Psyched for Torah

Psyched for Torah
Author: Mordechai Schiffman
Publisher: Kodesh Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2022-01-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781947857766

Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman has done a masterful job of showing how Torah values and psychological insights can be woven together to become an integral part of our religious lives. This is a powerful book that will no doubt deepen your appreciation of Torah while simultaneously providing new perspectives on your own life and sense of self. Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, President, Yeshiva University Dr. Schiffman's exploration of psychological factors through the lens of Torah is inspired and inspiring. With his deep understanding of both realms, Dr. Schiffman invites the reader to a deeper understanding of ancient wisdom for today's times. Dr. Rona Novick, Dean, Azrieli Graduate School, Yeshiva University Rabbi Dr. Schiffman is a clear and methodical thinker who has supplemented his years of rabbinical studies with the highest level of training with some of the leading experts in psychology. The wisdom and practical guidance that emerges from these two streams of insight will enrich the lives of readers, helping them to achieve depth and integration in their weekly review of the Torah reading. Dr. David Pelcovitz, Straus Chair in Psychology, Yeshiva University Dr. Mordechai Schiffman offers us nuggets of wisdom on every page that integrate psychology and the weekly parsha, distilling ideas into accessible and relevant ways to reframe our understanding of the ancient stories that serve as the touchstone of a Torah life and offers us insights into ourselves along the way. Dr. Erica Brown, Vice Provost and Director of Sacks Center, Yeshiva University Mordechai Schiffman has written an important book that bridges ancient wisdom and modern research, theory and practice, religion and psychology. This is a powerful guide that can help you gain a deeper, more nuanced understanding of the Torah--as well as lead a happier and more fulfilling life. Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar, Founder of Happiness Studies Academy and Founder of Maytiv Center

The Judaic Foundations of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

The Judaic Foundations of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Author: Ronald W. Pies MD
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2010-12-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781450273565

What does rabbinical Judaism have to teach us about the way the mind works? How do the rabbis of the Talmud, Middle Ages, and our own time shed light on emotional disturbances, and on the cognitive-behavioral therapies used to treat them? In this panoramic view of rabbinical Judaism, psychiatrist Ronald Pies MD shows how cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT) rely on psychological principles found in both ancient and modern Judaic writings. “The interplay between thought and deed is a central feature of Judaic affirmation. Control the thought and the deed will follow. Dr. Ronald Pies’s book explores this connection in depth, and the inter-relationships that he weaves are at once illuminating and empowering.” –Rabbi Dr. Reuven P. Bulka

The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling

The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling
Author: Michelle Friedman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2016-11-18
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1315535327

The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling provides a clear, practical guide to working with congregants in a range of settings and illustrates the skills and core principles needed for effective pastoral counseling. The material is drawn from Jewish life and rabbinic pastoral counseling, but the fundamental principles in these pages apply to all faith traditions and to a wide variety of counselling relationships. Drawing on relational psychodynamic ideas but writing in a very accessible style, Friedman and Yehuda cover when, how and why counseling may be sought, how to set up sessions, conduct the work in those sessions and deal with difficult situations, maintain confidentiality, conduct groupwork and approach traumatic and emotive subjects. They guide the reader through the foundational principles and topics of pastoral counseling and illustrate the journey with accessible and lively vignettes. By using real life examples accompanied by guided questions, the authors help readers to learn practical techniques as well as gain greater self-awareness of their own strengths and vulnerabilities. With a host of examples from pastoral and clinical experience, this book will be invaluable to anyone offering counselling to both the Jewish community and those of other faiths. The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling will appeal to psychoanalysts, particularly those working with Jewish clients, counselors, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and rabbis offering pastoral counseling, as well as clergy of other faiths such as ministers, priests, imams and lay chaplains.

Letters to Josep

Letters to Josep
Author: Levy Daniella
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-03-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789659254002

This book is a collection of letters from a religious Jew in Israel to a Christian friend in Barcelona on life as an Orthodox Jew. Equal parts lighthearted and insightful, it's a thorough and entertaining introduction to the basic concepts of Judaism.

