The Jewish Pregnancy Book: A Resource for the Soul, Body & Mind during Pregnancy, Birth & the First Three Months - Softcover

Falk M.D., Sandy; Judson, Rabbi Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580231780 ISBN 13: 9781580231787

Publisher: Jewish Lights, 2003

Synopsis

Women are increasingly looking to make their pregnancy and birth a spiritually meaningful experience but those looking for Jewish resources to help them have found little available. THE JEWISH PREGNANCY BOOK meets this need by creating and renewing Jewish prayers and rituals for this miraculous and challenging time in a woman's life. From reviving prayers our foremothers wrote and passed from one generation to the next to investigating medical and ethical issues from a Jewish perspective to exercising the whole body with pre-natal aleph-bet yoga this groundbreaking handbook addresses the whole being the mind body and soul of the pregnant Jewish woman. · For the mind - Medical information on topics such as foetal development pre-natal testing and potential pregnancy problems as well as discussions from a liberal Jewish perspective on ethical issues such as selective reduction and home birth. · For the body - Pre-natal aleph-bet yoga a unique blend of yoga and Hebrew letters · For the soul - Ancient and modern prayers and rituals for each stage of pregnancy as well as traditional Jewish wisdom on pregnancy

About this title

Review

"A superb contribution to the field of pregnancy, especially geared to the Jewish reader. I recommend it highly for its completeness. The material on pre-natal diagnosis is potentially very important to Ashkenazi Jews. I also recommend this book because of the very well-chosen prayers."
―Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer, author (with Jonathan Marks) of Heavenly Sex: Sex in the Jewish Tradition

“Informed by good science, Jewish insight and the wisdom of the body as expressed through yoga ... a rich collection of information, inspiration and support for expectant parents.”
―Anita Diamant, author of The New Jewish Baby Book: Names, Ceremonies & Customs―A Guide for Today's Families and The New Jewish Wedding

About the Author

Sandy Falk, MD, is a clinical instructor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Harvard Medical School and practices at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Rabbi Daniel Judson, spiritual leader of Temple Beth David of the South Shore in Canton, Massachusetts, is coeditor of The Rituals and Practices of a Jewish Life: A Handbook for Personal Spiritual Renewal and coauthor of The Jewish Pregnancy Book: A Resource for the Soul, Body and Mind during Pregnancy, Birth and the First Three Months (both Jewish Lights). He is a frequent guest speaker at both Jewish and Christian congregations.

Steven A. Rapp has been a yoga practitioner for over ten years and is a yoga teacher in Boston. He is author of Aleph-Bet Yoga: Embodying the Hebrew Letters for Physical and Spiritual Well-Being and coauthor of The Jewish Pregnancy Book: A Resource for the Soul, Body and Mind During Pregnancy, Birth and the First Three Months. He also teaches religious school at Temple Beth David in Canton, Massachusetts, and offers personal instruction to those seeking to link traditional yoga practice and Judaism. He lives with his wife and three children in Randolph, Massachusetts.

Steven A. Rapp is available to speak on the following topics:

• Jewish Approach to Yoga

About this edition

• Publisher: Jewish Lights
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1580231780
• ISBN 13: 9781580231787
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208