Manual Soul Searching (Finding Truth Book 1)

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Read reviews that mention rabbi levy naomi levy rabbi naomi highly recommend einstein and the rabbi open mind read this book love this book beautiful book recommend this book book were rabbi soul book spiritual journey jewish powerful words letter personal chapter. Showing of 68 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Einstein and the Rabbi, by Naomi Levy, is on one level a mystery about a letter that Albert Einstein wrote to a grieving Rabbi; and it is on an another level about the mysteries about the soul.

The book explains the connections we all have. However, this book is really about love: However, her love spreads out to encompass the reader. She wants the reader to reach his or her potential in love, work, and parenting. She wants us to find our calling. This book is not mere New Age theology; rather Rabbi Levy taps into ancient Jewish texts and thought to illuminate how the soul can be tapped into to create a more meaningful and successful life. Furthermore, she wants us to tap into our pain to find our path.

Her story about the biologist is a great example. Some stories will make you cringe. It was painful to read about the woman who killed a man while she was reaching for her phone. Other stories will make you laugh. I could not help laughing at the story about how she and her husband forgot that they left her car at her in-laws. The book is an easy read. I read the book over three evenings before going to bed. So, if you read the book quickly to find out what prompted Einstein to write a letter to Rabbi Marcus; I would recommend that you keep the book at your bedside.

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I can tell you that each sermon caused the congregation to think and reflect. In fact, one sermon caused me to change my life. I love this book. I agree it was about the impact of Einstein's words to a man the author searched to find only to be further inspired by his story is the point of the title. The author's story is truly one of great challenge and inspiration. When she speaks of the soul it touched my heart.

I often forget to hear what the soul wants by going within or in a small miracles I forget to be grateful for each day. Her words are a reminder that there is purpose in searching for our souls. Like her other books, I am again inspired. Before I was through the first chapter of Rabbi Levy's Einstein and the Rabbi, the book became my traveling companion. It went with me on every errand, doctor's appointment and church.

I completed reading the book in three days. I plan on having a women's reading group when the paperback becomes available in September. Rabbi Levy has touched the core of what it means to be human and made in the image and likeness of God in language "others can understand. It is a book I will use as a resource in classes at St Thomas University. I found a contemporary author who shines light in the darkness in a world that is full of chaos and dualism. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase.

Rabbi Naomi Levy is such a gentle warrior who leads the reader to realms of honest confrontation of life and death issues. Be prepared to be touched and transformed. Rabbi Levy's writing touches the soul. She has a talent for stirring the spirit through her accessible, unpretentious yet profound style that takes us places we didn't expect. Her openness inspires our own and invites us to nurture our spiritual lives.

I loved this book and wholeheartedly recommend it. What an amazing book, the story takes you on a journey within your own soul, spirituality and spirit. I found myself connecting, crying, feeling proud and most of all being inspired. Rabbi Levy is a gifted writer and story teller who inspires us to reach deep to find meaning.

Thank you leading me and all readers on this powerful journey. I love the book. Rabbi Levy writes beautifully. Sometimes the brutal directness of prayer spoken aloud offends me, but 1 can respect prayerfulness in ordinary speech. Iconclude with a coda on that great battleground between the Catholic church and our modem sensibility, namely sexuality. The passionate debates about contraception which took up so much energy in the sixties seem jaded now. In its self-presentation or sometimes its reporting in the media , it usually manages to vitiate whatever good sense it has by clothing it in fatuous rhetoric.

However, the pillorying of the church for root-and-branch distortion of our sexuality is another example of the myopia of much of what passes for contemporary commentary. We humans are engaged in a slow, sometimes exciting, often painful, project of trying to understand our natures, including our sexuality. Into that dialogue, the church has contributed many wonders and marvels including several by that most vilified of founding fathers, Paul of Tarsus , but also grievous mistakes and systematic distortion.

The church does not belong to some peculiar dark age on which we can look back with more or less severe judgement from the vantage-point of enlightenment. We have our own dark shadows, some of which will only emerge long after our own time. Sociological surveys, of which I am in general very sceptical, provide a wry commentary on this endless contemporary contestation between sex and religion. The surveys find that religious people report themselves as happier and more fulfilled sexually than those without religion.

Each Thursday morning, for about an hour and a half, I share aspects of the faith with some young mothers who want to know more about their faith in order to communicate it better to their children. Sharing with these has made me realise that we all have the same faith. The big difference, it seems to me, is that if they lost their faith they could still go on living out their married lives, loving their husbands, caring for their children. Whereas if I were to lose the faith, there would be absolutely no meaning to my kind of lifestyle. The only validity for the religious life is that it points beyond itself to the existence of God.

