Finding Spiritual Strength in Pain or Illness (12 pk)
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Book details
- Author
- LifeLights
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Miscellaneous print
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism
- Topics
- pain and illness · Jewish pastoral care · healing and wholeness · emotional wellbeing · Judaism · grief and suffering
- ISBN-13
- 9781683365983
About the author
RABBI SIMKHA Y. WEINTRAUB, LCSW, is a Conservative rabbi and licensed clinical social worker who served for more than 25 years as Rabbinic Director of the New York Jewish Healing Center and the National Center for Jewish Healing. His books include Guide Me Along the Way: A Jewish Spiritual Companion for Surgery, Finding Spiritual Strength in Pain or Illness, and Healing of Soul, Healing of Body: Spiritual Leaders Unfold the Strength and Solace in Psalms.
Weintraub served for nearly 15 years as an Adjunct Lecturer in Pastoral Skills at the Jewish Theological Seminary, teaching courses in loss and bereavement, Jewish spiritual counseling, and behavioral health.
When not writing, Weintraub has drawn on his dual training as rabbi and clinical social worker to write and teach about Jewish spiritual resources in confronting illness, loss, and trauma. Much of his work explores the intersection of Jewish tradition and healing.