Moses—The Prince, The Prophet: His Life, Legend & Message for Our Lives
How can the struggles of a great biblical figure help you
to improve your life today?
To help us cope with the burdens of our own “Egypts,” author Levi Meier brings to life the struggles, failures, and triumphs that reveal the human side of Moses, a central figure in Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions. Engaging, empowering and insightful, Moses—The Prince, the Prophet shows how personal struggle and perseverance create a foundation for liberation and change while teaching us about ourselves—our role in life, our struggles and our relationship with God.
More than a biography, Moses—The Prince, the Prophet is a personal guide to growth for each of us. It explores a life intertwined with the story of a people—from the Israelite Exodus from Egypt and the birth of a new nation, to the Divine revelation at Mount Sinai.
Author Levi Meier—chaplain, clinical psychologist, and rabbi—knows how people struggle for healing and meaning in their lives. He brings the drama of these events from biblical history into today to show the very human side of Moses—a person who, like ourselves, experienced self-doubt, fear, suffering, failure and success.
Through examining Moses’s experiences and the common threads they share with ours, we are taught lessons for our lives. Drawing on the stories in the Book of Exodus, midrash (finding contemporary meaning from ancient Jewish texts), the teachings of Jewish mystics, modern texts and psychotherapy, Meier offers new ways to create our own path to self-knowledge, self-fulfillment and self-actualization—and face life’s difficulties head-on.
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Book details
- Author
- Levi Meier
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism
- Topics
- Jewish theology · Israelite Exodus · midrash · biblical biography · self-actualization · personal growth · Judaism
- ISBN-13
- 9781580230698 (Paperback)9781683362012 (Hardcover)
About the author
RABBI LEVI MEIER, PhD served as Jewish chaplain of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for more than 29 years beginning in 1978, combining pastoral counseling with medical ethics. His books include Ancient Secrets: Using the Stories of the Bible to Improve Our Everyday Lives and Moses—The Prince, The Prophet: His Life, Legend & Message for Our Lives.
Meier received rabbinical ordination from Yeshiva University of New York and completed his PhD in psychology at the University of Southern California. He maintained a private practice as a clinical psychologist and served as Special Issues Editor of the Journal of Psychology and Judaism.
Born in New York in 1946, Meier was a rabbi, clinical psychologist, and author based in Los Angeles. He died on July 13, 2008, at age 62.