An Ode to Joy

An Ode to Joy
Author: Erica Brown
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2023-12-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3031282299

Before his rather sudden passing in 2020, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks was one of the most eloquent and influential religious leaders of the generation. As Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth for over two decades, he offered a universal message cultivated from the Jewish and Western cannons he knew so well. One concept that figured prominently in his work was joy. “I think of Judaism as an ode to joy,” he once wrote. “Like Beethoven, Jews have known suffering, isolation, hardship, and rejection, yet they never lacked the religious courage to rejoice.” In this volume, organized by the Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership, academics and writers explore the significance of joy within the Jewish tradition. These essays and reflections discuss traditional Jewish primary sources, including Biblical, Rabbinic and Hebrew literature, Jewish history and philosophy, education, the arts, and positive psychology, and of course, through the prism of Lord Sacks’ work.

Torah and Western Thought

Torah and Western Thought
Author: Meir Y. Soloveichik
Publisher: Maggid
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Jewish learning and scholarship
ISBN: 9781592644360

Intellectual Portraits of Orthodoxy and Modernity.

No Sense of Obligation

No Sense of Obligation
Author: Matt Young
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2001-10-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0759610886

Some of the Praise for No Sense of Obligation . . . fascinating analysis of religious belief -- Steve Allen, author, composer, entertainer [A] tour de force of science and religion, reason and faith, denoting in clear and unmistakable language and rhetoric what science really reveals about the cosmos, the world, and ourselves. Michael Shermer, Publisher, Skeptic Magazine; Author, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science About the Book Rejecting belief without evidence, a scientist searches the scientific, theological, and philosophical literature for a sign from God--and finds him to be an allegory. This remarkable book, written in the laypersons language, leaves no room for unproven ideas and instead seeks hard evidence for the existence of God. The author, a sympathetic critic and observer of religion, finds instead a physical universe that exists reasonlessly. He attributes good and evil to biology, not to God. In place of theism, the author gives us the knowledge that the universe is intelligible and that we are grownups, responsible for ourselves. He finds salvation in the here and now, and no ultimate purpose in life, except as we define it.

Ani Maamin

Ani Maamin
Author: Joshua Berman
Publisher: Maggid
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781592645381

Precious Metal

Precious Metal
Author: Albert Mudrian
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2009-07-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0786749628

Decibel magazine is regarded as the best extreme music magazine around. Precious Metal gathers pieces from Decibel's most popular feature, the monthly “Hall of Fame” which documents the making of landmark metal albums via candid, hilarious, and fascinating interviews with every participating band member. Decibel's editor-in-chief Albert Mudrian, has selected and expanded the best of these features, creating a definitive collection of stories behind the greatest extreme metal albums of all time.

Squirrel Hill

Squirrel Hill
Author: Mark Oppenheimer
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0525657193

A piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of one of America's renowned Jewish neighborhoods in the wake of unspeakable tragedy that highlights the hopes, fears, and tensions all Americans must confront on the road to healing. Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, known for its tight-knit community and the profusion of multigenerational families. On October 27, 2018, a gunman killed eleven Jews who were worshipping at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill--the most deadly anti-Semitic attack in American history. Many neighborhoods would be understandably subsumed by despair and recrimination after such an event, but not this one. Mark Oppenheimer poignantly shifts the focus away from the criminal and his crime, and instead presents the historic, spirited community at the center of this heartbreak. He speaks with residents and nonresidents, Jews and gentiles, survivors and witnesses, teenagers and seniors, activists and historians. Together, these stories provide a kaleidoscopic and nuanced account of collective grief, love, support, and revival. But Oppenheimer also details the difficult dialogue and messy confrontations that Squirrel Hill had to face in the process of healing, and that are a necessary part of true growth and understanding in any community. He has reverently captured the vibrancy and caring that still characterize Squirrel Hill, and it is this phenomenal resilience that can provide inspiration to any place burdened with discrimination and hate.