Healing from Despair

Healing from Despair

Choosing Wholeness in a Broken World

By Rabbi Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz With Erica Shapiro Taylor Foreword by Rabbi MD Twerski Rabbi Abraham J.
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Publication Date: 1st September 2008

Through healing, brokenness can become a source of hope and blessing. This wise and helpful guide traces the path of suffering from despair to depression to desperation to the turning point where suffering can be transformed into blessing. Read More
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Through healing, brokenness can become a source of hope and blessing. This wise and helpful guide traces the path of suffering from despair to depression to desperation to the turning point where suffering can be transformed into blessing. Read More
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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.

Details
  • Price: $25.99
  • Pages: 196
  • Carton Quantity: 34
  • Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
  • Imprint: Jewish Lights
  • Publication Date: 1st September 2008
  • Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
  • ISBN: 9781683361077
  • Format: Hardcover
  • BISACs:
    RELIGION / Spirituality
    SELF-HELP / Spiritual
Reviews

"A deft blend of the personal and the theological, a book to lift souls and even to save lives."
—Rabbi Harold Kushner, author, When Bad Things Happen to Good People

"Wisdom of the heart and of the head…. A book for those who struggle with depression, and for those who live with those who struggle with depression. In short, for many, many of us."
—Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, author, A Code of Jewish Ethics and Jewish Literacy

"Rich with honesty and wisdom…. Gets to the heart of the human experience of prolonged despair and the possibilities for healing. Gentle, learned and insightful … provides kind and solid company for anyone seeking guidance, perspective and hope when the world comes crashing in."
—Rabbi Nancy Flam, cofounder, National Center for Jewish Healing; codirector, Programs, Institute for Jewish Spirituality

Author Bio

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.

Erica Shapiro Taylor is a volunteer with Tarbut V'Torah Day School and a court appointed special advocate.

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.

Table of Contents

This Book Is For You If ...
Foreword
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Tools for Perspective
One: A Shattered Vessel
Tools for Transformation
Two: Bitter Darkness
Tools for Gratitude
Three: Forgiving the Lost Soul
Tools for Forgiving
Four: A Healed World
Tools for Healing
Five: You Shall Be a Blessing
Tools for Becoming a Blessing

Practical Guidance Distilled: Checklists for Specific Areas of Concern
Notes

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.

  • Price: $25.99
  • Pages: 196
  • Carton Quantity: 34
  • Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
  • Imprint: Jewish Lights
  • Publication Date: 1st September 2008
  • Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
  • ISBN: 9781683361077
  • Format: Hardcover
  • BISACs:
    RELIGION / Spirituality
    SELF-HELP / Spiritual

"A deft blend of the personal and the theological, a book to lift souls and even to save lives."
—Rabbi Harold Kushner, author, When Bad Things Happen to Good People

"Wisdom of the heart and of the head…. A book for those who struggle with depression, and for those who live with those who struggle with depression. In short, for many, many of us."
—Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, author, A Code of Jewish Ethics and Jewish Literacy

"Rich with honesty and wisdom…. Gets to the heart of the human experience of prolonged despair and the possibilities for healing. Gentle, learned and insightful … provides kind and solid company for anyone seeking guidance, perspective and hope when the world comes crashing in."
—Rabbi Nancy Flam, cofounder, National Center for Jewish Healing; codirector, Programs, Institute for Jewish Spirituality

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.

Erica Shapiro Taylor is a volunteer with Tarbut V'Torah Day School and a court appointed special advocate.

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.

This Book Is For You If ...
Foreword
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Tools for Perspective
One: A Shattered Vessel
Tools for Transformation
Two: Bitter Darkness
Tools for Gratitude
Three: Forgiving the Lost Soul
Tools for Forgiving
Four: A Healed World
Tools for Healing
Five: You Shall Be a Blessing
Tools for Becoming a Blessing

Practical Guidance Distilled: Checklists for Specific Areas of Concern
Notes