BIO

Rav Avraham Sutton is an Orthodox spiritual mentor, teacher, and author who has been learning and teaching prophetic Torah and Kabbalah for over forty years. He has translated, edited, and/or authored over thirty major works in English on the deeper significance of Torah for our age—the age of spiritual awakening.

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Born in the US, Rav Avraham has lived in Israel since 1977 and has imbibed Torah from some of the great teachers in the holy city of Jerusalem. Steeped in the tradition of the great masters of Kabbalah, he is an insider of Torah. He focuses on the deeper soul-issues of our age, the meaning of living at this crucial time in history, including how to develop a deeper awareness of—and intimacy with—God in our everyday lives. He teaches the importance of inner work, of knowing who we truly are, and why we (our souls) have been born at this momentous time in history.

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In the words of one of his closest friends, “Rabbi Sutton is consumed with mining Judaism’s foundation for its gems and delivering them articulately and cohesively. So desperately needed today by so many, more than merely inspiring, his message stirs the very substance of the Jewish soul to restoration. Rabbi Sutton teaches what has been fundamental and universal from the beginning, but which has not been accessible as a unified whole to those who are not similarly familiar with the sources. He has prepared his publications with extraordinary dedication to clarity through rich and comprehensively descriptive prose. His service to Jews around the world is unique” (Dr. Pesach Goodley, of blessed memory).

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Rav Avraham is beholden to all his teachers, but particularly to Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, of blessed memory, for his ability to elucidate Torah/Kabbalah for an audience unfamiliar with these sacred teachings. Indeed, he compiled, edited, and annotated Innerspace—Introduction to Kabbalah, Meditation and Prophecy from transcripts of classes given by Rabbi Kaplan. Since its publication in 1990, Innerspace continues to be considered one of the finest introductions to authentic Jewish mysticism in the English language.

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Rav Avraham’s other published works include The Book of Divine Oneness—Revealing God’s Absolute Unity; Spiritual Technology—On the Transition from Profane Technology to Sacred Technology in Preparation for the Advent of the Great Shabbat; Tefillah LeEl Chayay—The Breslov Siddur; Days of Awe—How to Make your Experience of the High Holidays Deeper, More Meaningful and Infinitely Rewarding; Purim Light—The Reality of God in Our Lives; Maftechot Eliyahu—Original translation and in-depth commentary on Petichat Eliyahu, from the Second Introduction to the Tikuney Zohar.

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            His future publications include: A World of Infinite Blessings—The Transformative Power of a Blessing; Ladder of Ascent—On the Relationship between Prayerful Meditation and Meditative Prayer; Temple of Prayer—The Prophetic Underpinnings of Our Prayer System; Siddur Od Yoseph Chai—Sefardic Siddur based on the halakhic rulings of Rabbi Yoseph Chayim of Baghdad; The Wisdom Siddur—A New/Old Look at the Siddur as an Experiential Manual for Achieving God-Consciousness; The Spiritual Significance of the Ketoret—The Inner Meaning of the Incense; The Unfinished Tapestry—Tracing the Prophetic Career of Moshe Rabbenu; Vessels of Light—On the Unification of Torah and Science; The Holiness of Shabbat—The Illumination of the Light of Ein Sof on Shabbat in the Teachings of the Zohar, the Ari, the Baal Shem Tov,  and more.