The Jewish Book of Grief and Healing: A Spiritual Companion for Mourning
Beloved and respected spiritual leaders from across the Jewish denominational spectrum share insights from their experiences, Jewish tradition and their personal encounters with grief and healing. This wide range of perspectives, offered with grace and compassion, will be a treasured resource in your time of grief. Whether mourning a recent loss or experiencing pain from old scars, you will be encouraged and challenged to be fully, vulnerably present to your emotions; forgive your own shortcomings and those of others; and remain open to love despite pain and uncertainty.
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Book details
- Author
- Stuart Matlins
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism › Rituals & Practice
Self-Help › Death, Grief, Bereavement - Topics
- grief and mourning · Jewish spirituality · healing after loss · bereavement · Jewish tradition · forgiveness · emotional healing
- ISBN-13
- 9781580238526 (Paperback)9781683363842 (Hardcover)
About the author
STUART M. MATLINS is founder, editor-in-chief, and publisher of Jewish Lights Publishing and SkyLight Paths Publishing, with both imprints focusing on religion and spirituality from a broad, non-denominational perspective. His books include How to Be a Perfect Stranger: The Essential Religious Etiquette Handbook, The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook: A Guide to Understanding, Exploring & Living a Spiritual Life, and The Perfect Stranger’s Guide to Funerals and Grieving Practices: A Guide to Etiquette in Other People’s Religious Ceremonies.
Matlins received the Abraham Geiger Medal in 2014, recognizing outstanding service to religious pluralism, and the American Jewish Distinguished Service Award from Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in 2006. He is listed in Who’s Who in America.
Matlins served as a management consultant for over thirty years as a managing partner with Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., and subsequently headed his own consulting firm. He has served for over twenty years on the Board of Governors of Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion.
Stuart lives in Woodstock, Vermont, with his wife, Antoinette Matlins.