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Preface

xi

Introduction

xv

I Starting Again for the First Time

Part of a Long-standing Tradition

3

(8)

A Ritual to Mark Reconnection

11

(8)

Belonging to a Larger Whole

19

(8)

A Calling

27

(12)

A Rabbi's Perspective---Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter

39

(6)

A Rabbi's Perspective---Rabbi David Woznica

45

(6)

II Freedom to Believe

Vision for the Future

51

(6)

Second Life

57

(4)

Acts of Loving-Kindness

61

(10)

A Rabbi's Perspective---Rabbi Bernard Mehlman

71

(8)

III After Wading in Other Waters

A Seamless Whole

79

(16)

To Live in Both Worlds

95

(18)

Resonating Spiritually

113

(12)

A Rabbi's Perspective---Rabbi Gershon Winkler

125

(8)

A Rabbi's Perspective---Rabbi David Zaslow

133

(12)

IV A Choice of One's Own

From Violence to Peace

145

(12)

Meant to Be

157

(14)

Finding a Framework

171

(10)

Lightning Bolts

181

(10)

A Completely One-Person Decision

191

(10)

A Rabbi's Perspective---Rabbi Stephen C. Lerner

201

(8)

V Faith Into Art

Reflection of Life

209

(6)

Carrying It to Completion

215

(4)

Each Feeds the Other

219

(6)

A Way of Building a Life

225

(10)

A Finely Woven Tapestry

235

(14)

A Rabbi's Perspective---Rabbi Shefa Gold

249

(8)

Select Bibliography

257

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