{"id":5639,"date":"2020-02-25T13:21:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T21:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/?p=5639"},"modified":"2020-02-25T13:21:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T21:21:34","slug":"interfaith-conversations-sufism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/2020\/02\/25\/interfaith-conversations-sufism\/","title":{"rendered":"Interfaith Conversations : Sufism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Sufism is a school of practice that emphasizes the inward search for God and shuns materialism. Its modern-day adherents cherish tolerance and pluralism, qualities that in many religions unsettle extremists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Rabbi Tsvi Bar-David is the founder of Qirvah (closeness to God) multi-faith community, which is centered about getting into the Godzone through music in the fusional style of Sufi. His talk will include the Sufi Jewish connection from past to present<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Rashid Patch have been involved in sufi practice since the mid-1970s and have performed as a musician and as a semazen in the Mevlevi \u201cSema\u201d ritual in the U.S., in Canada and various locations including the house of Rumi in Konya. His talk will focus on Islamic perspectives into Sufism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Sunday, March, 1 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Pacifica Institute East Bay Branch<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">979 San Pablo Avenue 2nd Floor<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Albany, CA 94706<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Brunch @ 10:30 am<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Talks @ 11:30 am<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Music Performance @ 12:30<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">FREE Admission \u2013 <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/pacifica-institute-speaker-series-tickets-95775116953?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\" target=\"_blank\">RSVP<\/a><\/span><\/strong> Required<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sufism is a school of practice that emphasizes the inward search for God and shuns materialism. Its modern-day adherents cherish tolerance and pluralism, qualities that in many religions unsettle extremists. Rabbi Tsvi Bar-David is the founder of Qirvah (closeness to God) multi-faith community, which is centered about getting into the Godzone through music in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":5640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[541,538,278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eastbay-branch","category-conversations","category-slideshow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}