The Jewish Journaling Book: How to Use Jewish Tradition to Write Your Life & Explore Your Soul
Explore your experiences, relationships, and feelings through this guided tour of
journal-keeping in Jewish tradition.
Journaling has been, and remains, an inherently Jewish activity. From the Kabbalist mystics who recorded their practices of reaching altered states of consciousness, to the more recent journals of those who lived during the Holocaust, to the spiritual precedent for Jewish journal-keeping at holy times of the year, writing, recording, and reflecting have long been a part of Jewish custom.
Janet Ruth Falon delves into the practical aspects of keeping a journal as well as how you can use your journal to nurture Jewish values and concerns. Using examples from her own writing, she demonstrates how journaling can unleash your creativity and reveal aspects of yourself that you may not have thought about before. She also includes 52 journaling tools that teach specific techniques to help you create and maintain a vital, living journal, from a Jewish perspective.
Inspiring and practical, this guided tour of journaling shows how yours can be used to better understand yourself and the world.
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Book details
- Author
- Janet Ruth Falon
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism
- Topics
- Judaism · Kabbalah · spiritual writing · self-reflection · Jewish customs · Holocaust journals
- ISBN-13
- 9781580232036
About the author
JANET RUTH FALON is a journalist, essayist, poet, and teacher who has taught journaling and creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania for more than two decades. She is the author of The Jewish Journaling Book.
Falon’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Christian Science Monitor. She holds an MLA and is a former newspaper reporter and magazine editor. One of her projects for WHYY-TV received a local Emmy Award.
When she’s not writing, Falon has worked with students, staff, cancer-support groups, and continuing-care facilities through her teaching practice at the University of Pennsylvania.
Janet lives in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.