Daily Twelve Step Recovery Affirmations, Exercises for Personal Growth & Renewal Reflecting Seasons of the Jewish Year
Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky
Foreword by Rabbi Neil Gillman
This book is not just for Jewish people.
It is for all people who would gain strength to heal and
insight
from the Jewish tradition.
Using a one-day-at-a-time monthly format,
a spiritual leader who continues to reach out to addicted
people, and all those seeking spiritual renewal, reflects on
the rhythm of the Jewish calendar with recovering people and
other teachers. Together they bring insight to recovery from
addictions and compulsive behaviors of all kinds. This
sensitive volume soars with the spirit of the Jewish soul and
year. Its “exercises” help us move from thinking to doing.
“A double blessing.... Linking the
daily renewal of the Twelve Step program with the rhythmic
cadences and thematic content of the Jewish calendar is a
stroke of genius.”
—
Laurence J. O’Connell, PhD, STD, President & CEO,
The Park Ridge Center
for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics
“Your quotations are extremely
powerful and your commentary meaningful…. One of the most
moving documents I have ever read.”
—Dr.
David Ellenson, professor of
religious thought, HUC–JIR, Los Angeles
“I love the format…and the way
you have tied recovery principles to use on a day-to-day
basis.”
—Harriet
Rosetto, director, Gateways
Beit T’shuvah
“I do believe that you have indeed
captured the nuances of the month.”
—Rabbi
Ron Issacs, Temple Sholom,
Bridgewater, NJ
“Fascinating and enjoyable to
read…rather thought-provoking.”
—Dr.
Robert W. Deutsch, Private
Interventions for Public People
“Will undoubtedly help addictive
Jews more comfortably avail themselves of the most effective
means of controlling such compulsive behavior—the 12-step
program, initially developed by Alcoholics
Anonymous.”
—Bernard
Reisman, Klutznick Professor of
Contemporary Jewish Studies, Brandeis University
“A wealth of spiritual and
motivational material in an excellent and useful
format.”
—Dr.
Moses Pfefferman, chair,
UJA/Federation Task Force on Addictions
