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Our lives as Torah : finding God in our own stories / Carol Ochs ; foreword by Lawrence Kushner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ochs, Carol.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spiritual life--Judaism.
- Jewish way of life.
- Jewish way of life--Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this powerful book, Carol Ochs shows us how to develop a personal theology by examining our life stories, learning to recognize God at work in them, and bringing them into conversation with Torah. Using timeless biblical texts as lenses to see the present, she helps us understand who we are and who God is for us by exploring the tightly interwoven basic elements of our lives--our love, suffering, work, bodies, prayer, community, and experiences of death. Through the process of seeing our experiences in relation to Biblical stories, we begin to recognize our lives as part of the ongoing st
- Contents:
- Searching for meaning
- Forming our story
- Committing to love
- Enduring suffering
- Undertaking our work
- Claiming our body
- Engaging in prayer
- Living in community
- Confronting death
- Encountering God.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-215) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610350704
- 9781280350702
- 1280350709
- 9780470244982
- 0470244984
- 9780787958534
- 0787958530
- OCLC:
- 70746917
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