Busboys Books Presents: Rabbi Tirzah Firestone for Wounds into Wisdom
Date and Time
May 6, 2019 6:30 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
May 6, 2019 6:30 pm
14th & V
Wounds into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma by Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, PhD. (Monkfish Book Publishing Company, dist. Consortium/IPS). Gloria Steinem says of the book: “Suffering trauma is tragedy enough, but burying tragedy only creates a magnet for more suffering. Tirzah Firestone’s WOUNDS INTO WISDOM is for anyone who has suffered trauma, either directly or in a family whose generational trauma is buried. It helps readers uncover suffering and use it to help others—the final stage of healing. We may not be able to control what happens to us, but we can create what happens next."
Wounds Into Wisdom makes a compelling case that trauma legacies can be transformed and healed. Fusing contemporary neuroscience, psychology, and ancient Jewish wisdom and values, this work provides a roadmap for Jews, and all individuals and groups with trauma history, who wish to seize the power to change their lives. Gripping case studies and interviews with trauma survivors and their descendants—from Berlin to Shanghai, Cairo to Colorado—demonstrate what Viktor Frankl called, "the uniquely human potential to transform personal tragedy into triumph."
Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, PhD, is an author, Jungian psychotherapist, and founding rabbi ofCongregation Nevei Kodeshin Boulder, Colorado. She was ordained by Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi in 1992 and is a leader in the international Jewish Renewal Movement. She served as Co-Chair of Rabbis for Human Rights, North America (now known as T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights.) Widely known for her work on Jewish feminism and the modern applications of Jewish mystical wisdom, Firestone teaches widely on Jewish ancestral healing and the common boundary between ancient Jewish heritage and modern psychology. Rabbi Firestone lives in Colorado with her husband David. Together they have three grown children, Brianna, Emily, and Dakota..
