Argues that Judaism is founded on a relationship between man and God based on respect, responsibility, an reverence, discusses traditions of submission and self-assertion, and examines the role of God in human history

A Living Covenant: The Innovative Spirit in Traditional Judaism

Religion & Spirituality

Hartman, David

Judaism

Free Pr

In this powerful book one of the most important contemporary Jewish thinkers grapples with issues that increasingly divide Israel's secular Jewish community from its religious Zionists. Deeply committed to religious pluralism, David Hartman offers a new understanding of what it means to be Jewish--one that enables different Jewish groups to celebrate their own traditions without demonizing or patronizing others.The Terry Lectures

Israelis and the Jewish Tradition: An Ancient People Debating Its Future (The Terry Lectures Series)

History

World

Yale University Press

In this powerful book one of the most important Jewish thinkers in the world today grapples with issues that increasingly divide Israel’s secular Jewish community from its religious Zionists. Addressing the concerns of both communities from the point of view of one who is deeply committed to religious pluralism, David Hartman suggests a more inclusive and inviting framework for the modern Israeli engagement of the Jewish tradition. He offers a new understanding of what it means to be Jewish―one which is neither assimilationist nor backward-looking, and one that enables different Jewish groups to celebrate their own traditions without demonizing or patronizing others. In a world polarized between religious and secular and caught within a sectarian denominationalism, Hartman shows the way to build bridges of understanding.The book explores the philosophies of two major Jewish thinkers of the Middle Ages, Yehuda Halevi and Moses Maimonides. A careful analysis of Maimonides’ approach to Judaism shows that messianism is not the predominant organizing principle that makes Judaism intelligible and significant, Hartman contends. He argues against Halevi’s triumphalism and in favor of using the Sinai covenant for evaluating the religious significance of Israel, for this approach gives meaning to Zionists’ religious commitments while also empowering secular Israelis to reengage with the Jewish tradition.

Middle East

Maimonides: Torah and Philosophic Quest

Jewish Publication Society

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White Coat, White Cane : The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Blind Physician

Asbell, Bernard

Playboy Press

Whether it is suddenly losing a loved one, finding out your spouse is having an affair, learning that your child is using drugs, or discovering that a child has a major illness, shock is the body's way of saying, I can’t deal with this right now and I need a moment to collect myself.” When people experience trauma, they can be both damaged and shocked. While trauma is recorded in us psychologically, shock is recorded physiologically. This is why we can have both emotional and physical responses long after a traumatic event. Overcoming Shock explains the physiology of shock and how shock can control our responses to life. It shows how it impacts our lives and how it can be effectively treated. Zimberoff and Hartman explain that it is important to understand that nearly everybody experiences shock at one time or other in their lives. Overcoming Shock explores the effects of shock on our lives, including its profound impact on miscommunication, abuse in relationships, tenacious addictions, depression, mental illness, and even spiritual seeking. Here are proven tools for successful treatment and real-life examples of people who have overcome the debilitating patterns caused by shock and trauma.

Overcoming Shock: Healing the Traumatized Mind and Heart

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Zimberoff, Diane

Mental Health

New Horizon Press

The focus in psychology and psychotherapy for most of the twentieth century was on repairing the negatives of symptoms, traumas, disorders and deficits. Then around the turn of the century a refreshing movement began to gain credibility: Positive psychology and positive psychotherapy. Positive psychotherapy contrasts with standard therapeutic interventions for symptoms of mental or emotional dysfunction by increasing positive emotion, engagement, character strengths, and meaning rather than directly targeting negative symptoms. This developing trend is a direct descendent of the humanistic psychology movement and transpersonal psychology which evolved in the second half of the twentieth century. A further development in this continuum adds the dimension of adult development for optimal functioning into as yet unrealized potential: life coaching. Coaching hypnosis is the deliberate use of hypnotic strategies and principles as an adjunct to accepted coaching process. The inclusion of hypnosis, NLP techniques, and hypnotic strategies and principles in coaching is not only appropriate but highly effective. We will document some of the neuroscience reasons for this. Hypnosis creates a state of dual effect: relaxation yet responsiveness. The conscious mind is calmed, enabling access to the unconscious mind - 'trance logic' - a way of reasoning that does not follow the rules of 'normal' logical processes. Through this mechanism, an individual may have experiences and interpret them in ways that transcend their conscious rational belief system, opening new perspectives and expanded horizons of what is possible. Hypnosis: a new dimension in coaching.

