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The Jewish Journaling Book: How to Use Jewish Tradition to Write Your Life & Explore Your Soul
A handbook for journaling in the rich tradition of Judaism.
Explore your experiences, relationships, and feelings through this guided tour of journal-keeping in Jewish tradition.
Journaling has been, and remains, an inherently Jewish activity. From the Kabbalist mystics who recorded their practices of reaching altered states of consciousness, to the more recent journals of those who lived during the Holocaust, to the spiritual precedent for Jewish journal-keeping at holy times of the year, writing, recording, and reflecting have long been a part of Jewish custom.
Janet Ruth Falon delves into the practical aspects of keeping a journal as well as how you can use your journal to nurture Jewish values and concerns. Using examples from her own writing, she demonstrates how journaling can unleash your creativity and reveal aspects of yourself that you may not have thought about before. She also includes 52 journaling tools that teach specific techniques to help you create and maintain a vital, living journal, from a Jewish perspective.
Inspiring and practical, this guided tour of journaling shows how yours can be used to better understand yourself and the world.
Explore your experiences, relationships, and feelings through this guided tour of journal-keeping in Jewish tradition.
Journaling has been, and remains, an inherently Jewish activity. From the Kabbalist mystics who recorded their practices of reaching altered states of consciousness, to the more recent journals of those who lived during the Holocaust, to the spiritual precedent for Jewish journal-keeping at holy times of the year, writing, recording, and reflecting have long been a part of Jewish custom.
Janet Ruth Falon delves into the practical aspects of keeping a journal as well as how you can use your journal to nurture Jewish values and concerns. Using examples from her own writing, she demonstrates how journaling can unleash your creativity and reveal aspects of yourself that you may not have thought about before. She also includes 52 journaling tools that teach specific techniques to help you create and maintain a vital, living journal, from a Jewish perspective.
Inspiring and practical, this guided tour of journaling shows how yours can be used to better understand yourself and the world.
304 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2004
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May 20, 2026
This was on my list of "Projects to do during the Omer," and I am so glad that I finished it during the 49 days of counting between Passover and Shavuot. I didn't know what to expect in terms of Jewish content or journaling techniques, and I was excited and inspired by what I learned. Falon doesn't tell you anything you "have" to do. She has 52 suggestions -- some are repetitive -- for making a journal a safe space and one that is your own. I like that she gave "permission" not to write every day, to put pictures and clippings in the journal, to write about anything you want, to keep a list of topics when you want to write but you're not sure what to write about, and the encouragement to write about everything -- the good and the bad.
The Jewish aspects were interesting as well, as Falon shares that she used her journal to explore her challenges with faith and observance. She encouraged writing about Shabbat, about rituals who enjoy (and ones you don't), and about how the Torah portion or Haftarah portion speaks to you.
An excellent resource, if you can't bring Falon to your group to give a class on journal writing, use the book as a guide.
The Jewish aspects were interesting as well, as Falon shares that she used her journal to explore her challenges with faith and observance. She encouraged writing about Shabbat, about rituals who enjoy (and ones you don't), and about how the Torah portion or Haftarah portion speaks to you.
An excellent resource, if you can't bring Falon to your group to give a class on journal writing, use the book as a guide.
July 29, 2014
I first met Janet unexpectedly at a farmers market in Elkins Park. I guess it is part of my Spiritual Journey.
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Give your day away! You don’t have to give a physical gift, you can give your time - to someone you love, to a charity or whatever you wish! Make your day a gift to someone else.
I like that idea...
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Write a letter to yourself in five years
What's your life like right now? Right this minute? Where will you be in five years time? (that sounds like a good birthday idea for me)
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Bake a cake or cup cakes for myself lol sounds silly
http://www.labyrinthbuilders.co.uk/ou...
http://www.kevineikenberry.com/resour...
Give your day away! You don’t have to give a physical gift, you can give your time - to someone you love, to a charity or whatever you wish! Make your day a gift to someone else.
I like that idea...
http://www.yesandyes.org/2009/07/mill...
Write a letter to yourself in five years
What's your life like right now? Right this minute? Where will you be in five years time? (that sounds like a good birthday idea for me)
http://www.celebrations.com/content/h...
Bake a cake or cup cakes for myself lol sounds silly
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