GIFT OF SOUL, GIFT OF WISDOM
By Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
SUBJECT:
Leadership and mentoring.
AUDIENCE:
Adult
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
Each of us has the potential to become a truly great mentor. But how can we bring these gifts to our
students, our children, our colleagues, and our communities? How can we build our skills as leaders and
spiritual guides?
In this wide-ranging and personal book, Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson demonstrates how each of us can be
a better mentor. Rabbis, cantors, and educators, teachers and parents, managers and executives—we all
have the potential to give the gift of our experience, the gift of our knowledge, the gift of our souls. In a
book filled with profound wisdom, spiritual guidance, and life lessons, Rabbi Artson provides us with a
road map to becoming an effective mentor, answering questions such as:
How to reach out to others with affection
How to enhance our communications skills
How to open our personalities and our lives to others
Gift of Soul, Gift of Wisdom is an ideal gift for boards of trustees, religious school committees, and other
lay leaders, and a valuable study resource for adult education programs and for those wishing to lead and
mentor others from a Jewish perspective.
CONTENTS:
Section I. Leaders and Mentors in Our History, Section III. Becoming Better Leaders, and
in Our Tradition, in Our Lives Mentors
Chapter One The Contemporary Challenge Chapter Five Can Anyone Be a Mentor?
Chapter Two The Jewish Way to Transmit Chapter Six The Virtues of a Mentor
Wholeness and Wisdom Chapter Seven A Mentor’s Communication Skills
Section II. Leaders and Mentors in Today’s IV. Roadblocks on a Mentor’s Path
World Chapter Eight When a Mentor Is Wounded:
Chapter Three Parents: The Quintessential A Prelude
Mentors Chapter Nine Conflicts Due to a Mentor’s Role
Chapter Four Other Mentors Chapter Ten When Expectations and Reality Clash
Section V. Completing the Circle
Chapter Eleven Who Heals the Healers?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson is Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and Vice President of the
University of Judaism in Los Angeles. He is the author of five books, well over one hundred articles, and
is on the faculty of the Wexner Heritage Foundation.
OTHER:
200 pages; hardcover.
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Advance Praise for:
GIFT OF SOUL, GIFT OF WISDOM
By Rabbi Bradley Artson
“Rabbi Artson’s book will both touch readers deeply and educate them greatly. Jewish tradition
teaches that ‘words that come from the heart enter the heart.’ And so it is with this book”
Dr. Deborah Lipstadt
Emory University
“With enormous sensitivity, Bradley Shavit Artson explores the great Jewish tradition of
mentoring—of providing guidance and inspiration—showing how each of us may become a
mentor, guiding and inspiring one to the other.”
Prof. Susannagh Heschel
Dartmouth College
“A book whose pages are filled with deep Jewish passion and equally deep Jewish learning—a
rare combination.”
Dennis Prager
National Syndicated Radio and Talk Show Host
“A remarkable guide to mentoring. Rabbi Artson shows each of us how personal and
professional challenges can be transformed into sources of growth, and how each of us can help
others develop into strong leaders. He reminds us of Judaism’s emphasis on engaging with other
and making a difference in our ever-changing world.”
Ruth Messinger, President
American Jewish World Service
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