Ya'qub Ibn Yusuf:
CLASS OF 1969
Wilby High SchoolClass of 1969
Waterbury, CT
East Midwood Day SchoolClass of 1965
Brooklyn, NY
Ya'qub's Story
Ya'qub is from Brooklyn, New York. Ya'qub's schools include Wilby High School. Ya'qub later attended University of Manitoba (Near Eastern Studies; World Religion) . Ya'qub works(ed) at Olam Qatan Bookstore.
Music Ya'qub likes includes Idit Eshel.
One of Ya'qub's favorite quotes is:""Every human being is a microcosm (olam qatan)
and the world as a whole is a macro-human being (adam gadol)."
-Rabbi Yitzhaq of Acre (14th Century Kabbalist)".
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about Ya'qub:"Born Joshua Drexler Heckelman, I am the proprietor of Olam Qatan, the spiritual bookstore in Jerusalem. A long-time seeker on the Sufi Path, I edited the book by Murat Yagan, "The Essence of Sufism in the Light of Kebzeh, the Tradition of the Caucasus Mountains." My interest in Sufism grew out of my studies with Reb Zalman Schachter and my discovery of the teachings of Rebbe Nahman of Bratzlav.Turns out that Hasidism is Jewish Sufism.".
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