Grief in Our Seasons: A Mourner's Kaddish Companion - Softcover

Olitzky, Rabbi Kerry M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1879045559 ISBN 13: 9781879045552

Publisher: Jewish Lights, 1998

Synopsis

Jewish tradition encourages study as a way of honoring the memory of those who are no longer among us. Grief in Our Seasons offers a comforting link between study and the tradition of saying Kaddish, helping those who are mourning to heal at their own pace and to cherish the memory of their loved ones each and every day.

Each section of Grief in Our Seasons is devoted to a stage of mourning, providing daily readings from sacred Jewish texts and words of inspiration, comfort and understanding. "Meditations Before Saying Kaddish" share the insights of others who have faced the challenges of mourning, and tell how they found solace during the process.

About this title

About the Author:

Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky, named one of the fifty leading rabbis in North America by Newsweek, is well known for his inspiring books that bring the Jewish wisdom tradition into everyday life. He is executive director of Big Tent Judaism, formerly Jewish Outreach Institute, and is author of many books on Jewish spirituality, healing and Jewish religious practice, including Making a Successful Jewish Interfaith Marriage: The Big Tent Judaism Guide to Opportunities, Challenges and Resources; Introducing My Faith and My Community: The Jewish Outreach Institute Guide for a Christian in a Jewish Interfaith Relationship; Jewish Paths toward Healing and Wholeness: A Personal Guide to Dealing with Suffering; Grief in Our Seasons: A Mourner's Kaddish Companion; Twelve Jewish Steps to Recovery: A Personal Guide to Turning from Alcoholism & Other Addictions―Drugs, Food, Gambling, Sex...; Facing Cancer as a Family; Life's Daily Blessings: Inspiring Reflections on Gratitude for Every Day, Based on Jewish Wisdom; 100 Blessings Every Day: Daily Twelve Step Recovery Affirmations, Exercises for Personal Growth and Renewal Reflecting Seasons of the Jewish Year and Recovery from Codependance: A Jewish Twelve Step Guide to Healing Your Soul. He is also coauthor of Grandparenting Interfaith Grandchildren; Jewish Holidays: A Brief Introduction for Christians; Jewish Ritual: A Brief Introduction for Christians; Renewed Each Day, Vol. One―Genesis and Exodus: Daily Twelve Step Recovery Meditations; Renewed Each Day, Vol. Two―Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy: Daily Twelve Step Recovery Meditations Based on the Bible and coeditor of The Rituals and Practices of a Jewish Life: A Handbook for Personal Spiritual Renewal (all Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky is available to speak on the following topics:

• The Jewish Twelve Step Path to Healing and Recovery
• Sparks Beneath the Surface: A Spiritual Read on the Torah
• Welcoming the Stranger in Our Midst
• How to Nurture Jewish Grandchildren Being Raised in an Interfaith Family
• Optimism for a Jewish Future

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Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

God will destroy death forever. My God will wipe the tears away from all faces.--Isaiah 25:8

It seems too hard to believe that God will rid the world of death. This is Isaiah's messianic vision for the future. At the end of time as we know it, no longer will we feel the pain of the survivor, what we feel each day during our mourning. But why mention this idea on Shabbat? Because Shabbat offers us a foretaste of that world. According to author, poet, and playwright Deena Metzger, Sabbath exists in the midst of devastation. . . . This is the Sabbath: A little rain in the midst of drought, vision in the very moment of understanding nothing, a flash of beauty in a broken bowl and the miraculous insistent vitality of the body and the heart.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jewish Lights
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1879045559
• ISBN 13: 9781879045552
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448