From Illness to Exodus
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From Illness to Exodus

A Passover Meditation on Empathy, Health, and Healing

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eBook - ePub

From Illness to Exodus

A Passover Meditation on Empathy, Health, and Healing

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

  1. Title Page
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Note on Biblical Names and Traditional Jewish Sources
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1: We Could All Use a Seder
  7. Chapter 2: Searching for Hametz
  8. Chapter 3: Signposts
  9. Chapter 4: Sanctifying the Moment
  10. Chapter 5: Waldman on Washing, Part 1
  11. Chapter 6: Of Spring and Salt
  12. Chapter 7: Breaking Points
  13. Chapter 8: Poor Bread
  14. Chapter 9: So What Else Is New?
  15. Chapter 10: We Were Slaves
  16. Chapter 11: Insomniac Rabbis
  17. Chapter 12: Four Feelings
  18. Chapter 13: Where Shall I Begin?
  19. Chapter 14: From the Beginning
  20. Chapter 15: Promises that Stand the Test of Time
  21. Chapter 16: Go and Learn
  22. Chapter 17: An Aramean Told My Father to Get Lost
  23. Chapter 18: Brought Down to the Narrow Place
  24. Chapter 19: Wicked Wisdom
  25. Chapter 20: Broken Backs
  26. Chapter 21: Idioms of Distress
  27. Chapter 22: The Outstretched Arm of the Healer
  28. Chapter 23: A Missing Midrash
  29. Chapter 24: Blood in the Water
  30. Chapter 25: The Danger of Dayenu
  31. Chapter 26: The Pesah Sacrifice
  32. Chapter 27: Matzah (again?)
  33. Chapter 28: Biting Bitter Herbs
  34. Chapter 29: In Every Generation
  35. Chapter 30: A Happy Mother of Children
  36. Chapter 31: Taunting the Sea
  37. Chapter 32: Four Cups of Coffee
  38. Chapter 33: A Clean Break?
  39. Chapter 34: Breakable Bread
  40. Chapter 35: Soup’s On
  41. Chapter 36: The Missing Piece
  42. Chapter 37: Satisfaction
  43. Chapter 38: A Cup of Survival
  44. Chapter 39: Eliyahus, Every One
  45. Chapter 40: Neither In Your Name Nor Mine?
  46. Chapter 41: Nerves of Silver
  47. Chapter 42: How Can I Repay You for Disappointing Me?
  48. Chapter 43: Hesed Forever!
  49. Chapter 44: Psalm 118—The Narrow and the Wide
  50. Chapter 45: Hesed Forever—For Everyone?
  51. Chapter 46: Body and Soul and Spirit
  52. Chapter 47: A Cup of Kindness
  53. Chapter 48: Get Up and Do It Again
  54. Chapter 49: I Love to Count
  55. Chapter 50: The House of Hashem
  56. Chapter 51: Who Really Knows One?
  57. Chapter 52: Priceless at Any Price
  58. Appendix
  59. Bibliography