Jewish Lights Pub, Fachbücher, Midrash & Medicine: Healing Body and Soul in the Jewish Interpretive Tradition (Englisch,...

Preface Michele F. Prince, LCSW, MAJCS Acknowledgments Introduction1 METAPHORS AND SIDE EFFECTS L'Mashal: Metaphor and Meaning in Illness Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub, LCSW From Heaven to Hypochondria: Metaphors of Jewish Healing Stuart Schoffman, MPhil2 THE NARROW PLACE FROM WHICH HEALING COMES, AND THE EXPANSIVE EDGE OF THE CONTINENT Surviving the Narrow Places: Judah and Joseph and the Journey to Wholeness Rabbi Norman J. Cohen, PhD Widening the Boundaries Rabbi Eric Weiss3 LYRIC AND COMMUNITY The Midrashic Impulse in Poems, Our Dialogue with Ecclesiastes, and Other Lyrical Interpretations Rabbi William Cutter, PhD "Psalms, Songs & Stories": Midrash and Music at the Jewish Home of San Francisco Rabbi Sheldon Marder4 GOD IN THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE: SOME MIDRASHIC ELABORATIONS Talking to Physicians about Talking about God: A Midrashic Invitation Rabbi William Cutter, PhD A Physician's Response to the Midrashic Invitation Ronald M. Andiman, MD5 CONTEXTS OF SUFFERING, CONTEXTS OF HOPE Neither Suffering nor Its Rewards: A Story about Intimacy and Dealing with Suffering and with Death Ruhama Weiss, PhD The Experience of Suffering: A Response to Ruhama Weiss Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, PhD6 MIDRASHIC RENDERINGS OF AGE AND OBLIGATION After the Life Cycle: The Moral Challenges of Later Life Thomas R. Cole, PhD The Journey of Later Life: Moses as Our Guide Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman, MSW, MAJCS, BCC7 NARRATIVE AND LOSS Words in the Dark: A Personal Journey Eitan Fishbane, PhD Reflections on the Dark Linda Raphael, PhD8 THE DILEMMAS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY THE HEALING RESPONSE OF MIDRASH The Danger of Cure, the Value of Healing: Toward a Midrashic Way of Being Philip Cushman, PhD Midrashic Thinking: An Appreciation and a Caution Rabbi Lewis M. Barth, PhD9 THE NARRATIVE TURN IN JEWISH BIOETHICS Aggadah and Midrash: A New Direction for Bioethics? Rabbi Leonard A. Sharzer, MD Jewish Bioethics: Between Interpretation and Criticism Jonathan Cohen, PhD10 WHAT TAKES PLACE AND WHAT CAN BE CHANGED A Midrash on the Mi Sheberakh: A Prayer for Persisting Rabbi Julie Pelc Adler The Human Body and the Body Politic Rabbi Richard Address, DMinNotes Credits.