Reaching Godward portrays the quest for connection with God through a series of vignettes, each a composite of people with whom Dr. Ochs has worked. .Each person is different and thus each journey is different, but all have developed ways of living out their commitments so that their personal relationships with God continue to develop and their lives continue to be richer for it.

* Deals with the peaks and valleys of life
* Uses prose and poetic meditations
* Draws from both traditional and contemporary Jewish sources

Rabbi Harold Schulweis is known and respected as one of modern Judaism"s most significant and creative thinkers and authors. He is the senior rabbi of Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, CA, and the founder of the Jewish Foundation of the Rescuers.

What others have said about Finding Each Other in Judaism:

Throughout his life, Harold Schulweis has dared to speak truths no one else would acknowledge. Now he confronts the twin enemies of meaningful ritual: riteless passages and passageless rites. His solution is the passionate and profound celebration of the sacred in this moving book of poems, prayers, and meditations that reconnects us with the Image of God and thereby helps us find each other in the sacred moments that matter.

Dr. Lawrence Hoffman, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York

This is a rich and exciting religious phenomenology of the different moments in a Jew"s life when he acts out the tradition"s symbolic drama. The rituals of birth, bar-mitzvot, weddings and burial are the shared symbolic language of the Jewish people.

Schulweis offers one of the profound understanding of the human significance of this drama and enables the individual Jew to feel connected to community not out of guilt, not out of respect for tradition, but out of a deep inner yearning for human fulfillment.

Rabbi David Hartman
The Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem

A splendid and luminous book! No one speaks to the mind and soul of the questing Jew as eloquently as Harold Schulweis.

Rabbi Harold Kushner, Author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People

In The Mitzvah of Healing, readers are able to explore every facet of Jewish healing, from historical perspectives to personal stories, traditional texts to modern meditations and rituals. In this valuable collection, which originated with the women's affiliate of the Reform Movement, numerous difficult questions are addressed concerning the healing of body, mind and soul. The thoughts, prayers and experiences of Debbie Friedman, Rabbi Nancy Flum, Rabbi Simkha Weintraub, Debbie Perlman and more contribute to this important collection of essays. Individuals, families and communities will be enriched, inspired and assisted on their paths of healing with this indispensable resource and guidebook.