Midrash & Medicine: Healing Body and Soul in the Jewish Interpretive Tradition
352Midrash & Medicine: Healing Body and Soul in the Jewish Interpretive Tradition
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Overview
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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781580234849 |
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Publisher: | Turner Publishing Company |
Publication date: | 10/01/2011 |
Pages: | 352 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
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 Universityof Southern California.
Table of Contents
Preface Michele F. Prince ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction xix
1 Metaphors and Side Effects
L'Mashal: Metaphor and Meaning in Illness Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub 3
From Heaven to Hypochondria: Metaphors of Jewish Healing Stuart Schoffman 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 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 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 85
A Physician's Response to the Midrashic Invitation Ronald M. Andiman 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 107
The Experience of Suffering: A Response to Ruhama Weiss Rabbi Aryeb Cohen 129
6 Midrashic Renderings of Age and Obligation
After the Life Cycle: The Moral Challenges of Later Life Thomas R. Cole 137
The Journey of Later Life: Moses as Our Guide Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman 160
7 Narrative and Loss
Words in the Dark: A Personal Journey Eitan Fishbane 177
Reflections on the Dark Linda Raphael 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 211
Midrashic Thinking: An Appreciation and a Caution Rabbi Lewis M. Barth 234
9 The Narrative Turn in Jewish Bioethics
Aggadah and Midrash: A New Direction for Bioethics? Rabbi Leonard A. Sharzer 245
Jewish Bioethics: Between Interpretation and Criticism Jonathan Cohen 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 281
Notes 293
Credits 315