Healing and the Jewish Imagination (eBook, ePUB)

Spiritual and Practical Perspectives on Judaism and Health
Redaktion: Cutter, Rabbi William

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Where Judaism and health intersect, healing may begin.

Essential reading for people interested in the Jewish healing, spirituality and spiritual direction movements, this groundbreaking volume explores the Jewish tradition for comfort in times of illness and Judaism's perspectives on the inevitable suffering with which we live.

Pushing the boundaries of Jewish knowledge, scholars, teachers, artists and activists examine the aspects of our mortality and the important distinctions between curing and healing. Topics discussed include:

• The Importance of the Individual
• Health and Healing among the Mystics
• Hope and the Hebrew Bible
• From Disability to Enablement
• Overcoming Stigma
• Jewish Bioethics

Drawing from literature, personal experience, and the foundational texts of Judaism, these celebrated thinkers show us that healing is an idea that can both soften us so that we are open to inspiration as well as toughen us-like good scar tissue-in order to live with the consequences of being human.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781580235945
• Artikelnr.: 49988127

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments v
Introduction: The Intersection of Judaism and Health
Healing and Curing
William Cutter
A Physician's Reflection on the Jewish Healing Movement
Howard Silverman
1. The Importance of the Individual in Jewish Thought and Writing
Choose Life: American Jews and the Quest for Healing
Arnold Eisen
Literature and the Tragic Vision
William Cutter
2. Health and Healing among the Mystics
Mystical Sources of the Healing Movement
Arthur Green
Wisdom, Balance, Healing: Reflections on Mind and Body in an Early Hasidic
Text
Eitan P. Fishbane
3. Hope and the Hebrew Bible
Reading the Bible as a Healing Text
Tamara Eskenazi
"Call Me Bitterness": Individual Responses to Despair
Adriane Leveen
4. From Disability to Enablement
Judaism and the Disabled: The Need for a Copernican Revolution
Elliot Dorff
Misheberach and the ADA: A Response to Elliot Dorff
Tamara M. Green
5. Overcoming Stigma
Spoiled Identity and the Search for Holiness: Stigma, Death, and the Jewish
Community
David I. Shulman
Those Who Turn Away Their Faces: Tzaraat and Stigma
Rachel Adler
The New Man, Illness, and Healing
Albert J. Winn
6. Jewish Bioethics in Story and Law
An Expanded Approach to Jewish Bioethics: A Liberal/Aggadic Approach
Peter Knobel
The Narrative and the Normative: The Value of Stories for Jewish Ethics
Louis E. Newman
Conclusion: Looking Back, Moving Forward
The History of Invention: Doctors, Medicine, and Jewish Culture
David B. Ruderman
Notes