About Parenting on a Prayer
In Parenting on a Prayer, Rabbi Amy Grossblatt Pessah mines the Jewish prayer book to discover key values for thoughtful parenting, relating them to the lessons she learned as the mother of three children.
Reviews
"An ancient and modern guidebook to parenting and a reminder to parents everywhere of the tenderness and wisdom with which we are all held by the Divine."
-- Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., author, Kitchen Table Wisdom
"An important book for all who struggle and rejoice in the challenges of parenthood!"
-- Rabbi David Ellenson, chancellor emeritus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
"Rabbi Amy Grossblatt Pessah is a master teacher who brings Jewish prayers to life and reveals the inner wisdom of our tradition. Every page of this inspiring work is filled with lessons to live by."
--Rabbi Naomi Levy, author, Einstein and the Rabbi
"This precious book embraces us and our children in wisdom, compassion, and joy."
--Rabbi Brad Artson, dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies
"Parenting on a Prayer describes Rabbi Amy Grossblatt Pessah's sensitive and carefully observed spiritual journey through mothering three children. Pessah offers prayers and sacred texts, as well as narrations of her own memories, to inform an ethically aware, compassionate, and gentle but firm parenting strategy."
--Rabbi Jill Hammer, author, The Jewish Book of Days
"I only wish this book had been available to me when I was actively parenting."
-- Rabbi Daniel Siegel, spiritual director, ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal Canada
About the Author
Amy Grossblatt Pessah is a rabbi, author, spiritual director, and mom. Serving various denominations and demographics throughout the country, Amy has been a Jewish educator for over 25 years, with a focus on Jewish Family Education. She received her BA in Jewish and Near-Eastern Studies from Washington University in St. Louis, a Masters degree in Jewish Education from Hebrew Union College, and rabbinic ordination from Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal. She lives in Florida with her husband Aryeh and together they are the proud parents of three young adults.
