Norman gives the fifth talk of the Pesach Intensive 2013 at Makor Or.

Norman gives the fourth talk on the Pesach Intensive 2013 at Makor Or.

Norman gives the second talk of the 2013 Pesach Intensive at Makor Or.

Norman gives the first talk of the 2013 Pesach Intensive at Makor Or.

Norman speaks on Sustaining a Jewish Meditation Practice to the Makor Or Jewish practice group.

Norman gives this talk On Jewish Teachings on Forgiveness to the Makor Or All Day September 2012 retreat.

Norman gives the first talk of the Makor Or 2012 High Holidays Intensive.

Norman gives a talk "On Counting The Omer" on Jewish Meditation in Vancouver. due to technical difficulties, only the first 22 minutes of the talk are recorded.

Norman gives the fourth talk to the Makor Or Passover Intensive 2012 on Get Going.

A video interview with Norman Fischer, conducted by Richard Chess and Kitty Kendall of University of North Carolina, Asheville.

Norman talks about Purim, Spinoza, and the theme of masking and unmasking.

A meditation, in poetry and prose, on light, language, and silence in Kabbalistic and Zen literature, focusing on the Zohar and Kabbalistic texts and on Buddhist views of language and Dogen's linguistic praxis.

"Red Sea liberation is liberation into trust, into the unknown dark sea of what cannot be said or known or ever finally understood, yet is the most important part of life. It is a liberation that begins with the recognition that one person can’t do anything alone, one must always be together with others, part of a people; and that that people can’t do anything alone either, it needs to rely God."

One of the most basic facts about The Days of Awe is that they are awesome; it’s the time when we quake in our boots before the divine, remember with humility how small we are, how pitiful are all our works, and how little it takes to wipe us away.

The genius of the Torah is that it operates constantly on several levels at once. It is possible, even necessary, to read the Exodus story as the record of a personal, spiritual event, a breakthrough for the soul that happened once long ago, and happens again and again, in the life of each individual.

I said to him, "Does it make sense that God would make God'sself available only at weddings, bar mitzvahs, sunsets and holidays? Does it make sense that God would be there on Yom Kippur, Pesach, and the rest of the year be snoozing or absent? No, God means nothing if God is not built into the shape of each moment. True, we might miss God in any given moment. But in the next moment there would be a fresh chance. We don't have to wait.