This wise and helpful guide explores
the nature of personal suffering and
brokenness and the potential for
personal crisis as a source of strength
and renewal instead of despair and
death. Examining the personal journeys of biblical and historical figures
such as Moses, Maimonides, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Buber—as well
as the author’s own personal experience with despair—it looks at brokenness
as an inescapable element of the human condition. It traces the path of suffering
from despair to depression to desperation to the turning point—healing—
when first-hand knowledge of suffering can be transformed into blessing.
“A deft blend of the personal and the
theological, a book to lift souls and
even to save lives.â€
—Rabbi Harold Kushner,
author, When Bad Things
Happen to Good People
“Wisdom of the heart and of the head….
A book for those who struggle with
depression, and for those who live
with those who struggle with depression.
In short, for many, many of us.â€
—Rabbi Joseph Telushkin,
author, A Code of Jewish
Ethics and Jewish Literacy |
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