Spirituality and Health

"Jewish wisdom teaches that our yearnings generate life. Desire animates," writes Rabbi Irwin Kula, president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership and a much-sought-after speaker and commentator on culture and religion in the public square. He will be featured in a public television special in December 2006.

We aren't used to thinking about religion and yearning in tandem and yet it is desire that often draws us to God and to others. Our yearning is often stifled by our need for certainty and our fear of mystery; chaos frightens us and we freeze. Yet great truths can be discovered in the messes of life: "The ability to live with seeming contradictions — and the ambivalence and tension these contradictions create — is what gives rise to wisdom. The messes are the point."

...This sagacious book will be a blessing to all who read its teachings on the value of spiritual yearning.

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