Moses - The Prince, the Prophet : His Life, Legend & Message for Our Lives - Hardcover

Meier, Rabbi Levi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 158023013X ISBN 13: 9781580230131

Publisher: Jewish Lights, 1998

Synopsis

How can the struggles of a great biblical figure help you
to improve your life today?

To help us cope with the burdens of our own “Egypts,” author Levi Meier brings to life the struggles, failures, and triumphs that reveal the human side of Moses, a central figure in Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions. Engaging, empowering and insightful, Moses―The Prince, the Prophet shows how personal struggle and perseverance create a foundation for liberation and change while teaching us about ourselves―our role in life, our struggles and our relationship with God.

More than a biography, Moses―The Prince, the Prophet is a personal guide to growth for each of us. It explores a life intertwined with the story of a people―from the Israelite Exodus from Egypt and the birth of a new nation, to the Divine revelation at Mount Sinai.

Author Levi Meier―chaplain, clinical psychologist, and rabbi―knows how people struggle for healing and meaning in their lives. He brings the drama of these events from biblical history into today to show the very human side of Moses―a person who, like ourselves, experienced self-doubt, fear, suffering, failure and success.

Through examining Moses’s experiences and the common threads they share with ours, we are taught lessons for our lives. Drawing on the stories in the Book of Exodus, midrash (finding contemporary meaning from ancient Jewish texts), the teachings of Jewish mystics, modern texts and psychotherapy, Meier offers new ways to create our own path to self-knowledge, self-fulfillment and self-actualization―and face life’s difficulties head-on.

About this title

About the Author

Rabbi Levi Meier, PhD, is chaplain of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is a clinical psychologist and was one of the religious leaders who "screened" The Prince of Egypt for the DreamWorks Studio. He is also the author of Moses―The Prince, the Prophet: His Life, Legend & Message for our Lives and Ancient Secrets: Using the Stories of the Bible to Improve Our Everyday Lives (Jewish Lights).

Reviews

Rabbi and clinical psychologist Meier (Ancient Secrets: Using the Stories of the Bible to Improve Our Everyday Lives, Villard, 1996) here presents a condensed version of the life of Moses. Chapters on deliverance, faith, kindness, and compassion review the story, and the book ends with ten important insights gained from the tale. The simple reading of the Old Testament and midrash (biblical interpretation) gives the reader a feeling of a story only half told and seems to disregard a large part of human existence. Meier has not written a religious work but rather a personal guide to fulfillment and healing. The study uses many quotes in a haphazard and eclectic manner, and Meier's description of symbols and ideas lacks intellectual depth and insight, confusing religious thought and historic incident. Recommended only for New Age and self-help collections.?Gene Shaw, New York P.L.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Jewish Lights
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 158023013X
• ISBN 13: 9781580230131
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212