It does this, not just for the person who lives it, but for the people as a whole. This way of life has no sense if the faith dimension is not there. Coming down from the clouds Looking back, I realise that the call of the Beyond in life was part and parcel of my growing up. I can remember, as a young girl, feeling the call of God as I gazed up at Carrantuohill, the mountain which dominates our town at home, or lying in the long grass of a meadow watching the clouds drift over the sky.

But just as I had to leave the Kerry mountains behind to enter the Dominican novitiate in the flat plains of Kildare, so my faith in God had to come down from the clouds to be lived out in the stark reality of a novitiate which offered little in the way of home comforts. In the years since then, many of the externals have changed in religious life. But for most of us, even though they have demanded deep adjustments, the changes have made very little real difference to our identity.

I have felt just as much a sister in a pair of jeans in the middle of the Sinai Desert as in a full habit in choir. For me, the real revolution has been in a deepening of understanding of what religious life is all about. I still see it as a pointer to the existence of God.

But I now realise better that I can only live out the Beyond in life if I am faithful in the here and now to the person I am caring for, to the job to be done or the pain to be suffered. I am coming more and more to realise that faith is not so much a thing of the head as of the heart, not so much doctrines to be believed though these are there as a life to be lived in fidelity. And my fidelity to God will be shown only in faithfulness to other people. What is celibate love? There seems to be no difference between this kind of fidelity and.

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Again I would see the difference in the expression of that fidelity. They live out their fidelity primarily in the context of a husband and children whereas my vow of celibacy should free me to love all. A deepening understanding of the true meaning of celibacy came to many of us when, after Vatican II, we began to go home again. Seeing our married sisters and brothers living out their lives looking to the welfare of their children faced many of us with the realisation that we could become self-centered in our celibacy.

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It gradually dawned on us that the same love which they lavished on their families was being demanded of us in another context — potentially to the whole world, but actually to whomever we happened to be with at any given moment, whether that be the other sister in the community, the child in the classroom, the suburban family needing time and attention, or the person in a South African township. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever. But we can so easily fall into the occupational hazard of non-stop activity for others that we soon become, to quote the title of another great novel by Graham Greene, A Burntout Case.

The cares of life can be just as debilitating as debauchery and drunkenness. The point of religious poverty is not merely the lack of material goods, yet many of us will admit that we need to re-examine our present abundance in the light of the gospel. I find in my community today that we are approaching a simpler lifestyle, more from the standpoint of ecology than of gospel call. Knowing that we are devastating the earth is calling us to live more simply. The aspiration is there; I do not say I have reached it.

Time is also a resource; there is a poverty of time which demands availability, a sharing what one is and has with others. As sisters, statistically we have been the group in the church which has taken the Vatican II call to renewal of theology to heart. This we can now share, especially with women. I have in my turn learned so much from those who have lived out their faith in different circumstances from my own.

Early in my religious life, I was sent to South Africa and afterwards to Jerusalem; back in Dublin I have lived north, south and west of the city at different times. Obedience, however, is not a once-in-the-blue-moon event for me. Every moment I am presented with choices. I have to learn to listen to see which of those choices lead towards God and which away; which are for the true good of other people and the world as a whole and which are purely for my own satisfaction.

Prayer is the acknowledgement that human beings are not the be-all and end-all of the universe. I see personal prayer in my life as the space to listen to the word of God, to allow its light to penetrate my distracted mind and its power to make firm my scattered will and emotions. But if I never take time to be alone with God, I will lose the ability to recognise the new step demanded of me.

Prayer is an ability to be alone; to enter into the solitude of the heart; to search for God and the meaning of life, even when the way is dark and dreary. I find it now an entering, however briefly and dimly, into the presence that I see at the heart of the universe, enfolding all that is into one. Aloneness together Prayer in common has always been part of the prayer of sisters. I suspect that the community aspect of life is more exacting for a sister than for a married couple, since it has very little on the natural level going for it.

It is something of a miracle that thirty or even three women can live together without murdering one another. But there is much more to it than merely living together in common politeness. The community can be the place where we are accepted as we are, where we love, fail, try again, forgive and trust each other, where we attempt to share what we are and have with one another. This is not a full reality, as anyone who has come close to a group of sisters will know full well. But where there is a sense of accountability for one another, we can build one another up to live more fully for others.

Open-hearted Far from separating me off from other Christians, therefore, my life as a sister can make me more available to them.