Description
Ninety-nine percent of illness is due to people neglecting their health.
Midrash, Vayikra Raba 16:8
- What is the Torah view on health and fitness?
- How is living a healthy lifestyle good for your soul?
- Why is it so hard to live that way?
- What is the best way for a busy person to create healthier habits?
Body & Soul is a collection of over 180 major Torah teachings, some of which appear here in translation for the first time, including: Midrash, Talmud, Rambam, Ravad, Ramban, Ramchal, Rav Yisroel Salanter, Rav Shimshon Rafoel Hirsch, Rav Avigdor Miller, Rav Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Rav Shlomo Wolbe, and many others.
Supplemented with current medical knowledge, Body & Soul is your roadmap to join the journey to better health!
“Compellingly interesting. It even has a chance of motivating you to change your eating habits! I found myself paying more attention to my diet and exercise after reading it. Highly recommended.”
Rabbi Akiva Tatz MD
Dimensions 6X9
ISBN 9781680259155
Publisher Distributed by Feldheim
Number of pages 512
Binding type Paperback
Weight 1.80
doneliyahu –
Rabbi Alexander Seinfeld and medical Doctor Daniel Grove produced and published a well-written, exhaustively researched, entertaining tome for maintaining a healthy lifestyle according to accepted medical practices combined with their combined interpretation of Torah wisdom on the subject of keeping one’s body, mind, spirit, and soul healthy. A tall order to which they offer towards practice and realization.“Body and Soul” has the scholastic rigor of an academic text yet reads more like what one might expect if the family’s general practitioner and friendly forward-thinking rabbi were available in the neighborhood, ready to offer old-school caring, gentle and firm guidance, and modern medical and healing knowledge.Unlike many Torah-influenced texts or health-based publications, this is not a yawn-fest but is a very interesting, at many places fun, reading.You open it to read about some small topic, you keep reading about another smaller topic. After a few hours you find your fingers have gone through many of the nearly 400 pages of straight text, intermingled with fascinating graphic charts – including the data to start your own calorie tracking. Add more pages for the exhaustive rear-placed reference notes and an exhaustive index. A beautifully well-printed hefty tome perfect for the subject, should wear well for the frequency it would be referred once it is in your possession.I have a tendency to use suprarational tools when i engage Rabbi Seinfeld because he is a modern Torah sage, in my opinion. And a polymath, so he might introduce a topic not usually on the calendar of a shul talk. So again in “Body and Soul.”I think it is one of those books one would be wise enough to acquire with the intent of keeping it in the easy access of one’s library. But make sure you read and study it for your applications for the benefit of your body and your soul.A great necessary book.
E –
This book is excellent; a must-have for every Jewish home. It combines an in-depth philosophical discussion of the role of health and nutrition in Judaism together with practical tips and and practices to incorporate into daily life. I devoured (pun intended) half the book in one Shabbos, and have already started implementing some of its suggestions. Highly recommend.
D. W. –
I am about 1.5 times through the sefer. It is very well done and motivational.I was up to the perek of Mesillas Yesharim about perishus and eating when I got this sefer. It connects well with what the Ramchal writes there.
Jacob –
Both practical and spiritual with doable steps.Easy tips for real life. Very clear explanations of the importance.
Neill Brownstein –
Riding with my young nephew in his vehicle I said that looks like a useful tool .. I am trying it in my ancient BWM 740iL. My nephew is 54. I am 79.
😊 –
I bought Rabbi Seinfeld’s book for my teenage daughters birthday. Within a day she began reading it and hasn’t put it down since.
Meir Goldberg –
An excellent source of wisdom on the relationship between body and soul from a Jewish perspective and how to nourish both. Highly recommended
S. Schnee –
This book motivated me in my efforts to do more exercise and eat a more healthy diet. I also found the calorie lists interesting because they included foods from “real life”; it was surprising to see how many calories there are in certain foods that we all eat so often. The book takes into account very carefully the Jewish lifecycle and calendar and the food “challenges” that arise from them. This is unique and I appreciate that.