Bøker av Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky

An introduction to both the basics and complexities of Judaism and Jewish life through the lens of interfaith relationship. Addresses topics that will encourage understanding and stimulate discussion between you and your Jewish partner, relative or friend.

Using a one-day-at-a-time monthly format, a spiritual leader who continues to reach out to addicted people, and all those seeking spiritual renewal, reflects on the rhythm of the Jewish calendar with recovering people and other teachers.

An interfaith couple will have to confront tough questions, yet sometimes family, friends, clergy or counselors are unable or unwilling to help. From a Jewish perspective, this book offers support and guidance for all stages of an interfaith relationship.

Wake up to the divine abundance that is all around you! This inspirational companion helps you recognize God's gifts in the everyday world around you. For each day of the year, an inspiring quote from a Jewish source and a personal reflection on it help you focus on your spiritual life and all the things you have to be grateful for. Using both the secular and Jewish calendar as a framework, this daily devotional helps you honor the special and holy events of the year as well as identify the sacred in the mundane moments of your life. It draws on the wisdom of Jewish sources and teachings, and ancient and contemporary spiritual thinkers, to gain perspective on the abundance that is all around you-in your achievements and challenges, relationships and personal time, joy and suffering, job and home. It will help you elevate the ordinary to the extraordinary every day of the year.

Reflections on the traditional weekly Bible readings offer spiritual support for daily living and recovery from addictions of all kinds. For all people who want to gain strength to heal and insight from the Bible and the teachings of Jewish tradition.

Provides synagogue and communal leaders with a useful process and the ingredients necessary to consider important changes in the synagogue. Includes thoughtful new models for membership and synagogue finance; examples from successful synagogues, bolstered by illustrations from the private sector; and practical steps for implementing change.

With biblical and historical background, insight into contemporary practice and personal stories, this easy-to-understand guide explains nine rituals in Jewish spiritual practice and shows how they can deepen Christians'' understanding of their own faith.

Holy days and holidays speak deeply to the Jewish soul and animate Judaism''s culture. This easy-to-use guide explains the origins and customs of the major Jewish holidays and shows what they can mean to Christians seeking to understand their own faith.