Event In Montclair Will Probe ‘Spiritual, Mystical Traditions’

MONTCLAIR, NJ — The following news release comes courtesy of Bnai Keshet. Learn more about posting announcements or events to your local Patch site.

Explore your true identity from a Kabbalistic and Vedantic perspective with Dr. Siddhartha Nadkarni, a neurologist at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, on Saturday Dec. 18, 10:00am-noon at Bnai Keshet, 99 So. Fullerton Ave. in Montclair, and via Zoom at https://www.bnaikeshet.org/eve...

Nadkarni, program director for a combined neurology and psychiatry residency, will speak about how identity is typically conceived of as a relational construct. Yet spiritual and mystical traditions, he maintains, offer a “radically different view of who we are, one that is not relational or relative, and one that often provides answers” for difficult social/political/psychological problems. “We will explore this perspective and its implications, if owned,” he said.

Nadkarni and his wife, Maya Grosz, are members of Bnai Keshet and live in Montclair. He also serves as program director of Langone’s Epilepsy Research Fellowship and as director of its Neuroscience Curriculum’s Psychiatry Residency Training Program.

His talk will be free of charge and open to all. Reconstructing Judaism in and around Montclair, Bnai Keshet invites the larger community to attend its events. But you must show proof of vaccination to enter the synagogue in person; masks are optional. For more information, visit www.bnaikeshet.org or call 973-746-4889.

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