Mourning & mitzvah
Subtitle: a guided journal for walking the mourner's path through grief to healing : with over 60 guided exercises
By: Anne Brener
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Jewish Lights Pub.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Woodstock, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781580231138
Subjects: Grief; Consolation (Judaism); Jewish mourning customs; Faith Healing; Judaism
Other titles: Mourning and mitzvah
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface: My time to mourn; my time to dance; title: Timeline: the major phases of the Jewish year of mourning; title: Avelut (mourning): the mourner's path; title: Hesped (euology) and truthtelling: mourning as a process; title: Mekom hanekhama: finding a place of comfort; title: B'tzelim Elohim (in God's image): before covering the mirror; title: The shekhinah (God's presence) at the bedside: remembering the illness and the death; title: Aninut (from death to burial): suspended between two worlds; title: Shiva (first seven days of mourning): a community embrace; title: Keriah (tearing of cloth after hearing news of the death) and deep feelings: rending the garment to expose the heart; title: Keriah and kaddish (the mourner's prayer): keeping the conversation going to heal the hurt; title: Keriah and prayer: speaking out from distress of your soul; title: Immortality in Olam hazeh: living on in the world of the living; title: Olam haneshamot: immortality in the next world: a walk through the world of souls; title: Matzevah (monument or tombstone): the unveiling: raising the curtain on the rest of your life; title: Yizkor (memorial prayer), yahrzeit (anniversary of the death), and the cycle of seasons; title: Shalom: hello, goodbye, and peace.