Recommended Reading
*Be Within, Stay Above from meditations on the wisdom of the Rebbe compiled and condensed by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman
Short, insightful, brilliant and uplifting Jewish wisdom on a variety of topics.
*Chicken Soup for the Grieving Soul: Stories about Life, Death and Overcoming the Loss of a Loved One by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hanson
*Hope Will Find You: My Search for the Wisdom to Stop Waiting and Start Living by Rabbi Naomi Levy
This book is written about the author’s search while dealing with a grave illness of her daughter.
*Living a Joyous Life: The True Spirit of Jewish Practice by Rabbi David Aaron
*Mourning and Mitzvah: A Guided Journal for Walking the Mourner’s Path Through Grief to Healing by Anne Brener
This book walks the reader through the steps of grief from the initial loss in the Jewish tradition.
Plan B by Sheryl Sandberg
Written by a wealthy forty-something woman whose husband died suddenly. Her “plan A” was to live with him until they were both old. Since that didn’t work she needed to figure out a “plan B.”
*Remember My Soul: What to do in Memory of a Loved One by Rabbi Yaakov and Lori Palatnik
This book provides 30 days of insight and exercises to help process a loss and work through it with meaning.
*Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life by Eric Greitens
This book consists of letters Greitens wrote to his friend who was struggling with life and moving forward.
*The Choice by Edith Eger
The author is a Holocaust victim who transformed her life and others by realizing that the one thing no one could take from her was the choices she could make about how she handled what life sent her way.
*The Happiness Prayer: Ancient Jewish Wisdom for the Best Way to Live Today by Rabbi Evan Moffic
This book goes through the prayer “Eilu Devarim” (these are the things) and how each of the things listed in the prayer from celebrating with the bride to study and to helping a mourner are paths toward happiness.
*You, Happier by Daniel G. Amen, MD
This book covers the brain science of being happier with specific, easy to follow steps to take to become happier.
*These books are available in our lending library.