Product Description: The Holocaust marks a decisive moment in modern suffering in which it becomes almost impossible to find meaning or redemption in the experience. In this study, C. Fred Alford offers a new and thoughtful examination of the experience of suffering...read more

Product Description: It is easy to believe God has abandoned us. In atrocities from Hitler's Germany to today's Darfur, the meek and the poor are left to fend for themselves. In the United States, we are menaced by violent terrorists who claim to act in God's name...read more

Product Description: The suffering that brings you to despair and even desperation can―with healing―become a source of hope, purpose and blessing. Are you: Feeling anxious? Feeling depressed because of the loss of health, a relationship or a job? Grieving the loss of a loved one? Grieving loss by a suicide? Feeling hopeless? Concerned about a friend who has suicidal thoughts? This wise and helpful guide explores the nature of personal suffering and brokenness and the potential for personal crisis as a source of strength and renewal instead of despair and death...read more

Product Description: Noted Kabbalah teacher and author Yehuda Berg takes on the difficult subject of emotional pain in this latest entry in the popular Technology for the Soul series. Kabbalah teaches that there is a war constantly being waged between the Light and the Opponent, both in the world at large and within ourselves...read more

Product Description: The Lord is Righteous in All His Ways is Rabbi Soloveitchik's answers to many questions relating to this most important day in the Jewish calendar. What is the role of Tishah be-Av at the beginning of the twenty-first century, close to two thousand years after the destruction of the second Temple? What is the halakhic character of Tishah be-Av? What themes in the Kinot (liturgical poetry) recited on that day resonate in modern times? How should the Jew respond to personal and national catastrophe? What is the relationship between the Holocaust and Tishah be-Av?For more than a decade Rabbi Soloveitchik spent virtually the entire day of Tishah be-Av expounding upon its major themes and reading and closely analyzing the Kinot, drawing upon on a whole range of sources including the Bible, rabbinic literature (Talmud and Midrash), medieval halakhic and philosophical works, Hebrew poetry, and Jewish history...read more

Product Description: Rabbi Soloveitchik's unique and widely influential approach to theodicy is that in the face of catastrophe and misfortune, we cannot ask why, since that question is unanswerable. Instead we must ask how we can grow and individuals and as a community...read more

A rabbi and author of God at the Edge describes the various kinds of despair present in human life and explains how to survive the feelings of being lost and alone to emerge wiser and stronger, drawing on the examples of such biblical figures as Cain, Samson, and others to reveal the eight stages of despair and the journey toward hope. 10,000 first printing.

In a diverse and innovative selection of new essays by cutting-edge theologians and philosophers, Suffering Religion examines one of the most primitive but challenging questions to define human experience - why do we suffer? As a theme uniting very different religious and cultural traditions, the problem of suffering addresses issues of passivity, the vulnerability of embodiment, the generosity of love and the complexity of gendered desire. Interdisciplinary studies bring different kinds of interpretations to meet and enrich each other. Can the notion of goodness retain meaning in the face of real affliction, or is pain itself in conflict with meaning?Themes covered include:*philosophy's own failure to treat suffering seriously, with special reference to the Jewish tradition*Martin Buber's celebrated interpretations of scriptural suffering*suffering in Kristevan psychoanalysis, focusing on the Christian theology of the cross*the pain of childbirth in a home setting as a religiously significant choice*Gods primal suffering in the kabbalistic tradition*Incarnation as a gracious willingness to suffer.

Product Description: In these troubled times, people are asking very difficult questions about God and their faith: If I suffer, does that mean I deserve it? Why do innocent people, especially children, die tragically? How can God be so cruel? Does God ever intervene during times of trouble? Who really runs the world-God or man? Do my prayers do any good? Why does God allow sickness, torture and evil to exist? Benjamin Blech admits, the answers are not simple...read more

Product Description: The greatest gift one can give a person tormented by a life-threatening disease or intractable pain is the knowledge that his or her suffering is not meaningless nor does it occur by chance. The late Rabbi Yitzchok Kirzner, the world-renowned teacher and lecturer, confronted this dilemma during his own illness...read more

Product Description: Drawing on multiple interconnected scriptural and spiritual sources, the Jewish tradition of ethical reflection is intricate and nuanced. This book presents scholarly Jewish perspectives on suffering, healing, life, and death, and it compares them with contemporary Christian and secular views...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explaining how to provide comfort and healing in times of grief, illness, and other suffering, a guide draws on the spiritual traditions of Judaism to provide healing rituals, prayers, psalms, and other text to help readers discover their personal path toward healing and wholeness. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: One of the classics of modern Jewish thought, Kol Dodi Dofek is now translated in English and titled Fate and Destiny: From the Holocaust to the State of Israel. Rabbi Soloveitchik presents an extended theological meditation on the Holocaust and the rise of the State of Israel, a profound examination of the Jewish covenant of faith and the covenant of fate and destiny which links all Jews, religious, irreligious and non-religious...read more

A rabbi who lost his home and all his possessions in a wildfire candidly shares the feeling of anxiety, grief, and anger spurred by the event, and his subsequent crisis of faith, offering readers practical advice on how to cope with the spiritual questions raised by tragedy. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. Tour.

Drawing on his own experience of losing everything he owned in a wildfire, a rabbi reflects on the challenge of coping with tragedy

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Drawing on his own loss of everything he owned in a wildfire, a rabbi reflects on the challenge of coping with tragedy, exploring the spiritual questions tragedy provokes and the lessons of caring, joy, and meaning it can teach us.