A Heart of Wisdom
Making the Jewish Journey from Midlife through the Elder Years
1st Edition
Published on 13. September 2014
384 pages
978-1-58023-723-9 (ISBN)
Description
Shows us how to understand and meet the challenges of our own process of aging-and the aging of those we care about-from a Jewish perspective, from midlife through the elder years. Over 40 contributors offer their insights and experiences through personal narrative, text studies, poems, ceremonies and stories about aging, retiring, growing, learning, caring for elderly parents, living and dying.
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- CONTRIBUTORS
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- I. TEXT STUDIES
- Crown Me with Wrinkles and Gray Hair: Examining Traditional Jewish Views of Aging, Dayle A. Friedman
- "Do Not Cast Us Away in Our Old Age": Adult Children and their Aging Parents, Eliezer Diamond
- Passages: The Commentary of Moshe ibn Yehuda HaMachiri on Pirkei Avot, Hillel Goelman
- Alternate Paths to Integrity: On Old Age in the Hebrew Bible, Joel Rosenberg
- The Mitzvah of Bringing Out the Beauty in Our Elders' Faces, Danny Siegel
- II. MIDLIFE PASSAGES
- Empty Pockets: Beginning Again in Midlife, Linda Knaster Feldman
- "You Never Knew What Powers Lay Within You", Thomas R. Cole
- Redigging the Wells of Spirituality-Again, Kerry M. Olitzky
- Cycling and Recyling, Mary Gendler
- III. INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
- A Table with People: Storytelling as Life Review and Cultural History, Marc Kaminsky
- Even to Your Old Age: Reflections on Aging, Victor Hillel Reinstein
- A Letter to My Children, Gloria Levi
- Imaging My Mother (Essay with Charcoal Drawings), Suzanne Hodes
- IV. WOMEN AND AGING
- Behind the Rhetoric of "My Yiddishe Mama": The Status of Older Jewish Women, Sheva Medjuck
- Honoring Motherhood: Getting Beyond the I-It Relationship, Rosie Rosenzweig
- Commencement Beyond Fifty, Norma Baumel Joseph
- My Mother and I: A Daughter's Role in Caring for Her Aged Mother, Mickey Teicher
- V. JOURNEYS AND DISCOVERIES
- From Age-ing to Sage-ing, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
- My Body, My Self: Waning and Waxing, Alice Shalvi
- Have You Seen Sarah?, Savina J. Teubal
- Until God Says "Come," I'll Make the Best of My Life, Ben Engelman
- Participating in the Holy Burial Society, Muriel E. Ginsberg
- VI. MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF AGING
- Saving Broken Tablets: Planning for the Spiritual Needs of Jews in Long-Term Care Facilities, Cary Kozberg
- Growing Old on an Israeli Kibbutz, Susan Berrin, photographs by Aliza Auerbach
- Who Will Lead the Seder, Now That I Stand Alone?, Rachel Josefowitz Siegel
- Consenting to Age, Jonathan Segol
- Not Tired, Merely Retired, Everett Gendler
- Still Surviving, Judith Magyar Isaacson
- VII. POETRY AND STORIES
- 40, MarthaJoy Aft
- in my own image, Carol Rose
- Abishag Says His Hands Were Cold, Elizabeth Anne Sussman Socolow
- Dinah Goldberg, of Blessed Memory, Linda H. Feinberg
- Erasures, Ruth Daigon
- Bathsheba Watches Abishag, Barbara D. Holender
- Ruth and Naomi, Lynn Greenhough
- Lot's Wife, Maggie Dwyer
- VIII. CEREMONIES
- A Testament to Growing Older: The Av/Em Eitza Program, Paul Citrin
- An End to the Body's Silence, Phyllis Ocean Berman
- Havdalah: A Time to Acknowledge Growing Old, Marcia Cohn Spiegel
- A Personal "Seder" to Celebrate Aging, Anne Tolbert
- Let Your Heart Take Courage: A Ceremony for Entering a Nursing Home, Cary Kozberg
- Older Adult Confirmation, Dayle A. Friedman
- APPENDICES
- I. A Guide to Jewish Textual Sources on Aging
- II. Selected National and International Organizations Serving Jewish Elders and Their Families
- III. Resources: Publications
- IV. Glossary
- PERMISSIONS
- Notes
- Index
- About the Editor
- Copyright
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