Restful Reflections: Nighttime Inspiration to Calm the Soul, Based on Jewish Wisdom
At day's end, quiet your mind and unburden your heart.
These peaceful reflections offer wisdom to "sleep on." For each night of the year, an inspiring quote from a Jewish source and a personal reflection on it from an insightful spiritual leader help you to focus on your spiritual life and the lessons your day has offered.
Contributors include:
Yosef I. Abramowitz • Bradley Shavit Artson • Leila Gal Berner • Jonathan Jaffe Bernhard • Tsvi Blanchard • Barry H. Block • Terry A. Bookman • Herbert Bronstein • Ayelet Cohen • Jerome K. Davidson • Avram Davis • Lavey Derby • Malka Drucker • Amy Eilberg • Edward Feinstein • Yehudah Fine • Mordecai Finley • James A. Gibson • Melvin J. Glazer • James Scott Glazier • Edwin C. Goldberg • Elyse Goldstein • James Stone Goodman • Irving Greenberg • Daniel Gropper • Judith HaLevy • Brad Hirschfield • Elana Kanter • Stuart Kelman • Francine Klagsbrun • Peter S. Knobel • Jeffrey Korbman • Jonathan Kraus • Irwin Kula • Neil Kurshan • Mark H. Levin • Levi Meier • Steven Heneson Moskowitz • David Nelson • Vanessa L. Ochs • Nessa Rapoport • Jack Riemer • Jeffrey Salkin • Nigel Savage • Ismar Schorsch • Harold M. Schulweis • Rami Shapiro • Rick Sherwin • Jeffrey Sirkman • Marcia Cohn Spiegel • Liza Stern • Michael Strassfeld • Michael White • Arnold Jacob Wolf • Joel H. Zaiman • Josh Zweiback • Raymond A. Zwerin
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Book details
- Author
- Lori Forman-Jacobi
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism
- Topics
- nightly devotions · spiritual reflection · Judaism · mindfulness and meditation · Torah and Talmud · prayer · soul care
- ISBN-13
- 9781580230919 (Paperback)9781683362654 (Hardcover)
About the author
LORI FORMAN–JACOBI is a rabbi and Jewish educator ordained by The Jewish Theological Seminary in 1988, a member of the first rabbinical school class to include women. Her recent books include Sacred Intentions: Morning Inspiration to Strengthen the Spirit, Based on Jewish Wisdom and Restful Reflections: Nighttime Inspiration to Calm the Soul, Based on Jewish Wisdom, both co-authored with Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky.
Forman–Jacobi served as director of The Jewish Resource Center of UJA-Federation of New York and holds an affiliation with the Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning.
When she’s not writing, Forman–Jacobi works in Jewish education with adults and children and in interreligious affairs. These commitments inform the Jewish wisdom at the heart of her books.
Lori lives in Teaneck.