Confessions of a Rabbi and a Psychic [Hardcover]

Shmuley Boteach (Author), Uri Geller (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Element Books Ltd (March 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1862047243
• ISBN-13: 978-1862047242
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,640,861 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is one of the world's leading relationship experts and spiritual authorities. His twenty-one books have been bestsellers in seventeen languages, and his award winning syndicated column is read by a global audience of millions. He is the host of TLC's award-winning Shalom in the Home and was Oprah Winfrey's love, marriage, and parenting expert on Oprah and Friends. He served for eleven years as rabbi at Oxford University, where he built the Oxford L'Chaim Society into the University's second largest student organization. Today, Newsweek calls him the most famous rabbi in America. The winner of the highly prestigious London Times Preacher of the Year award, Rabbi Shmuley is also the recipient of the National Fatherhood Award and the American Jewish Press Association's Highest Award for Excellence in Commentary. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, Debbie, and their nine children.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A spiritual conversation worth watching, February 3, 2007

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M. R. Estante "book reader" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Confessions of a Rabbi and a Psychic (Hardcover)

Many major religions give the concept of a prophet such as Elijah, Isaih, Ezekiel, who saw beyond time in the Torah or Old Testament. There are many bible stories of people who had a gift of vision such as Joseph of the the Coat of Many Colors. This book is a modern exploration of how the correspondence between a Rabbi and a Psychic unfold. Being psychic is a real happening. The question is .... how can one be psychic in the realm of religion. Is there no harmony in it? Rabbi Boteach and Uri Gellar have a correspondence on this phenomenon. What is God's will for those who can see? An interesting communication on the nature of spirit.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than a biography, July 25, 2002

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This review is from: Confessions of a Rabbi and a Psychic (Hardcover)

Confessions of a Rabbi and a Psychic gives a deep insight into the thinking and lives of these two people more than any biography ever could. With each page new and ever-pressing issues are dealt with in a very human manner, making it an excellent read and totally unputdownable.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Together they're Enhanced, October 2, 2002

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L. Dann "adhdmom" (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Confessions of a Rabbi and a Psychic (Hardcover)

The appeal of these two unique and controversial men is greatly enhanced in their letters. Within the relationship the issues that plague their public personnas are mere events that lie on the periphery of their humble searchings. They are the backdrop for their signal concerns about how to live life honorably when humility is culturally and personally under-rated and few examples are taught or revered. Those hardly unique issues are what they seek to heal or answer in their conversations and brief confessions. It is the manner of doing, the expressing, the advising and often the neutralizing that makes these highly personal letters easy to read and relate to. This could be any two men or women who grapple with the need to be recognized. It is this need that motivates them, even energizes their work and it is also that which is part of their narcissistic pangs of doubt and shame. Both struggle with their own authenticity, that inner voice and the more rowdy and raucus voice of their public. They love and hunger and walk that tightrope of sexual as well as other grandiosities. They are human, and in them, we are just that more forgiving- of them- and hopefully of ourselves. Whether Geller can bend the spoons or not- is so much nothing and the Rabbai's Kosher Sex is what they do when they're not loving their families and extending their souls to each other. Soothing and best of all- no Self-help and no sermons.