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Deathbed Wisdom of the Hasidic Masters: The Book of Departure and Caring for People at the End of Life - Softcover

 
9781580238502: Deathbed Wisdom of the Hasidic Masters: The Book of Departure and Caring for People at the End of Life
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1580238505 ISBN 13: 9781580238502
Verlag: Jewish Lights, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Death is a time of life that holds meaning for the dying, their family and friends, their community―and us.

"Most of Torah's teaching is about how to live. But there is a special section within its wisdom that also speaks to us about how to die. Since we are all mortals, our lives fashioned somehow around the awareness that death is inevitably to come, this is one of the important lessons…. There is something profound to be learned about the way of dying, and it is best learned from the wisdom and stories of those who have gone before us."
―from the Foreword

Students of the Hasidic masters wrote down the stories of the last months, days, hours and moments of the lives of their rebbes. A compilation of their experiences, called The Book of Departure (Sefer haHistalkut), first published in Hebrew in 1930, brings together the rich end-of-life stories of forty-two holy men who died between 1760 and 1904, as well as their philosophical forebearer, Isaac Luria. Featuring new pastoral commentary in a unique facing-page format, this English presentation of heart-touching deathbed tales sheds light on Jewish traditions about death, the afterlife and how to care for people in their final days.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Rabbi Joel H Baron is a hospice chaplain at Hebrew SeniorLife (HSL) Hospice Care in Boston.



Rabbi Sara Paasche-Orlow is the director of Spiritual Care at Hebrew SeniorLife.



Arthur Green, PhD, is recognized as one of the world's preeminent authorities on Jewish thought and spirituality. He is the Irving Brudnick professor of philosophy and religion at Hebrew College and rector of the Rabbinical School, which he founded in 2004. Professor emeritus at Brandeis University, he also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where he served as dean and president.

Dr. Green is author of several books including Judaism's Ten Best Ideas: A Brief Guide for Seekers; Ehyeh: A Kabbalah for Tomorrow; Seek My Face: A Jewish Mystical Theology; Your Word Is Fire: The Hasidic Masters on Contemplative Prayer and Tormented Master: The Life and Spiritual Quest of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav (all Jewish Lights). He is also author of Radical Judaism (Yale University Press) and coauthor of Speaking Torah: Spiritual Teachings from around the Maggid's Table. He is long associated with the Havurah movement and a neo-Hasidic approach to Judaism.

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Verlag
Jewish Lights
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1580238505
ISBN 13 
9781580238502
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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