Description: Ten psalms form the core of this healing resource. For anyone coping with illness, they provide a wellspring of strength with inspiring introductions and commentaries by eminent spiritual leaders reflecting all Jewish movements.
Brief description:
Rabbi Harlan J. Wechsler (Conservative) is rabbi of Congregation Or Zarua in New York City and the author of What's So Bad About Guilt? and Old Is Good. He is assistant professor of Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he received his rabbinic ordination.
Review Quotes:
"The Jewish Healing Center and Jewish Lights have provided ten valuable entry-points into the spiritual healing of the Book of Psalms."
-Rabbi Alan Silverstein, president, Rabbinical Assembly
"Opens us anew to the ancient wisdom and comfort of the psalms."
-Joan Borysenko, PhD, author, Minding the Body, Mending the Mind
"[A] book one reads and rereads many, many times, that one strives to absorb and to be absorbed by, and that one keeps close at hand, so that one can be nourished by it in times of fear and stress and loneliness."
-Rabbi Jack Riemer, editor, So That Your Values Live On-Ethical Wills and How to Prepare Them; founder of the National Rabbinic Network
"Will bring comfort to anyone fortunate enough to read it. This gentle book is a luminous gem of wisdom."
-Larry Dossey, MD, author, Healing Words: The Power of Prayer & the Practice of Medicine
"An inspiration and guide to those who want to rejoice in their affliction, and bring healing and salvation to themselves and those around them."
-Dr. Bernie Siegel, author, Love, Medicine and Miracles
"As valuable a guide to the psalms as it is a guide through our times of trouble."
-Sherwin Nuland, MD, FACS, clinical professor of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine; author, How We Die