Sacred Struggle: Jewish Responses to Trauma
Sacred Struggle: Jewish Responses to Trauma
Sacred Struggle: Jewish Responses to Trauma
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How do we find the strength to continue when dealing with traumatic experiences? The Sacred Struggle: Jewish Responses to Trauma is a powerful anthology of personal stories, offering a deeply moving exploration of how Jewish wisdom can help us navigate life's most difficult moments. With stories including enduring the loss of a child, losing a loved one to suicide, surviving sexual assault, responding to a diagnosis of cancer, experiencing antisemitism and racism, and many more, this volume is rooted in vulnerability and resilience, revealing the profound ways Judaism offers tools for reflection, connection, and healing. Edited by Rabbi Lindsey Danziger and Rabbi Benjamin David, with a foreword by Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, The Sacred Struggle is a companion for anyone seeking comfort and hope in the face of trauma.
In this book you will find the genuine voices of life as it is lived-in pain, with struggle, and offering the wisdom to endure and prevail. A work of great range, it is a bracing book, an important book, and a gift to all of us.
-Rabbi David Wolpe, author of Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times
Who among us has not been touched by trauma? Violence? Natural disaster? Illness? Marginalization? Family dysfunction? In this challenging and thought provoking
book, rabbis reflect on the Torah of their lives, as well as the Torah of tradition, to give us insight into the ways we are all affected by trauma and the
many different paths to healing.
-Rabbi Laura Geller, coauthor of Moments That Matter: Marking Transitions in Midlife and Beyond
Trauma may shatter us. It doesn't have to end us. ... There is a way forward. I pray that this volume can be a source of strength for you.
- From the foreword by Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, PhD, Temple Emanuel, Winston-Salem, NC
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
In this book you will find the genuine voices of life as it is lived--in pain, with struggle, and offering the wisdom to endure and prevail. A work of great range, it is a bracing book, an important book, and a gift to all of us.
-Rabbi David Wolpe, author of Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times
Who among us has not been touched by trauma? Violence? Natural disaster? Illness? Marginalization? Family dysfunction? In this challenging and thought-provoking book, rabbis reflect on the Torah of their lives, as well as the Torah of tradition, to give us insight into the ways we are all affected by trauma and the many different paths to healing.
-Rabbi Laura Geller, coauthor of Moments That Matter: Marking Transitions in Midlife and Beyond
Trauma may shatter us. It doesn't have to end us. ... There is a way forward. I pray that this volume can be a source of strength for you.
- From the foreword by Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, Temple Emanuel, Winston-Salem, NC
A thoughtful set of reflections from religious leaders and others on how Jewish history, teachings, and traditions engage with crisis, tragedy, and their fallout. ... Though aimed at Jewish readers, the collection's emotional honesty will resonate with anyone interested in how tradition can help one face what can't necessarily be fixed. A searching, intimate guide to how Jewish tradition holds suffering with meaning and presence.
--Kirkus Reviews
Timely, informative, compelling, inspired, and inspiring
--Midwest Book Review
The writers featured show the struggles they went through in order to reconcile Judaism and the trauma they experienced, while outlining the different paths that often took. ... The essays are uniformly well done, although different ones will obviously resonate with readers depending on their life experiences or the skill of the author.
-- Rabbi Rachel Esserman, The Reporter Group
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