Climbing Jacob's Ladder
Subtitle: One Man's Rediscovery of a Jewish Spiritual Tradition
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Broadway
Published: March 12, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780767906456
Subjects: Spiritual life; Self-actualization (Psychology; Religion; Religion - Judaism; Spirituality - General; Self-actualization (Psychology); Judaism - Orthodox; Religion / Spirituality; Jewish ethics; Judaism; Religious aspects
First sentence: The streets of New York streamed with people, and the stairs to the subway were like a giant drain sucking up the wash of a human rainstorm.
Description: In the face of personal crisis, the author turned to his Jewish heritage for guidance. In his reading he happened upon a Jewish spiritual tradition called Mussar. Gradually he realized that he had stumbled upon an insightful discipline for self-development, complete with meditative, contemplative, and other well-developed transformative practices designed to penetrate the deepest roots of the inner life.