The Lord Is My Shepherd - Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm

Zusatztext “The author pours into [the book] everything a long life has taught him about this psalm! and all that this psalm has taught him about life. . . . It is a book worthy of attention from people of all faiths.” — The Dallas Morning News “This is a nurturing book that will bring comfort to those who are grieving and peace to those who are caught in the vise of constant fear.” — Spirituality & Health “Reaffirms [Rabbi Kushner’s] pre-eminent position among the religious teachers of the 21st century . . .This book is filled with just the right story! anecdote or illustration at just the right place.” — Jewish Media Review “One of Kushner’s strengths always has been his ability to empathize! to understand the pain of others on a personal level! and to share his gentle wisdom in an accessible manner. . . . Nearly as soothing as the psalm itself! Kushner’s words elucidate! reassure and encourage.” — The Plain Dealer Informationen zum Autor HAROLD S. KUSHNER was rabbi laureate of Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts, having long served that congregation. The author of more than a dozen books on coping with life’s challenges, he is best known as the author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People . He died in 2023. Klappentext The best-selling guide to the healing wisdom of the Twenty-Third Psalm! from the beloved author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People. Rabbi Harold Kushner has found that the simple! beautiful verses of perhaps the most memorable and cherished chapter of the Bible-full of honesty and optimism-have an almost magical power to comfort and calm-and to change your life. The psalm does not pretend that life is ever easy! but it offers a masterful guide to living in the world with faith and courage. Drawing on over forty years of his own thinking! on other biblical scholars! and on history! Kushner gracefully demonstrates how this sustaining work can help us cope with every aspect of life! from mundane jealousies to the death of a loved one to unimaginable tragedies of global proportions. Chapter One A Psalm of David Can fifteen beautiful lines from a single page of the Bible change your life? I believe they can, if you are willing to open your heart to their magic. Listen closely to them, read them with an open mind and an open heart, and you will find the answers to questions you are asking, questions about yourself, the people around you, and the world in which you and they live. I would guess that there is one, and only one, chapter of the Bible that most people in the English-speaking world know by heart. We may remember a lot of sto- ries about Adam and Eve, Noah, Joseph, and Moses. We may be able to recite the Ten Commandments, parts of the Sermon on the Mount, and other passages that have entered into our literature. But when it comes to an entire chapter, I suspect that the only one we remember completely is chapter twenty-three of the Book of Psalms, the Twenty-third Psalm, “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. . . .” Even if you cannot recite the entire psalm perfectly, you know it well enough to say it along with a congregation, the way many of us sing along with “The Star-Spangled Banner” at a baseball game. We are so familiar with the Twenty-third Psalm that when a new translation of the Bible comes along, using archaeological and linguistic evidence to help us understand more accurately what the original Hebrew and Greek meant to say, we are uncomfortable with the “improvements.” We welcome the rewording of the stories, stripped of the Elizabethan vocabulary of the four-hundred-year-old King James translation (done in the time of Shakespeare). We don’t miss the use of “begat” and “wouldst” and “thee” and “thou.” But when it comes to our favorite psalm, we crave familiarity more than accuracy. Why do we love th...

Product details

• Authors: Harold S Kushner, Harold S. Kushner
• Publisher: Anchor Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.08.2004
• EAN: 9781400033355
• ISBN: 978-1-4000-3335-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 202 mm x 14 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions