Healing from Despair

by Spitz, Rabbi Elie Kaplan

• ISBN13: 9781580234368
• ISBN10: 1580234364
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-24
• Publisher: Jewish Lights Pub

Summary

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 resource 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. Examining the personal journeys of biblical and historical figures such as Moses, Maimonides, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Buber¿as well as the author¿s own personal experience with despair¿it looks at brokenness as an inescapable element of the human condition. It traces the path of suffering from despair to depression to desperation to the turning point¿healing¿when firsthand knowledge of suffering can be transformed into blessing. Whether you have encountered despair and depression personally¿through illness, loss, trauma or betrayal¿or you know someone who is struggling with brokenness, this book will provide an informative, safe and comforting look at the nature of despair and the ways you can overcome it.