Can we Find Order in a Time of Chaos? How Do We Respond to Trauma? - By Kliel Rose
Judaism offers us a set of beliefs which we as people can structure our lives. However, Jewish tradition has always been aware that each person and each community must be engaged in a continual struggle to find meaning. Judaism permits each of us to create and repair our worlds but within a communal set of core principles. Along with traditional Jewish teachings as well as modern psychology, we will learn how to apply these principles that might enable us to bring some order to us after experiencing trauma. In the words of Drs Kent Harber, Ph.D. and Razel Solow, PhD we find in Judaism a “structure in which we learn where we are, when we are, who we are”.