All Your Prayers Are Answered [Paperback]

Samuel E. Menahem (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2000

This book answers several questions that have perplexed people throughout the ages. Why do good people get sick and suffer misfortune? Can prayer help and heal? Is God powerful but not omnipotent? Or, does God have varying answers to prayers. This book suggests that all of us are alive for a reason, to learn and grow spiritually. This growth requires a movement toward faith, love, forgivenes and unity. Positive movement in these areas helps us deal with fear, hate, guilt and inferiority. These psychological problems are also opportunites for growth. As we learn to pray more effectively, we are healed spiritually, psychologically and often physically. We need to look at life as a beautifully unfolding divine plan. If all prayers were answered with instantaneous, miraculous healings, people would not learn to take responsibility for their thoughts, feelings and behavior. They would just turn to God to bail them out or provide selfish gain. Thus, all prayers are answered in a way that can lead to the maturity necessary to pray more effectively. Only God knows the next step in each person''s journey. Our job is to surrender to divine direction, take responsibility for ourselves, and do what we need to do, and accept all results. Prayer leads to maturity, peace and happiness, which in turn leads to more effective prayer.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Writer's Showcase Press (October 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 059513002X
• ISBN-13: 978-0595130023
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,506,545 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What's the question?, March 15, 2001

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Douglas Zimmerman (New York City, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All Your Prayers Are Answered (Paperback)

In Dr. Menahem's book, he doesn't disappoint. After his first book and after taking a class with him at Columbia, I expected nothing less than humor mixed with compassion and grace ... the book is firmly constructed within and outside the walls of classic to experimental philosophy/psychology. Delightful!! Just like Sam, er, Dr. Menahem.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Everyone is Capable of Praying, January 21, 2001

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Simon Glustrom (Bergen County, New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All Your Prayers Are Answered (Paperback)

Dr.Sam Menahem has authored a most insightful book which combines both the power of psychotherapy and religion. As a practicing rabbi for over forty years, I found that many people are fearful of both areas of psychotherapy and religion. They feel that the two disciplines interfere with their routine pragmatic lives. They are content to leave psychotherapy to the professional practitioners and matters of prayer to clergymen. Menahem masterfully debunks these distortions by showing that the layman can comfortably pray and expect answers provided that he understands what prayer can and cannot do for us. I have learned a great deal about myself and the power of prayer from this fine piece of work. Rabbi Simon Glustrom

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant! A must-read book!, October 25, 2001

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"richard_fuller" (Grand Rapids, MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All Your Prayers Are Answered (Paperback)

This reviewer read and endorsed Dr. Menahem's first book, When Therapy Isn't Enough. The publication of his second, All Your Prayers Are Answered, proves two truths to me. One is that education and the resultant enlightenment is ongoing. And the other is that Sam Menahem is even more insightful, compassionate and sharing than I knew.

All Your Prayers Are Answered continues and amplifies the fact that, "...in addition to the personal unconscious self, with all its conflicts, there is also a Higher Spiritual Self...". Thus, Dr. Menahem explores the ways in which prayer and meditation work, how to pray effectively and how to recognize the answers to our prayers.

The reader learns that, "When people seek therapy, they are usually looking for symptomatic relief from depression, anxiety, guilt or relationship problems". But as Dr. Menahem points out, "As we learn to join with the Higher Self, the part of us connected to the divine, our symptoms fade and our relationships improve".

By using his studies in Eastern and Western religions combined with his training in transpersonal psychology and actual case studies of patients he has treated, Dr. Menahem proves the effectiveness of the alliance between ego and Spirit. "It is very difficult to get the ego to acknowledge its inevitable alliance with God. But it is necessary and can be accomplished in different ways by the various forms of prayer".

All Your Prayers Are Answered can enable the reader to realize that the goal of prayer is Self realization, and that prayer helps us to see that the ego gives us an incomplete and erroneous perception of our true nature. Sam Menahem, Ph.D has written a new paradigm of understanding and enlightenment!