Meet Rabbi Shlomo Nachman ben Ya'akov

Greetings!
Welcome to AllFaith.com, LearnEmunah.com, and BeitEmunah.org!
AllFaith.com is unique, and so am I!
AllFaith.com was founded in 1997 as an Omnist website at the now defunct GeoCities.com (in Athens-Delphi), where I earned my MA in World Religious Studies from JFKU. What is Omnism? It is simply the belief that all true religions were inspired by the one we generally refer to as God. I believe the One God is a "Personal Being," not an impersonal force. And yet everything, the Personal and Impersonal, comes from One God.

My lifelong quest for Truth has led me through many religious traditions, several of which granted me new names. Thus, I, John of AllFaith, am known as Rabbi Shlomo Nachman ben Ya’akov, Jagannatha Om Prakash, Muhammed Yahya Saleem, Gangadhar, Wodan ap Colwyn, Kewal Singh, and others. Names are fleeting things we call ourselves within this duality. Who can know the true name of our souls?

Since 1969, I have been on a quest to know One God as fully as possible. This quest has brought me to some very interesting places and situations. I will not bore you with too much detail here, but a little seems to be in order.

As stated, I created AllFaith.com in 1997. I later created LearnEmunah.com (i.e. Learn Faith) to share my Jewish studies due to Rabbinic pressure (they did not like the name AllFaith or its non-Jewish content). Still, I've always been a Omnist and this led to many negative experiences with the rabbis. Once One God freed me from these rabbis, I created BeitEmunah.org (House of Faith) as an independent Breslov-focused Jewish Synagogue and Shul website (i.e., worship and study site). As of January 1, 2025 I decided I could no longer, in good conscious, be part of the Rabbinic establishment. I laid my two Jewish ordinations aside and embraced my beliefs as an Omnist.

During the Covid Plandemic, AllFaith.com was “canceled” by Network Solutions for Truth-telling about what was going on. They tried to steal the domain name (it was offline because of their machinations for over a year), but with God’s help, I successfully maintained ownership and got it back online with a better web host that honors free speach. Unfortunately, due to their mismanagement of my domain a lot of the original material was lost during these assaults on my free speech, but I continue to rebuild, restore, and reimagine the domain. AllFaith.com is once again my flagship web domain and the portal to all three domains.

In 2024 Facebook locked my out of the page I had managed since the 1990s and in January 2024 YouTube banned me for life. The Globalists minions do not like people speaking the truth. I have a new Facebook page but I very seldom post there lest they concel me again. While I have not on social media like I used to be, my main social media site now is MeWe.

After a lifetime of study and pratctice I have become convinced that a knowledge of world religions is a good thing to have! Sadly, some of my spiritual kin prefer ignorance and judgmentalism. I can no longer look to such people as my spiritual guides. As the old saying goes, "If that which you seek you find not within, you will never find it without."

As the Bard said, “There is more in Heaven and Earth that are dreamed of in our philosophies.”

The quest for God is as varied as the indidivual seeker. There is no "one way to God." One God looks at the heart, at our intentions and accepts or temporaraly rejects based on this alone. The various religions and philosophies may help direct us towards the Truth of One God (samadhi, nivana, Self-relization, God-realization etc.), but we must walk the path laid before us and seek ever greater Light.

My lifelong quest for the Beloved One began in 1969 and has taken me through most religious disciplines and innumerable sects, light and dark. I have earned ordinations and other achievements in many of them. I have traveled extensively to connect with various spiritual teachers and communities. This quest has been the focal point of this life.

I hold an MA degree in World Religious Studies, an Interfaith Fellowship degree. In Judaism I hold two ordinations: yoreh yoreh (permission to rule on ritual matters), yadin yadin (permission to serve as a rabbinic judge), and three Christian ordinations (Baptist, Cavalry Chapel, and Independent Bible). I’ve worked with several Christian denominations and sects (including various mainline, Charismatic and Pentecostal, Jehovah’s Witnesses, various Messianic, Russian Orthodox, and more), served as a missionary, an evangelist, and in other roles. I have received recognition through the sacred thread and Gayatri as a Gaudiya Vaisnava Brahman of the Sanatana Dharma (through ISKCON, Gaudiya Math, and Yoga Society), and practiced diverse forms of yoga (including with Yoga Society, Siddha Yoga Foundation, Satchi Sai Baba, Vedanta Society, Shree Maa and Swamiji of Devi Mandir and others). I translated the Vaisnava classic Srimad Bhagavad Gita for my MA thesis as well as other Sanskrit texts into English. I achieved the level of priesthood among the Wodan Wodel Pagan sect and have studied and practiced with several other earth spiritualities. I’ve practiced among the Sikhs and 3HO sect, among the Buddhists through Zen, Tibetan, and Chögyam Trungpa, with a couple of Taoist groups, and many more.

In the Written Torah, I found incredible, rational, spiritually inspiring truths and principles. Through the teachings of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, I discovered what I consider among the most sublime Paths (Derech HaShem). As is proper, I honor all who seek the Creator and manifest peace regardless of their tradition or practice. As is said, Truth is One, the sages call it by diverse names. This does not mean there are no absolutes, only that in our current state we cannot perceive these and this is obviously how One God set things up! We are all on a quest and one day, we pray, we will all come into true knowledge. I am a simple man seeking to follow the One God with prayerful wisdom gathered over the past 55-plus years. As the Bard said, “There is more in Heaven and Earth that are dreamed of in our philosophies.”
Despite what some might prefer, spirituality requires personal prayer, study, and intelligence rather than mindless regurgitation of mid-eval philosopher’s opinions. Is that too harsh? Oh well, the Path to Truth can be a bumpy ride! We can learn from the ancients, but we live in the here and now and this is where our spirituality needs to blosom.

My lifelong quest for the Beloved One began in 1969 and has taken me through most religious disciplines and innumerable sects, light, and dark. I have earned ordinations and other achievements in many of them. I have traveled extensively to connect with various spiritual teachers and communities. This quest has been the focal point of this life. I invite you walk the Way of Omnism with me.

May we ALL know ever greater Peace, Love, and Light!