Rabbi Praised for Teshuva Work

By COLlive reporter

What exactly is Teshuvah and how does it function? Is it possible to foster healthy regret without eroding our self-esteem? How do we forgive? And feel forgiven? How do we deal with guilt?

The enlightening answers to all these questions appear in a new 288 page book titled “Reclaiming the Self: on the Pathway of Teshuvah” that is already being translated into Russian, Spanish, and Hebrew.

Its author, Rabbi DovBer Pinson, a noted author and scholar, has once again produced a work that is transformative and uplifting, and comes just in time for the month of Elul, and the spiritual preparation for the New Year.

The book offers a glimpse into a world with-out the damaging influence of past negativity – where misdeed is transformed into merit.

Rabbi Pinson, director of IYYUN Center for Jewish Spirituality in Brownstone Brooklyn, is recognized as an authority on authentic Kabbalah and Jewish spirituality and travels extensively lecturing and teaching the deeper wisdom of Torah.

In thanking Pinson for writing the book, Britain’s Chief Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Sacks wrote: “The Jewish people are blessed by your contribution. Reclaiming the Self is an excellent work that will be a great source of inspiration to many people.”

Calling it “essential reading for Elul,” Sacks added: “For any person who has ever tried to achieve real transformation – finally, a real guide, wise and loving, to becoming the person you know you can be, and overcoming the many challenges of the past to come full circle to a healing and positive future.”

A review on Amazon.com written by Elijah Solomon said: “In the Jewish, and general spiritual, book world there are often 2 kinds of publications: 1) Lots of ideas and theory with very little practical application. 2) Lots of surface oriented practical application with very little depth or meaning attached to it.

“This book, “Reclaiming the Self” by Rabbi Dovber Pinson, supplies heavy doses of both meaning (theory) and meditation (practice)… Each chapter is then concluded with an easy-to-follow but profound suggested meditation to enable and empower the reader to truly “experience” these life changing teachings.”

“Reclaiming the Self’ is available in all fine bookstores, and on Amazon.com as a hardcover and in a Kindle Edition