A Map for the Inner Journey, for Seekers and Guides Alike Written with warmth, compassion, and deep understanding, this book offers a map of the inner journey for exploring the time-honored practice of spiritual guidance. Carol Ochs and Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky speak both to those who seek a Jewish perspective on the spiritual life and those who wish to guide others in this search. Drawing deeply on the riches of the Torah and other important Jewish sources, Jewish Spiritual Guidance offers wisdom and insight to all religious seekers?lay and ordained, Jewish and non-Jewish. They examine the broad principles of spiritual guidance, describing it as the journey of two people?seeker and guide?through the wilderness toward God. The central relationship is not between the seeker and the guide but between the seeker and God. The guide is a companion who helps the seeker discover patterns, articulate insights, and remain faithful. All the lessons that the guide teaches the seeker are lessons that the guide is also learning, again and again. This much-needed resource will not only nourish the seeker-guide relationship but also inspire discussions in adult education classes, minyanim, and prayer groups. All religious seekers will find wisdom and understanding through this illuminating book. CONTENTS Introduction: Seeking and Guiding on the Spiritual Way 1. Finding Our Spiritual Maps 2. Meeting God Through Prayer 3. Listening with Spiritual Attentiveness 4. Recognizing the Spiritual Path 5. Understanding Our Fears 6. Revisiting Our Images of God 7. Engaging God Through the Study of Sacred Texts 8. Encountering Temptation and Sin 9. Enduring the Spiritual Desert 10. Drawing from and Giving to Community 11. Continuing the Spiritual Journey

Jewish Spiritual Guidance: Finding Our Way to God (The Jossey-Bass Religion-In-Practice Series)

Religion & Spirituality

Olitzky, Kerry M.

Ochs, Carol

Judaism

Jossey-Bass

Rabbis, educators, and longtime colleagues, Kerry M. Olitzky and Leonard S. Kravitz have together produced a series of modern commentaries on fundamental Jewish texts. Each of these editions features a line-by-line translation coupled with the original text and commentary, breathing new life into traditional rabbinic readings. Each also contains essays and gleanings that draw upon the works of other scholars to better enhance the reader’s understanding of the subject. This series is a wonderful addition to your Jewish library, whether you are approaching the texts for the first time or the hundredth time. It is suited for both individual reflection and class study. 
Passages from the Book of Proverbs have worked their way into our siddur and Jewish vocabulary. This new gender-sensitive translation and commentary will help bring the timeless teachings of Proverbs to a new generation of readers. 
Other works in the Kravitz and Olitzky modern commentary series: 
- Shemonah Perakim: A Treatise on the Soul 
- Kohelet: A Modern Commentary on Ecclesiastes 
- Pirke Avot: A Modern Commentary on Jewish Ethics 
- Shir HaShirim: A Modern Commentary on the Song of Songs 
- Ruth: A Modern Commentary

Mishlei: A Modern Commentary on Proverbs

Kravitz, Leonard S.

Urj Pr

A guide through the preparations for Passover, defining the observance not only as a religious and social ritual but also a spiritual jorney, one that is repeated and refined through the course of our lives.

Preparing Your Heart for Passover: A Guide for Spiritual Readiness

Jewish Pubn Society

2,400 entries on most every aspect of Judaism including theology, religious practices, daily living, and world history.

A Glossary of Jewish Life

Reference

Isaacs, Ronald H.

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Jason Aronson, Inc.

The How To Handbook for Jewish Living

History

World

Ktav Pub & Distributors Inc

Book by Olitzky, Kerry M., Isaacs, Ronald H.

The How-To Handbook for Jewish Living

An easy-to-follow guide for the bereaved that answers questions that mourners have been asking for years: Customs and rituals, burial, mourning and post-mourning observances. The appendix includes prayers, meditations, visiting the cemetery, reflections and readings.

A Jewish Mourner's Handbook

Isaacs, Ron H.

From Library Journal If God exists, why is there evil in the world? Did biblical miracles really happen? Why do people have to die? Why do we have Jewish rituals? Why do some people hate Jews? This is a self-help book designed for concerned Jewish parents whose kids (five to nine) begin asking embarrassing or difficult questions regarding God, religion, Judaism in particular, and their Jewish identity. These 40 or so questions are answered by prominent Jewish educators, professors, and rabbis. A useful, helpful book with one major caveat: most of the contents express the theological and philosophical viewpoints of the liberal Reform and Reconstructionist wings of American Judaism. Many Conservative and Orthodox Jews would not find the insights offered here congenial with their orientation. For large Judaica collections and Reform synagogue libraries.- Robert A. Silver, Shaker Heights P.L., OhioCopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

When Your Jewish Child Asks Why: Answers for Tough Questions

Rosman, Steven M.

Kasakove, David P.

Sacred celebrations: A Jewish holiday handbook

Book by Isaacs, Ronald H., Olitzky, Kerry M.

Sacred Celebrations: A Jewish Holiday Handbook

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Jewish Spiritual Guidance: Finding Our Way to God (The Jossey-Bass Religion-In-Practice Series)

Mishlei: A Modern Commentary on Proverbs

Preparing Your Heart for Passover: A Guide for Spiritual Readiness

A Glossary of Jewish Life

The How To Handbook for Jewish Living

The How-To Handbook for Jewish Living

A Jewish Mourner's Handbook

When Your Jewish Child Asks Why: Answers for Tough Questions

When Your Jewish Child Asks Why: Answers for Tough Questions

Sacred Celebrations: A Jewish Holiday Handbook