Whence My Help Come: Caregiving In The Jewish Tradition

"Whence My Help Come: Caregiving In The Jewish Tradition" gives those who provide spiritual care, both rabbis and others motivated to serve as instruments of healing, the conceptual models and practical tools to do the holy work of "hesed," loving-kindness. It is one thing to have a good heart. It is another to have the sophistication to exercise one's goodness of heart in constructive interventions to promote healing for others in their times of suffering. ...The Rev. Paul D. Steinke, Supervisor Clinical Pastoral Education, Bellevue Hospital Center, Chair of the Eastern Region Association for Clinical Pastoral Education writes "Rabbi Kestenbaum makes a passionate argument for the Jewish view on pastoral care that is derived from Jewish Scriptures, experience and custom. Rabbi Kestenbaum has much to teach Rabbis, but also practitioners of other religious groups. Rabbi Kestenbaum reveals and updates the ancient Jewish rituals and practices for a stunning explication of pastoral care. The winners here are the people in hospitals suffering everywhere."