SEFER HACHAIM: THE BOOK OF LIFE
Discovering Meaning and Joy through a Life of Torah Observance
TABLE OF CONTENTS and SAMPLE CHAPTERS
CHAPTER ONE - THE BOOK OF LIFE
1. THE RETURN TO LIFE
2. INSCRIBED FOR LIFE
3. TESHUVAH INSPIRED BY LOVE
4. APPRECIATING HASHEM’S KINDNESS
5. THE PERFECT SELF
6. FAITH IN THE POWER OF TESHUVAH
7. THE INNER POINT OF HOLINESS
8. HUMILITY - THE KEY TO ALL THAT IS GOOD
9. THE AGE OF TESHUVAH
10. THE PROMISE OF HOPE
11. THE FINAL TEST
CHAPTER TWO - AND THE LOST SHALL RETURN
12. THE DARKNESS OF EGYPT
13. DARKNESS HERALDS THE LIGHT
14. THE STATUTES OF CREATION MIRROR THE STATUTES OF THE TORAH
15. FORTITUDE TO AWAIT THE REDEMPTION
16. PREPARING FOR REDEMPTION
CHAPTER THREE - THE LIGHT AMIDST THE DARKNESS
17. THE CLOUDS OF GOLUS
18. THE TZADDIKIM ENLIGHTEN OUR EYES
19. AND YOU SHALL LIVE BY THEM
20. HUMBLE SIMPLICITY
21. YAAKOV’S DESCENDANTS LIVE ON IN HIS MERIT
CHAPTER FOUR - THE ROLE OF THE TZADDIK
22. THE IMAGE OF YAAKOV
23. DRAWING STRENGTH FROM OUR FOREFATHERS
24. A MODEL OF FORGIVENESS
25. THE SACRIFICE OF THE RIGHTEOUS
26. YEHUDAH DREW CLOSE - A YID DRAWS CLOSE TO HASHEM
27. A NOBLE THOUGHT IS A KIDDUSH HASHEM
CHAPTER FIVE - THE SLEEP OF EXILE
28. I SLEEP, BUT MY HEART IS AWAKE
29. TZADDIKIM LIVE ON AFTER THEIR DEATHS
30. DRUNK, BUT NOT FROM WINE
31. AWAKEN, O SLEEPERS FROM YOUR SLUMBER
32. RISING FROM THE SLEEP OF DESPAIR
CHAPTER SIX - ETERNAL YOUTH
33. THE LIGHT HIDDEN IN THE DARKNESS
34. FROM THE HOUSE OF PRISON, HE WENT OUT TO RULE
35. YOSEF’S SUPERFICIAL DESCENT
36. YISROEL IS A CHILD, BELOVED BY HASHEM
37. THE YOUTHFUL ELDERS
38. CHILDREN ARE THE FOUNDATION OF OUR NATION
CHAPTER SEVEN - CHANUKAH: THE VICTORY OF LIGHT OVER DARKNESS
39. A NATION OF NOBLEMEN
40. THE DARKNESS OF THE GREEK EMPIRE
41. ILLUMINATING THE DARKNESS
42. THE POWER OF RENEWAL
43. THEY RESTED ON THE TWENTY-FIFTH
CHAPTER EIGHT - RECLAIMING THE PAST
44. CONSTANT RENEWAL
45. SERVING HASHEM WITH SINCERITY
46. FINDING FAVOUR IN HASHEM’S EYES
47. PURITY OF WILL
48. THE FIRST THOUGHTS OF THE DAY
49. THE BEGINNING AND THE END
50. LONGING FOR MITZVOS
51. OPPORTUNITIES TO RECTIFY THE PAST
52. WHO WANTS LIFE?
53. THE TORAH IS THE ELIXIR OF LIFE
54. REVIVAL THROUGH TORAH
55. CORRECTING THE PAST
56. RESURRECTION OF LIFELESS DEEDS
57. THE DEW OF YOUTH
58. TESHUVAH FOR MITZVOS
59. ONE HOUR BEFORE PRAYER AND ONE HOUR AFTER
60. THE CORNERSTONE OF OUR FATHERS
61. EMULATING THE RIGHTEOUS
62. THE TZADDIK’S YAHRTZEIT - A ROSH HASHANAH OF INTROSPECTION
CHAPTER NINE - THE GATES OF THE HEART
63. GUARDING THE GATES OF THE HEART
64. SELFISH DESIRE LEADS TO HERESY
65. THE SPLITTING OF THE RED SEA AND THE WAR AGAINST AMALEK
66. AMALEK’S FOLLY
67. THE SOUL HEALERS
68. THE PASSING OF THE RIGHTEOUS
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