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9780765760937

When Words Fail A Religious Response to Undeserved Hurt

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    9780765760937

  • ISBN10:

    0765760932

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-10-31
  • Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
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Author Biography

Rabbi Sholom Stern, is spiritual leader of Temple Beth El in Cedarhurst, NY.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Pastor in Judaism
1(8)
Speaking Authoritatively, but with a Compassionate Voice
1(5)
Chief Actor in the Healing Drama
6(3)
Give Me Friendship or Death
9(26)
Health and Human Companionship
10(3)
Guilt and Mourning
13(3)
Case Study of a Self-Indulgent Life
16(2)
Excommunication and Mourning
18(6)
Alone with God
24(4)
Sitting Shivah without Any Visitors
28(1)
Beyond the Destroyed Temple
29(2)
Life and Dialogue
31(4)
Enter the Comforter
35(32)
The Non-Professional in the Healing Process
36(1)
The Therapist as a Friend
37(5)
Silence, A Prelude to Venting Anger
42(2)
Does Job Express a Death Wish?
44(6)
Shattering of Eternal Verities
50(4)
Bittush---A Hasidic Approach to Recovery
54(6)
Never Letting Go of Guilt Feelings
60(5)
The Victim Interceding for Friends
65(2)
Listening
67(20)
Greatest Comfort, ``Be Quiet, Let Me Speak''
68(5)
Jacob's and Elkanah's Failures
73(3)
Everyman's Question---Is God Listening?
76(2)
The Lead Role without a Word
78(2)
The Handmaid Acting as Sarah's Mother
80(5)
Listening with the Third Ear
85(2)
When Silence Is Golden
87(20)
The Bible's Most Famous Silence
88(2)
Silence Speaking Louder Than Words
90(4)
When Knowing Too Much Induces Silence
94(6)
Highest Praise to God
100(1)
A Teacher's Silence
101(3)
The Loudest Noise in the World
104(3)
Give Me Your Hand: Reflections on Nonverbal Communication
107(24)
The Healing Touch
107(2)
Rabbi Johanan's Therapy
109(7)
Eyes and Nose --- The Silent Messengers
116(7)
Clothing and Nonverbal Communication
123(2)
Cain's Body Language
125(3)
Semichah --- Ordaining through Touch
128(3)
Responding to Tragedy
131(46)
Every Man Has His Breaking Point
132(5)
Asserting Power in a Powerless Setting
137(3)
God Favoring the Pursued
140(2)
The Weakness of Physical Power
142(5)
Feeling Superior through Laughter
147(3)
The Present Doesn't Determine the Future
150(2)
Parallel between Job and Zion
152(3)
The Most Perfect Thing --- A Broken Heart
155(5)
Job, The Man with No History
160(5)
Life --- A Pledge Returned to God
165(1)
Can Evil Be Good?
166(4)
Creative Illness
170(2)
The Holocaust --- Acquiring Special Credit
172(5)
Making Your Peace with God
177(36)
Where Is My Father?
178(3)
Metaneeds More Than Basic Needs
181(4)
I Know My Redeemer Lives
185(5)
Revealing Our Darker Side
190(2)
Depressioh and Distancing Ourselves from God
192(3)
Fighting Death, Asserting Life
195(3)
Our Humiliation and God's Tears
198(5)
Job's Healing without God's Answer
203(6)
Liberated from Prison of Self-Centeredness
209(4)
Concluding Thoughts 213(6)
Bibliography 219(10)
Index 229

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