{"product_id":"the-jewish-lights-spirituality-handbook-a-guide-to-understanding-exploring-living-a-spiritual-life-9781580230933","title":"The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook: A Guide to Understanding, Exploring \u0026 Living a Spiritual Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat is \"Jewish Spirituality\"? How do I make it part of my life? Today's foremost spiritual leaders share their ideas and experience. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether you are just curious, intently searching for greater personal meaning, or actively seeking ideas, information, practices and inspiration to enrich your spiritual life, \u003cem\u003eThe Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook \u003c\/em\u003eis the ideal companion for your journey as it explores: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAwakening the Possibilities: \u003c\/b\u003e What Is Jewish Spirituality?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Worlds of Your Life: \u003c\/b\u003e Where Is Spirituality Found?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Times and Seasons of Your Life: \u003c\/b\u003e When Does Spirituality Enter?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSwords and Plowshares: \u003c\/b\u003eHow to Forge the Tools that Will Make It Happen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSo What Do You Do With It?\u003c\/b\u003e Why Spirituality Should Be Part of Your Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifty 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 \u003cem\u003eeveryday\u003c\/em\u003e, repairing the world and more--offering, in one place, everything you need to discover \u003cem\u003eall\u003c\/em\u003e the directions that Jewish spirituality can go and can take you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContributors: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsa 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe royalties from \u003cem\u003eThe Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook\u003c\/em\u003e are donated by the contributors and publisher to America's Jewish seminaries.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGillman, Neil:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNeil Gillman\u003c\/strong\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eBelieving 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, \u003c\/em\u003e a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e \"Best Book of the Year\"; \u003cem\u003eThe 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\u003c\/em\u003e (all Jewish Lights); and \u003cem\u003eSacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew, \u003c\/em\u003e winner of the National Jewish Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoldstein, Elyse:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRabbi Elyse Goldstein\u003c\/strong\u003e, one of the leading rabbis of a new generation, is director of Kolel: The Adult Center for Liberal Jewish Learning, a full-time progressive adult Jewish learning center. Goldstein lectures frequently throughout North America. She is also editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Women's Torah Commentary: New Insights from Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Torah Portions\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eThe Women's Haftarah Commentary: New Insights from Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Haftarah Portions, the 5 Megillot and Special Shabbatot\u003c\/em\u003e; and author of the award-winning \u003cem\u003eNew Jewish Feminism: Probing the Past, Forging the Future and ReVisions: Seeing Torah through a Feminist Lens\u003c\/em\u003e (all Jewish Lights).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRabbi Elyse Goldstein\u003c\/strong\u003e is available to speak on the following topics: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWomen and Judaism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReform Judaism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJewish Parenting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeneral Judaica\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreen, Arthur:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArthur Green, PhD, \u003c\/strong\u003e is recognized as one of the world's preeminent authorities on Jewish thought and spirituality. He is the Irving Brudnick professor of philosophy and religion at Hebrew College and rector of the Rabbinical School, which he founded in 2004. Professor emeritus at Brandeis University, he also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where he served as dean and president.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Green is author of several books including \u003cem\u003eEhyeh: A Kabbalah for Tomorrow; Seek My Face: A Jewish Mystical Theology; Your Word Is Fire: The Hasidic Masters on Contemplative Prayer;\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTormented Master: The Life and Spiritual Quest of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav\u003c\/em\u003e (all Jewish Lights). 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