
Increasing Wholeness: Jewish Wisdom and Guided Meditations to Strengthen and Calm Body, Heart, Mind and Spirit
Balance and integrate the components of your inner life in order to become more present, joyful and effective.
"At our best, we may experience a taste of completeness infused with gratitude that prompts expressions of compassion and justice. At our best we are most alive: loving those around us and transcending our own personal needs, attuned to a caring, dynamic Presence intertwined with the whole of creation. The goal of this book is to enable you to live more frequently at your best."
—from the Introduction
In a multitasking culture, we often are distracted from attending to what is most significant in our lives. Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz, a widely respected teacher and spiritual guide, shows how to nurture the four components of the inner life—body, heart, mind and spirit—in order to embrace your whole self. Rabbi Spitz brings timeless wisdom into the modern age, combining Jewish texts and traditions with contemporary psychology and world spiritual writings.
This book is for everyone—Jews and non-Jews, experienced meditators and novices—yearning for greater inner calm and strength so as to more fully enjoy life, effectively relate to others and enhance spiritual awareness and connection.
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Book details
- Author
- Elie Kaplan Spitz
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism
Self-Help › Meditations - Topics
- Judaism · Jewish spirituality · mindfulness · inner life · self-improvement · body and mind
- ISBN-13
- 9781580238236 (Paperback)9781683361282 (Hardcover)
About the author
RABBI ELIE KAPLAN SPITZ is Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation B'nai Israel in Tustin, California, having served there as senior rabbi for over 33 years. His books include Increasing Wholeness: Jewish Wisdom and Guided Meditations to Strengthen and Calm Body, Heart, Mind and Spirit, Healing from Despair: Choosing Wholeness in a Broken World, and Does the Soul Survive?: A Jewish Journey to Belief in Afterlife, Past Lives & Living with Purpose.
Spitz holds degrees from The Jewish Theological Seminary and Boston University School of Law. He served on the Rabbinical Assembly Committee of Law and Standards from 1994 to 2004 and again from 2008 to 2016, and as a Global Justice Fellow for the American Jewish World Service from 2016 to 2017.
When not writing, Spitz teaches the philosophy of Jewish law at the University of Judaism. His work centers on spirituality and Judaism.
