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This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation (utgåvan 2003)

av Alan Lew

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There are times in life when we are caught utterly unprepared: a death in the family, the end of a relationship, a health crisis. These are the times when the solid ground we thought we stood on disappears beneath our feet, leaving us reeling and heartbroken, as we stumble back to our faith. The Days of Awe encompass the weeks preceding Rosh Hashanah up to Yom Kippur, a period in which Jews take part in a series of rituals and prayers that reenact the journey of the soul through the world from birth to death. This is a period of contemplation and repentance, comparable to Lent and Ramadan. Yet, for Rabbi Alan Lew, the real purpose of this annual passage is for us to experience brokenheartedness and open our heart to God. In This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared, Lew has marked out a journey of seven distinct stages, one that draws on these rituals to awaken our soul and wholly transform us. Weaving together Torah readings, Buddhist parables, Jewish fables and stories from his own life, Lew lays bare the meanings of this ancient Jewish passage. He reveals the path from terror to acceptance, confusion to clarity, doubt to belief, and from complacency to awe. In the tradition of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, This Is Real And You Are Completely Unprepared enables believers of all faiths to reconnect to their faith with a passion and intimacy that will resonate throughout the year.… (mer)
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Titel:This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
Författare:Alan Lew
Info:Little, Brown and Company (2003), Edition: 1, Hardcover, 288 pages; via Amazon
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Taggar:Jewish thought, religion, spirituality, Eastern thought, Eastern religion, ebook, reflection, introspection, Judaism

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This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation av Alan Lew

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Reread every year leading up to the Days of Awe and every year something else sticks out. See you next Elul. ( )
  s_carr | Feb 25, 2024 |
I read this in real time this year: a chapter for Tisha B'Av, a chapter for the rest of Av and so on, through Sukkot. R'Lew had me dead to rights: the holidays had fallen into a rut of tradition and ritual, but I needed to be shaken up and see them anew. And he got to me: I couldn't stop thinking about this book for months. Thinking about why I get angry when I want to be sad or empathetic; about the imagery of being completely unprepared, about mortality, and the books of life we write.

This book is really for all Jews: R'Lew makes clear that he has no expectations on what you believe, or if you believe anything at all. Whether you believe in G-d, whether you participate in any ritual life, whether you even acknowledge the HH, what is real is that we have on fewer day each day; our lives matter, but also will inevitably be forgotten and it is our responsibility to write the books of our lives how we wish them to be. And that we will fail at that responsibility. Those are the undeniable, intolerable facts of life. R'Lew died suddenly at a relatively young age, and that made his work more poignant to me.

(It's not aged perfectly: the passage about what an amazing and virtuous person Giuliani is made me cringe, reading it in 2019.) ( )
  settingshadow | Aug 19, 2023 |
I was first introduced to this book after reading the chapter on Kol Nidre in a class, and I was left weeping at my desk. So, in honor of the latest High Holy Day season, I obtained a copy.

This accessible, anecdote-heavy description of Elul through Yom Kippur was a joy to read. Those who are looking for a practical guide should choose something else (maybe Anita Diamant's Living a Jewish Life), but those searching for spiritual and personal meaning will appreciate Rabbi Lew's blending of traditional biblical interpretation and New Age practices. ( )
  maine_becca | Sep 25, 2019 |
I really liked the idea that without Freud, there could have been no Einstein, because Freud showed us that the invisible is more important than the invisible, thus paving the way for quantum physics. Interesting idea.
And I was shocked at the fact that WWI began in the Pale, thus displacing many Jews who then became far easier prey in WWII. Why do our history books not mention this?
Also inverting the famous 'those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it" by saying that one must in fact repeat one's history, acknowledge it, in order to let it go.

Otherwise this book mostly strikes me as a memoir with the rituals and weekly Parshiot between Tisha B'Av and Sukkot described woven together with the author's family history. ( )
  FourFreedoms | May 17, 2019 |
I really liked the idea that without Freud, there could have been no Einstein, because Freud showed us that the invisible is more important than the invisible, thus paving the way for quantum physics. Interesting idea.
And I was shocked at the fact that WWI began in the Pale, thus displacing many Jews who then became far easier prey in WWII. Why do our history books not mention this?
Also inverting the famous 'those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it" by saying that one must in fact repeat one's history, acknowledge it, in order to let it go.

Otherwise this book mostly strikes me as a memoir with the rituals and weekly Parshiot between Tisha B'Av and Sukkot described woven together with the author's family history. ( )
  ShiraDest | Mar 6, 2019 |
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There are times in life when we are caught utterly unprepared: a death in the family, the end of a relationship, a health crisis. These are the times when the solid ground we thought we stood on disappears beneath our feet, leaving us reeling and heartbroken, as we stumble back to our faith. The Days of Awe encompass the weeks preceding Rosh Hashanah up to Yom Kippur, a period in which Jews take part in a series of rituals and prayers that reenact the journey of the soul through the world from birth to death. This is a period of contemplation and repentance, comparable to Lent and Ramadan. Yet, for Rabbi Alan Lew, the real purpose of this annual passage is for us to experience brokenheartedness and open our heart to God. In This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared, Lew has marked out a journey of seven distinct stages, one that draws on these rituals to awaken our soul and wholly transform us. Weaving together Torah readings, Buddhist parables, Jewish fables and stories from his own life, Lew lays bare the meanings of this ancient Jewish passage. He reveals the path from terror to acceptance, confusion to clarity, doubt to belief, and from complacency to awe. In the tradition of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, This Is Real And You Are Completely Unprepared enables believers of all faiths to reconnect to their faith with a passion and intimacy that will resonate throughout the year.

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