Sharing the strength to overcome life's tragedies

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	• To Begin Again: The Journey Toward Comfort, Strength, and Faith in Difficult Times Naomi Levy Knopf, 1998 - 267 pages average customer review:based on 33 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A beautiful, fundamental book.

Rabbi Levi's book is written with simplicity, understanding and intelligence. Her profound love of God appears in each page. It is a open source of wisdom that any spiritual wonderer should read with joy.

Wonderful storyteller

Rabbi Levey has a wonderful way of storytelling. She uses real examples from her congregation and her own life. Her description of "moving day" will have you laughing out loud. Her description of a mother looking over her dying child will have you in tears. I am not Jewish but her descriptions of Jewish traditions and ceremonies were beautiful. It was a book that I hated to see come to an end. I learned 3 things:

1. Religiuos leaders have just as many questions about GOD as everyone else. 2. We need each other. 3. We are never alone - God speaks to us in many ways, we just have to listen.

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A most inspiring book on hope and faith.

For someone so young in years her insightfulness is profound, her compassion heart warming and her prayers inspirational. What a book! What's next Rabbi Levy?

Sharing the strength to overcome life's tragedies

How do you continue after experiencing a painful loss? How do you overcome being a survivor in order to become a participant. How does a rabbi answer a congregant who ask the value of believing and praying when tragedy occurs? Rabbi Naomi Levy, who served Congregation Mishkon Tephilo in Venice California has known grief, and has written this book to help people overcome tragedy. It is must reading for anyone who has experienced loss, is considering rabbinical school or is planning to work in the Jewish counseling. Rabbi Levy is one of the first female graduates of JTS' rabbinical school. The book is filled with stories of loss and recovery, and applicable prayers and quotes from Jewish texts. The first chapter opens with the kidnapping, robbery and rape of a congregant while on her way to Kol Nidre services. In later chapters we meet a congregant who loses all physical connection to her past when a fire destroys her family's home (except for a single unmelted mezuzah), another who suffers a stillbirth, and others who suffer illnesses, addictions, and other losses. Rabbi Levy had her own losses to overcome, too. At age fifteen, her father was brutally, senselessly murdered by a mugger, leaving a devastated family and destroying Naomi's faith in the police, doctors, people and god. Naomi became a pessimist overnight, and understood the Talmudic quote that 'to destroy a single life is to destroy the world.' Yet, she was able to slowly overcome this loss. The book is not going to cure the reader overnight, but it will set you on the right path and give you or your friends hope.

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Every family member will have a copy

This was such an inspirational book. I am going through a painful separation and needed someone to help me move ahead. Every chapter ends w/ a prayer related to that topic. Written by one of the first female Jewish Rabbis, don't let that stop you. As a Christian I found the book to be extremely inspirational but not overwhelmingly religious. I'll be buying everyone on the Christmas list a copy of their own.

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