 |access-date=July 3, 2014 }}</ref> Schachter-Shalomi was married four times and was the father of 11 children.<ref name="nytimes" />