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Not Just Stories The chassidic spirit through its classic stories. By Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski (Author)  List Price: $24.99 Online Discount: 10% You Pay Only: $22.49 Catalog #: NOTH ISBN-10: 0899063861 ISBN-13: 9780899063867 Binding: Hardcover / Pages: 370 Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches / Weight: 1.70 LBS Published: by ArtScroll Mesorah Publications In Stock?: YES Quantity:  1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950

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It is true. There is much more to Chassidism than “just stories” -- even though many popular and scholarly authors have portrayed the movement more as the province of storytellers than thinkers.

Chassidism has a rich spiritual, moral, and intellectual core, but its stories are often the best entrance to the treasures within. And some of the movement’s greatest thinkers have used its tales to captivate their listeners, and then initiate them into the thought-world of the Baal Shem Tov and his spiritual heirs.

In this time-honored craft, Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski M.D. has few peers. As a scion of a family that traces its roots to the founders of Chassidism, son of noble parents who planted and nurtured a slice of Galicia in Middle America, and close kin of renowned grand rabbis, Rabbi Twerski is steeped in the richness of Chassidic tradition. As an outstanding Torah scholar, master of homiletics, pioneering psychiatrist, and healer of torn psyches, he understands people’s hurts and needs.

In his hands, stories are “not just stories” -- they are precision tools that teach and enlighten, that heal and encourage.

This book is a masterpiece on many levels. It is a superb collection of stories, chassidic and otherwise, told by a master. It is a thoughtful and provocative exposition of great spiritual themes. It is a magnificent overview of Chassidus, a movement that breathed life, pride, and vigor into millions of Jews.

Not Just Stories will become a milestone publication, a book that will be read over and over again, for the stimulation of its message and the sheer joy of its text.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, M.D., is a descendant of the founders of the Chassidic movement, whose philosophy he embraces and applies in his psychiatric practice. An ordained Rabbi, Dr. Twerski is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pitttsburgh School of Medicine and founder and Medical Director of Gateway Rehabilitation Center, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Dr. Twerski’s earlier works, Living Each Day, Living Each Week, Growing Each Day, Smiling Each Day, I Am I, Self Improvement? -- I’m Jewish!, Mesillas Yesharim -- Lights Along the Way, and Positive Parenting have established his position as a Torah scholar who possesses psychological insights that enhance application of Torah principles to everyday life.

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Other Selected Titles by Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski:
Dearer Than Life
Four Chassidic Masters
Simchah - It's Not Just Happiness
Ten Steps To Being Your Best
Twerski on Machzor

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Table of Contents

Introduction

1. To Feel for Others
2. A Joyous Farewell
3. The Essence of Teshuvah
4. When Bad Things Happen to Good People
5. The Spirit of Tzeddakah
6. The Healing Pearl
7. In Pursuit of Truth
8. It's Not What You Do but How You Do It
9. Faith in Righteous People - Emunas Tzaddikim
10. The World As a Mirror
11. Just a Bit of Light
12. Return of a Favor
13. The Joy of Being Upstaged
14. We Shall Do and WE Shall Listen - Naaseh VeNishma
15. Not Just Pranksters
16. Don't Look for Excuses
17. The Fall of the Prodigy
18. Two Paths to the Same Goal
19. Love for the Holy Land
20. Songs of the Heart
21. It Can Be Done
22. Wherever You Happen to Be
23. His Mercy is to All
24. Tough Love
25. The Paragon of Storytellers
26. And When Life is Over
27. A Self-Made Man
28. Prayer
29. Simchah
30. The Childhood of a Tzaddik
31. Channeling the Energy
32. As the Sun in Its Brightness
33. Keeping It Simple
34. Never Too Late
35. Wisdom Surpasses Prophecy
36. Priorities
37. Empathy
38. When the Guilty Are Innocent
39. The Teacher and the Disciple
40. Gain Through Loss
41. Pleading for One's People
42. The Chassidic Existentialist
43. The Heart and the Mind
44. In Deference to Authority
45. By Special Merit
46. The Greatest of all Mitzvos
47. More Humble Than Any Person on Earth
48. And Walk Modestly With G-d
49. Rigorous Honesty
50. The Hierarchy of Torah
51. Nuggets
52. Like the Sun at Its Mightiest
53. What Life Is All About
54. The Secret Ingredient
55. Forgiveness
56. A Veritable Aishel Chayil
57. Nothing New Beneath the Sun
58. Avoiding the Bottomless Pit
59. Effort Is Essential
60. The General Principle of Torah
61. There Is No Justifiable Rage Epilogue: And Just What Is Chassidus?