May 5, 2023 • 15 Iyar 5783 • Parshas Emor (Lev 21-24) • The 30th Day of the Omer
The purpose of this blog is a healthy Friday night dinner table. Please share.
Should you ever honor us with your company at our Friday night dinner table, you'll get to join our family tradition: after we break bread we take turns telling something we accomplished this week.
If someone doesn't feel like they accomplished anything, they are encouraged to share something that happened that they're happy about or grateful for.
Tonight, my children are probably going to tell me I don't need to speak because they surely already know what I'm going to say.
For the book that you see above has just arrived.
It isn't in bookstores yet, but getting a copy in my hands after ten years of research, writing, teaching, and revising; networking, collaborating, organizing, fundraising, typesetting, editing, proofreading, editing, editing... did I mention editing? . . . feels pretty good!
If someone doesn't feel like they accomplished anything, they are encouraged to share something that happened that they're happy about or grateful for.
Tonight, my children are probably going to tell me I don't need to speak because they surely already know what I'm going to say.
For the book that you see above has just arrived.
It isn't in bookstores yet, but getting a copy in my hands after ten years of research, writing, teaching, and revising; networking, collaborating, organizing, fundraising, typesetting, editing, proofreading, editing, editing... did I mention editing? . . . feels pretty good!
It is scheduled to be unleashed to the world on June 1.
We are also building a website, torahhealth.org, to be a hub of multimedia resources. All proceeds from book sales will go into the website and accompanying programs.
If you’d like to join this bandwagon, Amazon pre-orders are now possible.
If you click on the image above, it will take you there.
Even if you’re not a bookworm, you could help the cause by simply sharing this link with everyone in your personal social web. You never know - you may help someone by that simple share/forward.
To what extent is a healthy body a Torah issue?
How is living a healthy lifestyle good for you?
Why is it so hard to achieve?
What’s the best way for a busy person to create healthier habits?
Over 180 Torah sources spanning 2,000 years, with current scientifiic glosses!
Over 180 Torah sources spanning 2,000 years, with current scientifiic glosses!
Here’s the Table of Contents:
1. Betselem or Beheimah? The Purpose of Life and the First Mitzvah 3
2. The Wondrous Human Body – Your Betselem Vehicle 13
3. Shmiras HaGuf – The Mitzvah to Protect Life 23
4. Sugar in the Torah and in Nutrition 33
5. Conquering Your Sweet Tooth 47
6. The Most Important Food You’re Not Eating Enough Of 55
7. A Balanced Diet 61
8. True Happiness 71
9. The Sunshine Vitamin 79
10. Why Healthy Weight Matters 85
11. How to Achieve a Healthy Weight 95
12. Special Jewish Food Challenges 123
13. Fasting 157
14. Holy Eating – Refinement and Dignity 167
15. Achilah Gasah – Three Levels of Overeating 185
16. Im Tarutz – Why Exercise? 195
17. Anu Ratzim – How to Exercise 209
18. Sleep 231
19. Serenity 239
20. Bodily Functions 245
21. Three Common Health Traps 253
22. Chinuch: Helping Children Develop Healthy Habits 267
23. How Many Health and Fitness Mitzvos Are There? 283
24. Advanced Wisdom 315
25. Maasei HaRav: Torah Leadership 331
This all leads to one simple question for your table: Do any of these chapter titles intrigue or appeal to you?
Shabbat Shalom
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