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Title: To Begin Again: The Journey Toward Comfort, Strength, and Faith in Difficult Times by Naomi Levy ISBN: 0-345-41383-0 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 31 August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.91 (33 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Says there aren't always answers but there is always hope
Comment: Going beyond books with glib answers and easy how-to formulas for handling life's deepest and most painful losses, the author of this book has the honesty to acknowledge that grief is often very personal, mysterious and not easily resolved. What's more, the author seems to be saying, sometimes there is value in simply listening to grief and learning from it. I don't mean to imply that Levy always has a "wait and see" approach to grief, however. As a former rabbi for a Conservative congregation on the West Coast, her advice is solidly grounded in Jewish values and each section ends with a heartfelt prayer, lending perspective to her words. She also gives numberous examples of how individuals handled the most difficult losses one can face, from seeing family perish in the Holocaust to losing a child or spouse. This is an inspirational, warm and very engaging book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Inspiring. Encouraging. Optimistic.
Comment: In this very personal book Rabbi Levy takes us through her own very personal story of loss so that we may ourselves recover from the death of a loved one. As a young teenager she lost her father and in this work of nonfiction she takes us through her struggle with G-d (HaShem), with helping her mother, and with living the rest of her life without her dad. We are able, as readers, to bond with the author as she takes us through her life from teenager to young adult and then through college. We experience the transformation of Rabbi Levy through rabbinical school to her obtaining a pulpit of her own in a congregation full of daily and weekly worshipers. Each chapter of this inspiring book finishes itself with a wonderful peaceful serene meditation that leaves the reader feeling just wonderfully at peace and without grief. This book was recommended to me by my therapist. I was hesitant to read it at first because it was written by a female Rabbi. I did not feel that I would have anything to gain from the female perspective. Then I had to stop and think. I am grieving over the loss of my dear beloved wife who died too young at the age of 47 from brain cancer. She is up there in heaven whacking me on the side of the head if I don't change my "Archie Bunker" ideas and read the book. Well, I did. It proved to be a defining decision in my road to recovery from grief. This book is one of two that I read and, along with individual and group therapy that helped me overcome the 2.5 year nursing home ordeal of brain cancer, that finally culminated in death. It does not matter whether you are Jewish or not, whether you are male or female, buy this book if someone you love has died, it will help you.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Gift
Comment: If I had a wish it would be to talk to Rabbi Levy. What a wonderful source of wisdom she is. I usually speed read books but this one I purchased after the prayer book and it has been rabbit eared, underlined, and had many tears spilled on it's pages. My story is a series of bad things over the last ten years and I've turned to many books and people for guidance. Now I realize God is there and he is there in this book. This book helped me believe again. She also said something that helped me explain myself to my family. I read all the time. Especially spiritual books; She talks about how studying and reading can be God's way of talking to you. This book is an example of that through Rabbi Levy. I admire her for her strength to become a Rabbi. I always wish my church would let women be Priests so I understand her prayers to be able to become a Rabbi. Anyone going through any kind of difficult time could benefit from this book. Her own experience, when you look at her smiling picture in the back of the book, you cannot believe her father was murdered. I guess it is true that great sorrow often gives way to great wisdom. This one will stay by my bed with my rosary.
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Title: Talking to God: Personal Prayers for Times of Joy, Sadness, Struggle, and Celebration by Naomi Levy ISBN: 0375409823 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Making Loss Matter : Creating Meaning in Difficult Times by David J. Wolpe, Mitch Albom ISBN: 1573228206 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 08 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Seven Prayers That Can Change Your Life by Leonard, Phd Felder, Leonard Felder ISBN: 0740718959 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Book of Life: Embracing Judaism As a Spiritual Practice by Michael Strassfeld ISBN: 0805241248 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 13 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Jewish Insights on Death and Mourning by Jack Riemer, Sherwin B. Nuland ISBN: 0815607334 Publisher: Syracuse University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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