Midrash provides a revolutionary guide through the most difficult passages of our life stories.
This groundbreaking volume examines the spiritual shortfalls of our current healing environment and explores how midrash can help you see beyond the physical aspects of healing to tune in to your spiritual source.
Pushing the boundaries of Jewish knowledge, physicians, rabbis, social workers, psychologists and philosophers investigate the role of midrashic thinking in addressing seemingly intractable social and personal issues. Topics discussed include:
- How metaphors and parables can aid healing
- How Jewish tradition can inform and enrich health, hospice and nursing-home care
- New ways of reading Jewish texts in the discussion of medical ethics
- The role of community in addressing aging, loss and suffering.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Michele F. Prince, LCSW, MAJCS ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction xix
1 METAPHORS AND SIDE EFFECTS
L’Mashal: Metaphor and Meaning in Illness
Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub, LCSW 3
From Heaven to Hypochondria: Metaphors of Jewish Healing
Stuart Schoffman, MPhil 14
2 THE NARROW PLACE FROM WHICH HEALING COMES, AND THE EXPANSIVE EDGE OF THE CONTINENT
Surviving the Narrow Places: Judah and Joseph and the Journey to Wholeness
Rabbi Norman J. Cohen, Ph D 29
Widening the Boundaries
Rabbi Eric Weiss 43
3 LYRIC AND COMMUNITY
The Midrashic Impulse in Poems, Our Dialogue with Ecclesiastes, and Other Lyrical Interpretations
Rabbi William Cutter, Ph D 49
‚Psalms, Songs & Stories‘: Midrash and Music at the Jewish Home of San Francisco
Rabbi Sheldon Marder 68
4 GOD IN THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE: SOME MIDRASHIC ELABORATIONS
Talking to Physicians about Talking about God: A Midrashic Invitation
Rabbi William Cutter, Ph D 85
A Physician’s Response to the Midrashic Invitation
Ronald M. Andiman, MD 97
5 CONTEXTS OF SUFFERING, CONTEXTS OF HOPE
Neither Suffering nor Its Rewards: A Story about Intimacy and Dealing with Suffering and with Death
Ruhama Weiss, Ph D 107
The Experience of Suffering: A Response to Ruhama Weiss
Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, Ph D 129
6 MIDRASHIC RENDERINGS OF AGE AND OBLIGATION
After the Life Cycle: The Moral Challenges of Later Life
Thomas R. Cole, Ph D 137
The Journey of Later Life: Moses as Our Guide
Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman, MSW, MAJCS, BCC 160
7 NARRATIVE AND LOSS
Words in the Dark: A Personal Journey
Eitan Fishbane, Ph D 177
Reflections on the Dark
Linda Raphael, Ph D 205
8 THE DILEMMAS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY; THE HEALING RESPONSE OF MIDRASH
The Danger of Cure, the Value of Healing: Toward a Midrashic Way of Being
Philip Cushman, Ph D 211
Midrashic Thinking: An Appreciation and a Caution
Rabbi Lewis M. Barth, Ph D 234
9 THE NARRATIVE TURN IN JEWISH BIOETHICS
Aggadah and Midrash: A New Direction for Bioethics?
Rabbi Leonard A. Sharzer, MD 245
Jewish Bioethics: Between Interpretation and Criticism
Jonathan Cohen, Ph D 263
10 WHAT TAKES PLACE AND WHAT CAN BE CHANGED
A Midrash on the Mi Sheberakh: A Prayer for Persisting
Rabbi Julie Pelc Adler 277
The Human Body and the Body Politic
Rabbi Richard Address, DMin 281
Notes 293
Credits 315
Über den Autor
Michele F. Prince, LCSW, MAJCS, is executive director of OUR HOUSE Grief Support Center in Los Angeles. She is a steering committee member and former director of the Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health of Hebrew Union College. She is an oncology social worker affiliated with the Keck Medical Center of the University of Southern California.
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