100 Blessings Every Day: Daily Twelve Step Recovery Affirmations, Exercises for Personal Growth and Renewal Reflecting Seasons of the Jewish Ye (Twelve Step Recovery Series) [Paperback]

Kerry M. Olitzky (Author), Jay Holder (Afterword), Neil Gillman (Foreword)

Book Description

Series: Twelve Step Recovery Series | Publication Date: December 1993

Recovery is a conscious choice from moment to moment, day in and day out. This helpful and healing book of affirmations and daily recovery meditations gives readers words to life by, throughout the annual cycle of holiday observances and special times of the Jewish calendar.

Editorial Reviews

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"A wealth of spiritual and motivational material in an excellent and useful format." -- Dr. Moses Pfefferman, chair UJA/Federation Task Force on Addictions

"This book will undoubtedly help addictive Jews more comfortably avail themselves of the most effective means of controlling such compulsive behavior-the 12-Step Program, initially developed by Alcoholics Anonymous." (Bernard Reisman, Klutznick Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies, Brandeis University -- Bernard Reisman, Klutznick Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies, Brandeis University

"Your quotations are extremely powerful and your commentary meaningful. It is one of the most moving documents I have ever read." -- Dr. David Ellenson, Professor of Religious Thought, HUC-JIR, Los Angeles

From the Back Cover

A double blessing....Linking the daily renewal of the Twelve Step program with the rhythmic cadences and thematic content of the Jewish calendar is a stroke of genius.
Laurence J. OConnell, Ph.D, S.T.D., President & CEO, The Park Ridge Center for Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics

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Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing; 1st edition (December 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1879045303
• ISBN-13: 978-1879045309
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 4.5 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #569,793 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #69 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Judaism > Prayerbooks

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Daily meditations to ground and focus, May 26, 2007

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jewessjen "yeah, it's me" (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 100 Blessings Every Day: Daily Twelve Step Recovery Affirmations, Exercises for Personal Growth and Renewal Reflecting Seasons of the Jewish Ye (Twelve Step Recovery Series) (Paperback)

I still use this every morning to center myself and have a positive G-d centered thought for the day. I think it was specifically created for Jews in recovery but all of us have demons and can utilize this tiny and fat source of wisdom. Everything Olitz touches turns to gold...really, buy this book.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Kindle version is missing the Jewish date for each day's reflections, May 13, 2010

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Susan "Suz" (Long Island, NY) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: 100 Blessings Every Day: Daily Twelve Step Recovery Affirmations, Exercises for Personal Growth and Renewal Reflecting Seasons of the Jewish Ye (Twelve Step Recovery Series) (Kindle Edition)

This review is for the Kindle version.

I own both printed and kindle versions. Using my Kindle, I had hoped to read each day's mediatation while on the go.

The idea behind the book is to reflect on the seasons of the Jewish year. To do this, you need the Jewish dates in the book to find the mediatation for the day. If the date is "May 13, 2010", then the Jewish date is "29 Iyar". Tomorrow you go to the next entry and so on.

The print has the Jewish dates, Kindle does not. For example, in the print, this entry starts with the heading "Iyar: Independence Day 29: Healed by Love". Kindle just starts with quoted phrase of the day.

Totally backwards, To find my starting point in Kindle, I had to look it up in print then search Kindle.

Sheer laziness! The font for the the heading containing the Jewish date and "thought for the day" and the "For Growth and Renewal" section in each day are identical. It should have been "kindled" first time around.

I hope whoever "kindled" this title will re-do it and include the Jewish dates.

4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable, December 7, 2011

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Mah - See all my reviews

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This review is from: 100 Blessings Every Day: Daily Twelve Step Recovery Affirmations, Exercises for Personal Growth and Renewal Reflecting Seasons of the Jewish Ye (Twelve Step Recovery Series) (Paperback)

I have enjoyed the short, simple, pithy, daily thoughts, even though I am not Jewish. The entries are just long enough to give me something to ponder. And the exercises are uncomplicated, and helpful.