The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook: A Guide to Understanding, Exploring & Living a Spiritual Life - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580230938 ISBN 13: 9781580230933

Publisher: Jewish Lights, 2001

Synopsis

What is "Jewish Spirituality"? How do I make it part of my life? Today's foremost spiritual leaders share their ideas and experience.

Whether you are just curious, intently searching for greater personal meaning, or actively seeking ideas, information, practices and inspiration to enrich your spiritual life, The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook is the ideal companion for your journey as it explores:

• Awakening the Possibilities: What Is Jewish Spirituality?
• The Worlds of Your Life: Where Is Spirituality Found?
• The Times and Seasons of Your Life: When Does Spirituality Enter?
• Swords and Plowshares: How to Forge the Tools that Will Make It Happen
• So What Do You Do With It? Why Spirituality Should Be Part of Your Life

Fifty of our foremost spiritual leaders invite you to explore every aspect of Jewish spirituality--God, community, prayer, liturgy, healing, meditation, mysticism, study, Jewish traditions, rituals, blessings, life passages, special days, the everyday, repairing the world and more--offering, in one place, everything you need to discover all the directions that Jewish spirituality can go and can take you.

Contributors:

Isa Aron - Miriam Carey Berkowitz - Ellen Bernstein - Sylvia Boorstein - Eugene B. Borowitz - Anne Brener - Norman J. Cohen - David A. Cooper - Avram Davis - Wayne Dosick - Edward Feld - Nancy Flam - Tamar Frankiel - Nan Fink Gefen - Neil Gillman - Elyse Goldstein - Arthur Green - Judy Greenfeld - David Hartman - Mark Hass - Lee Myerhoff Hendler - Lawrence A. Hoffman - Karyn D. Kedar - Lawrence Kushner - Jane Rachel Litman - Daniel C. Matt - Levi Meier - James L. Mirel - Rebbe Nachman of Breslov - Kerry M. Olitzky - Jonathan Omer-Man - Debra Orenstein - Daniel F. Polish - Jack Riemer - Debra Judith Robbins - Jeffrey K. Salkin - Sandy Eisenberg Sasso - Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi - Dannel I. Schwartz - Sharon L. Sobel - Rifat Sonsino - Elie Kaplan Spitz - Nathaniel Stampfer - Ira F. Stone - Leora Tanenbaum - Arthur Waskow - Karen Bonnell Werth - Ron Wolfson - David Zeller - Sheldon Zimmerman

The royalties from The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook are donated by the contributors and publisher to America's Jewish seminaries.

About this title

About the Author

Neil Gillman, rabbi and PhD, is professor of Jewish philosophy at The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where he has served as chair of the Department of Jewish Philosophy and dean of the Rabbinical School. He is author of Believing and Its Tensions: A Personal Conversation about God, Torah, Suffering and Death in Jewish Thought; The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a Publishers Weekly "Best Book of the Year"; The Way Into Encountering God in Judaism; The Jewish Approach to God: A Brief Introduction for Christians; Traces of God: Seeing God in Torah, History and Everyday Life (all Jewish Lights); and Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew, winner of the National Jewish Book Award.

Synopsis

Drawing from information on more than 50 great spiritual leaders, this celebration of Jewish spirituality includes contributions from Norman J. Cohen, Ron Wofson, Judy Greenfield, Elyse Godstein, and many others. Simultaneous.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jewish Lights
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1580230938
• ISBN 13: 9781580230933
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 454
• Editor: Matlins Stuart M.