From Therapy to Life Mastery: Coaching as a Natural Next Step from Hypnotherapy

Psychology & Counseling

Wellness Press

Abraham Maslow discovered a natural evolution of adult development, moving through meeting increasingly subtle human needs to self-transcendence and ego surrender. One’s ego surrenders by quieting, recognizing itself to be a sibling to other aspects of the psyche rather than a parent or an overlord, and acknowledging the rightful leadership of the ultimate organizing principle within, the Transpersonal Self. The quieting can follow the course of balance, seeking a “quiet-enough ego”, or of growth, seeking an “ever-quieter ego.” Either choice brings increasing tranquility amidst the challenges of life in today’s world because, paradoxically, an experience of ego surrender and of letting go increases an individual’s internal locus of control, the deep knowing that what happens to them is a consequence of their own actions. Transpersonal Psychology helps people by escorting them through the layers of their personal work: repairing damage done by early abuse and neglect, becoming accountable for one’s own shadow, meeting and befriending the archetypal inhabitants of one’s unconscious, and developing one’s optimal functioning to fulfill one’s destiny. Progress all the way to your highest potential, to the higher stages of ego development, what Abraham Maslow called “transcending self-actualization” and what Carl Jung called “individuation.” Transpersonal self-actualization is opening our visionary potential, clearing away the blocks that have kept us from seeing our own true light. Our shadows provide sanctuary for our fears, but also point the way to our greatest strengths. Create a vision for the future, and develop strategies for achieving that vision. An expanded worldview propels you to higher levels of meaning, life purpose, and identity - your real, true identity. Develop mindfulness, a witness perspective, taoistic receptivity, transcendence through humility, resilience and serenity. Experience the higher stages of ego development - “transcending self-actualization” or “individuation”.

Self-transcendence and Ego Surrender: A Quiet-enough Ego or an Ever-quieter Ego

Freaks! Monsters! Girls! The art of illustrator David Hartman. Now back in print. David Hartman is a director and producer of cartoons for film and television, however, his real passion is monsters. Dark, twisted and humorous works of the macabre.96 pages in full color with a forward written by Rob Zombie". Dave Hartman's artwork is like a school of Japanese piranha blasted from a photon canon into a blood red sky . . . he is kick ass". Jack black (Tenacious D, King Kong)

SIDESHOW MONKEY - The art of David Hartman

Humor & Entertainment

Lulu Press, Inc.

“‘A covenantal vision of life, with mitzvah (divine commandment) as the central organizing principle in the relationship between Jews and God, liberates the intellect and the moral will. I seek to show that a tradition mediated by the Sinai covenant can encourage the development of a human being who is not afraid to assume responsibility for the ongoing drama of Jewish history. Passive resignation is seen not to be an essential trait of one whose relationship to God is mediated by the hearing of mitzvot.” ―from the Introduction This interpretation of Jewish teaching will appeal to all people seeking to understand the relationship between the idea of divine demand and the human response, between religious tradition and modernity. Hartman shows that a life lived in Jewish tradition need not be passive, insulated, or self-effacing, but can be lived in the modern pluralistic world with passion, tolerance, and spontaneity. The Judaic tradition is often seen as being more concerned with uncritical obedience to law than with individual freedom and responsibility. In A Living Covenant, Hartman challenges this approach by revealing a Judaism grounded in a covenant―a relational framework―informed by the metaphor of marital love rather than that of parent-child dependency. This view of life places the individual firmly within community. Hartman shows that the Judaic tradition need not be understood in terms of human passivity and resignation, but rather as a vehicle by which human individuality and freedom can be expressed within a relational matrix.

Jewish Lights

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A Living Covenant: The Innovative Spirit in Traditional Judaism

Israelis and the Jewish Tradition: An Ancient People Debating Its Future (The Terry Lectures Series)

Israelis and the Jewish Tradition: An Ancient People Debating Its Future (The Terry Lectures Series)

Maimonides: Torah and Philosophic Quest

White Coat, White Cane : The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Blind Physician

Overcoming Shock: Healing the Traumatized Mind and Heart

From Therapy to Life Mastery: Coaching as a Natural Next Step from Hypnotherapy

Self-transcendence and Ego Surrender: A Quiet-enough Ego or an Ever-quieter Ego

SIDESHOW MONKEY - The art of David Hartman

A Living Covenant: The Innovative Spirit in Traditional Judaism