| Healing from Despair: Choosing Wholeness in a Broken World Contributor(s): Spitz, Elie Kaplan (Author), Taylor, Erica Shapiro (With), Twerski, Abraham J. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1683361075 ISBN-13: 9781683361077 Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing OUR PRICE: $23.39 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Spirituality - Religion | Judaism - Rituals & Practice - Religion | Devotional |
| Dewey: 296.7 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.6" (0.80 lbs) 196 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
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| Publisher Description: The suffering that brings you to despair and even desperation can--with healing--become a source of hope, purpose and blessing. Are you:Feeling anxious? Feeling depressed because of the loss of health, a relationship or a job? Grieving the loss of a loved one? Grieving loss by a suicide? Feeling hopeless? Concerned about a friend who has suicidal thoughts? This wise and helpful guide explores the nature of personal suffering and brokenness and the potential for personal crisis as a source of strength and renewal instead of despair and death. Examining the personal journeys of biblical and historical figures such as Moses, Maimonides, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Buber--as well as the author's own personal experience with despair--it looks at brokenness as an inescapable element of the human condition. It traces the path of suffering from despair to depression to desperation to the turning point--healing--when first-hand knowledge of suffering can be transformed into blessing. |
Contributor Bio(s): Spitz, Elie Kaplan: - Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz is the author of Healing from Despair: Choosing Wholeness in a Broken World and Does the Soul Survive? A Jewish Journey to Belief in Afterlife, Past Lives & Living with Purpose (both Jewish Lights). A spiritual leader and scholar specializing in topics of spirituality and Judaism, he teaches, writes and speaks to a wide range of audiences. He has served as the rabbi of Congregation B'nai Israel in Tustin, California, for more than a decade and is a member of the Rabbinical Assembly Committee of Law and Standards. Taylor, Erica Shapiro: -Erica Shapiro Taylor is a volunteer with Tarbut V'Torah Day School and a court appointed special advocate. Twerski, Abraham J.: -Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, MD, a psychiatrist, rabbi and frequent lecturer on a broad range of topics including spirituality and self-esteem, is author of over fifty books, including Happiness and the Human Spirit: The Spirituality of Becoming the Best You Can Be; A Formula for Proper Living: Practical Lessons from Life and Torah (both Jewish Lights); Waking Up Just in Time; The Spiritual Self and Getting Up When You're Down. He is the founder and medical director emeritus of Gateway Rehabilitation Center. For more information, visit www.abrahamtwerski.com. |