
From Illness to Exodus
A Passover Meditation on Empathy, Health, and Healing
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About this book
Being sick, especially being chronically ill, can feel like being trapped in a narrow place, with no way out. Even professional healers can feel trapped, not knowing how to lift that person up. One of the oldest stories in the world, the exodus, is a tale of escaping that kind of trap. This book uses the story of the exodus to help understand illness and healing--the narrow space, and the way out. From Illness to Exodus asks hard questions about illness, loss, and suffering--questions that literally keep people up all night--using the traditional Passover seder and its text, the Haggadah, as a template. It invites the ill person and healer alike to address these questions with compassion, curiosity, and a mature faith that can handle the uncertainty of being human.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Biblical Names and Traditional Jewish Sources
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: We Could All Use a Seder
- Chapter 2: Searching for Hametz
- Chapter 3: Signposts
- Chapter 4: Sanctifying the Moment
- Chapter 5: Waldman on Washing, Part 1
- Chapter 6: Of Spring and Salt
- Chapter 7: Breaking Points
- Chapter 8: Poor Bread
- Chapter 9: So What Else Is New?
- Chapter 10: We Were Slaves
- Chapter 11: Insomniac Rabbis
- Chapter 12: Four Feelings
- Chapter 13: Where Shall I Begin?
- Chapter 14: From the Beginning
- Chapter 15: Promises that Stand the Test of Time
- Chapter 16: Go and Learn
- Chapter 17: An Aramean Told My Father to Get Lost
- Chapter 18: Brought Down to the Narrow Place
- Chapter 19: Wicked Wisdom
- Chapter 20: Broken Backs
- Chapter 21: Idioms of Distress
- Chapter 22: The Outstretched Arm of the Healer
- Chapter 23: A Missing Midrash
- Chapter 24: Blood in the Water
- Chapter 25: The Danger of Dayenu
- Chapter 26: The Pesah Sacrifice
- Chapter 27: Matzah (again?)
- Chapter 28: Biting Bitter Herbs
- Chapter 29: In Every Generation
- Chapter 30: A Happy Mother of Children
- Chapter 31: Taunting the Sea
- Chapter 32: Four Cups of Coffee
- Chapter 33: A Clean Break?
- Chapter 34: Breakable Bread
- Chapter 35: Soup’s On
- Chapter 36: The Missing Piece
- Chapter 37: Satisfaction
- Chapter 38: A Cup of Survival
- Chapter 39: Eliyahus, Every One
- Chapter 40: Neither In Your Name Nor Mine?
- Chapter 41: Nerves of Silver
- Chapter 42: How Can I Repay You for Disappointing Me?
- Chapter 43: Hesed Forever!
- Chapter 44: Psalm 118—The Narrow and the Wide
- Chapter 45: Hesed Forever—For Everyone?
- Chapter 46: Body and Soul and Spirit
- Chapter 47: A Cup of Kindness
- Chapter 48: Get Up and Do It Again
- Chapter 49: I Love to Count
- Chapter 50: The House of Hashem
- Chapter 51: Who Really Knows One?
- Chapter 52: Priceless at Any Price
- Appendix
- Bibliography