Quick Tips for Successful Yom Kipur Fasting

B'SD

8 Tishrei 5769

Yom Kipur begins Wednesday night. The 25-hour-long fast is hard on people with medical problems.

It is a MITZVA (Divine directive) to protect your health. Ask your doctors if you may be excused from the avoidance of food and drink. We are NOT supposed to kill ourselves over Yom Kipur nor are we allowed to use this time to make ourselves sicker.

If you know that you may safely endure the no-drinks or food day while focusing on spiritual matters, check out THIS SITE for a quick look at foods that can fortify you before and after Yom Kipur if indeed you will be fasting.

Please join world Jewry in begging The One Above for world peace, physical health and emotional comfort. May it flow like sweet water. Worldwide.

Yoji

Look Who's Using My Book (with permission) Before it's Published!

July 10, 24 Tamuz 5767

Yesterday I posted a reference to some exciting developments about my book that I'd share in the foreseeable future. This item below is just too precious to hold back from you. It is a message I received this week from a prominent psychiatrist (to a colleague). He is also a prolific author:

Yocheved gave me her manuscript on "It's My Crisis." I have given it (with her permission) to several cancer patients on chemotherapy and they found it very helpful. I think it would be a great mitzvah to make this available to all who may need it.
Abraham J. Twerski, MD

Here's bit of vocabulary help for international readers of my blog and my soon-to-be-released book: a mitzvah is a good deed, the fulfillment of one of GOD's many commandments (there are more than the widely known 10).

Several months ago, I received this note from one of Dr. Twerski's colleagues:

“Friends of ours have a young child recently diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy (currently a terminal diagnosis). I assisted them with [It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To]... It enabled them to face their challenge with strength.” Psychotherapist Jonathan Dove, UK

Okay healers in the medical and mental health worlds, you read the news here first. "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge" can help your patients and clients.

The release date of "It's MY Crisis!" is fast approaching. You'll be able to buy it here and through my publisher first. Keep coming back to this blog as your number one source of a tool to help your life or someone else's ;^)