The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook: A Guide to Understanding, Exploring & Living a Spiritual Life
What is "Jewish Spirituality"? How do I make it part of my life? Today's foremost spiritual leaders share their ideas and experience.
Whether you are just curious, intently searching for greater personal meaning, or actively seeking ideas, information, practices and inspiration to enrich your spiritual life, The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook is the ideal companion for your journey as it explores:
- Awakening the Possibilities: What Is Jewish Spirituality?
- The Worlds of Your Life: Where Is Spirituality Found?
- The Times and Seasons of Your Life: When Does Spirituality Enter?
- Swords and Plowshares: How to Forge the Tools that Will Make It Happen
- So What Do You Do With It? Why Spirituality Should Be Part of Your Life
Fifty of our foremost spiritual leaders invite you to explore every aspect of Jewish spirituality—God, community, prayer, liturgy, healing, meditation, mysticism, study, Jewish traditions, rituals, blessings, life passages, special days, the everyday, repairing the world and more—offering, in one place, everything you need to discover all the directions that Jewish spirituality can go and can take you.
The royalties from The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook are donated by the contributors and publisher to America’s Jewish seminaries.
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Book details
- Edited by
- Stuart M. Matlins, Isa Aron, Miriam Carey
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 454
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism
- Topics
- Jewish spirituality · Judaism · spiritual practices · prayer · meditation · Jewish traditions · Jewish holidays
- ISBN-13
- 9781580230933 (Paperback)9781683363910 (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.