Rabbi Shaina’s Book Suggestions to Prepare for the Days of Awe:

To find them, try our library, the public library, Amazon or other websites.

You can’t go wrong with any of these! (Note, this list is NOT inclusive)

1. Days of Awe: A Treasury of Jewish Wisdom for Reflection, Repentance, and Renewal on the High Holy Days by Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon. This is a book you’ll probably want to read and re-read every year in preparing for the holidays.
2. Forty Days of Transformation: Daily Reflections of Teshuvah by my colleague Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins. (www.jewishgrowth.org)
3. Meditations for the Days of Awe also by Rabbi Elkins and available at same website.
4. Repentance: the Meaning and Practice of Teshuvah by Louis Newman. This book is new and is excellent. It is written from the vantage point of one who has been through the twelve-step program and is both helpful and spiritual.
5. Words that Hurt, Words that Heal by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin. A must-read!
6. Hillel, If Not Now, When? Also by Rabbi Telushkin.
7. Man’s Search for Meaning by the noted, late psychiatrist Dr. Victor Frankl – incredible insights here.
8. A Formula for Proper Living: Practical Lessons from Life and Torah by (Rabbi/Dr.) Abraham Twerski.
9. Filling Words with Light by Rabbi Lawrence Kushner

Enjoy!