Questions for Reflection or Discussion
A companion guide to The Wholeness of a Broken Heart
Some books are meant to be read. Others are meant to be lived with, talked about, and returned to. This companion guide offers questions for reflection or discussion for every chapter of The Wholeness of a Broken Heart, so you can carry its teachings off the page and into your own life.
Use it on your own as a journaling companion, or bring it to your book club, congregation, study group, or a conversation with a trusted friend. There are no right answers here, only invitations to pause, notice, and go a little deeper.
What’s Inside
Part One: The Challenges of Being Human.
Questions on suffering, pain, grief, belonging, and holding love and loss at the same time.
Part Two: What We Can Do About It.
Questions organized around Accepting What Is, Vulnerability, Self-Care and Self-Love, Family and Framily, Finding Beauty, Faith and Angels Among Us, and The Way Miracles Work.
About The Wholeness of a Broken Heart
All humans will experience trials, tribulations, or traumas, and Pessah tells the story of losing her twenty-year-old son to brain cancer. While some of us will have more intense challenges than others, there is no doubt that being human is hard. This book addresses this universal human condition from the perspective of Jewish spirituality.
Through Jewish texts and teachings, Rabbi Amy engages with the big questions—suffering, responsibility, purpose, and God—with depth, accessibility and emotional intelligence. Full of personal anecdotes, as well as lessons learned from the lived experiences of others, The Wholeness of a Broken Heart honors brokenness as part of the human experience and helps the reader to find joy, meaning, purpose, and connection.
“This is one to share with your family, friends, book club and congregation.”
— Rabbi Dr. Ron Wolfson, author of Relational Judaism