Many parents find it easier to talk to their children about sex and other intimate matters than to answer questions about God, prayer, good, and evil. In fact, parents may feel they don't know the answers to such questions for themselves, much less for their young children. In Teaching Your Children About God, Rabbi David Wolpe shows Jewish parents how to openly explore the idea of God with their children. Through poignant anecdotes and practical exercises, Wolpe teaches how parents can guide children in the practice of prayer and create an atmosphere in which children feel comfortable questioning and wondering about God, life, and death. Wolpe also offers invaluable insights into children's spiritual needs, reveals the powerful effect faith can have on a child's self-esteem, and enables parents to understand their children's fears, dreams, and hopes. Perhaps most important, this wise and potentially life-changing book shows parents who may feel something missing In their own spiritual lives that it is possible to nourish their own souls even as they nurture their children's.

Teaching Your Children About God: A Modern Jewish Approach

Parenting & Relationships

Wolpe, David J.

Family Relationships

Harper-perennial

Why Faith Matters is an articulate defense of religion in America. It makes the case for faith and shows its relationship to history and science. Refuting the cold reason of atheists and the hatred of fanatics with a vision of religion informed by faith, love, and understanding, Rabbi David J. Wolpe follows in a literary tradition that stretches from Cardinal Newman to C. S. Lewis to Thomas Merton—individuals of faith who brought religion and culture together in their own works. Wolpe takes readers through the origins and nature of faith, the role of the Bible in modern life, and the compatibility of God and science, concluding with a powerful argument for the place of God, faith, and religion in today's world.

Why Faith Matters

History

World

HarperOne

Looks at the ancient traditions of the Bible, the Talmud, and the Midrash, showing how God can still speak to modern life

The Healer of Shattered Hearts: A Jewish View of God

Religion & Spirituality

Henry Holt Co.

Drawing on the Bible, Talmud, and Midrashic sources, the author traces the Jewish search for God through language. By the author of The Healer of Shattered Hearts. 15,000 first printing. Tour.

In Speech and in Silence: The Jewish Quest for God

Judaism

A rabbi shows parents how to explain God to children, revealing ways in which individuals can explain what God expects of human beings, how humans talk to God, and why bad things happen to good people. 25,000 first printing.

Parenting

Drawing on the Bible, Talmud, and Midrashic sources, the author traces the Jewish search for God through language

Owlet

Why Be Jewish?

"All beginnings require that you unlock new doors."--Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav
In this short and inspiring text, Rabbi David J. Wolpe addresses all who seek to enlarge the spiritual side of their lives. For those considering a return to the faith of their forebears, for those drawn to conversion, Why Be Jewish? is a learned, graceful, and welcoming introduction beckoning readers into the heart of this venerable and enduring religion.

Holt Paperbacks

Presents an introduction to Judaism, exploring Jewish tradition, religion, people, and the ways Judaism can transform one's life

We are taught to study, to learn, and to let ourselves grow Jewishly. But where does being the people of the book get us in the real world? David Wolpe's collection of essays responds to this question by exploring how Jewish values, such as scholarship and compassion, together with Jewish practice, enhance an individual's private and public life. How does Shabbat help deflect us from the pressures of the societal rat-race? How can Jewish learning subdue political unrest? Rabbi Wolpe draws the lessons of this collection from a variety of religious and historical sources, finding the importance of Israel in a Robert Frost poem, the nature of God in the words of Beowulf, and parenting lessons in the fatherly techniques of King David. The essays address diverse topics ranging from assimilation to Zionism to Jewish concepts of life and death. Rabbi Wolpe asks the questions, sometimes profound, sometimes light-hearted, that challenge us to consider how we live as Jews, how our Jewish lives are influenced by our secular surroundings, and how we can develop our Jewish souls by continuing to learn from new sources while remaining open to spiritual growth. Some of these questions include: Is it wrong to admire Kant, Voltaire, and Roald Dahl if they were anti-Semitic? How can we reconcile our American family traditions with our Jewish family traditions? In an evolutionary debate, do God and Steven Pinker stand behind opposite podiums? Do we need such a thing as a Jewish home? A Jewish homeland? Why does Walt Whitman think we should stay awake during the rabbi's sermon? What lessons of aging gracefully can we learn from Rabbi Akiba and Grandma Moses? An ideal gift for teachers, Confirmationstudents, grads, and new families that join the congregation.

Floating Takes Faith

Behrman House

Sharing a message of hope in difficult times, a rabbi explains how the inevitable appearance of loss in our lives can become a source of strength, faith, hope, meaning, and purpose rather than of despair.

Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times

Self-Help

Death & Grief

Riverhead Hardcover

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Teaching Your Children About God: A Modern Jewish Approach

Why Faith Matters

The Healer of Shattered Hearts: A Jewish View of God

In Speech and in Silence: The Jewish Quest for God

Teaching Your Children About God: A Modern Jewish Approach

In Speech and in Silence: The Jewish Quest for God

Why Be Jewish?

Why Be Jewish?

Floating Takes Faith

Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times