Torah can help you recover your soul—if you are willing to ask yourself the right questions. "If the Torah is the all-encompassing moral compass that it claims to be, and I believe it to be so, then we can find anything in it, including the support needed for recovery.... In it are the remedies for all spiritual maladies—we just have to probe the text, dig deeply in it and drink of its life-giving waters." —from the Foreword In this soul-restoring resource, Rabbi Mark Borovitz combines his knowledge of Judaism and his experience as a leader in the field of recovery to help you find in the Five Books of Moses the deeper meaning, wisdom and guidance for living well in the moment. For each Torah portion, he provides seven days of teachings and reflection questions to help you reconnect with your sacred self, discover solutions to life's challenges and to help you heal. Advertising
Rabbi Mark Borovitz was a mobster, gangster, con man, gambler, thief, and drunk. He has seen it all. Now, in this inspiring memoir, he takes you on a journey from the streets to discovering his soul in a ten-by-twelve-foot prison cell. When Mark was fourteen, his father died and his world came crashing down. Within months he was selling stolen goods for the mob out of his high school locker, beginning a twenty-year life of crime that ran the gamut from bar hustles and con games to cheque-cashing scams. Mark stole and gambled and drank, all the while trying to be the good son, the good brother, the good boy, but his life only spun more out of control until the mob put a hit out on him. From Cleveland he moved to Los Angeles, virgin territory, and amped up his hustles, schemes, and cons. Then came prison, but it only served to increase his legend, and he played every angle and then some in the prison yard. After his release, the drinking and thieving continued unabated until, at the edge of oblivion, Mark experienced a moment of true divine intervention, a startling revelation that both saved his life and sent him back to prison, where he actually wanted to be. There he found the keys to saving his soul. Along the way he also found true love and re-connected with daughter Heather, from his first marriage. His wife, daughter, mentors and friends all contribute to the book.. Mark Borovitz proves that you can change your life - profoundly. He is now the rabbi at Beit T'Shuvah in Los Angeles, the House of Return, a rehabilitation facility for addicts of all kinds, which he helped his wife to establish. Mark knows what these people feel and who they are because he was one of them. He is now, as he says, an advocate for the soul. THE HOLY THIEF is the remarkable memoir of an amazing man. It is a true-life gangster story, a passionate love story, and a case study in redemption. Mark's story is tragic, funny, uplifting and inspirational - and a great page-turner of a read.
Torah can help you recover your soul—if you are willing to ask yourself the right questions. "If the Torah is the all-encompassing moral compass that it claims to be, and I believe it to be so, then we can find anything in it, including the support needed for recovery.... In it are the remedies for all spiritual maladies—we just have to probe the text, dig deeply in it and drink of its life-giving waters." —from the Foreword In this soul-restoring resource, Rabbi Mark Borovitz combines his knowledge of Judaism and his experience as a leader in the field of recovery to help you find in the Five Books of Moses the deeper meaning, wisdom and guidance for living well in the moment. For each Torah portion, he provides seven days of teachings and reflection questions to help you reconnect with your sacred self, discover solutions to life's challenges and to help you heal. Advertising
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