Finding Joy: A Practical Spiritual Guide to Happiness
Searching for happiness in our modern world of stress and struggle is common; finding it is more unusual. This guide explores and explains how to find joy through a time-honored, creative—and surprisingly practical—approach based on Kabbalah and the teachings of Jewish mystics.
The very core of the Jewish mystical tradition is centered on the belief that if our focus is spiritual, then true appreciation of our lives, and true joy, are possible. Step by step, Finding Joy describes the basis of happiness in the context of Jewish mystical tradition and shows, in an easy-to-understand way, how we can use its concept of the 10 divine "rays of light," the Sefirot, to remedy the everyday unhappiness in our lives.
Clear, creative, personal and down-to-earth, Finding Joy introduces the ancient insights of the Jewish mystics, and offers practical week-by-week exercises for the soul which bring them into our daily routines. Finding Joy is not an instant cure for modern life's burdens. Instead, it’s a guide to a time-honored method for thinking and living ... and finding real joy.
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Book details
- Author
- Dannel Schwartz
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism › Kabbalah & Mysticism
Religion › Judaism - Topics
- Kabbalah · Jewish mysticism · spirituality · Sefirot · Jewish spiritual practice · self-help
- ISBN-13
- 9781580230094 (Paperback)9781683360605 (Hardcover)
About the author
DANNEL I. SCHWARTZ was the founding rabbi of Temple Shir Shalom in West Bloomfield, Michigan, which he established in 1988 and grew to over 900 families. He was the author of Finding Joy: A Practical Spiritual Guide to Happiness and On the Wings of Healing, a hospital prayer book used in more than 200 leading hospitals in North America.
Schwartz received his doctoral degree from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1997. He served as President of the Michigan Board of Rabbis and Vice President of the North American Board of Rabbis, and previously held the position of Senior Rabbi at Temple Beth El in Birmingham, Michigan.
Schwartz began his rabbinic career in 1972 and served as a certified chaplain on the staff of Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. Finding Joy was translated into German and Hebrew.