From Ashes to Healing: Mystical Encounters With the Holocaust : Fifteen True Stories

By Yonassan Gershom

Book Overview

In his sequel to Beyond the Ashes: Cases of Reincarnation from the Holocaust, Rabbi Yonassan Gershom brings together the stories of fourteen people who, despite their memories of having lived, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876043406
• ISBN13: 9780876043400
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Are Pr
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Correction from the author re: I'm not Lubavitch

In his kind review below, David R. Moffatt says that I am a Lubavitcher Chassid. (Not "a Chassidim," which is plural. One Chassid, two Chassidim...) This in incorrect for more reason than grammar: I'm not Lubavitch. However, it is an understandable mistake, given that Lubavitch is the best-known Chassidic group to the general public. But it is not the ONLY Chassidic group -- there are many others. I am a Breslover Chassid -- a follower of the teachings of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, not Lubavitch. A minor point to some, perhaps, but an important distinction to me. Mr Moffat is correct, however, in stating that my affiliation with Chassidism should not scare you away from reading my books (grin).

This is a wonderful book!

To people who have Holocaust Memories, this book is like a candle in the dark! This is a must-read for anyone interested in Reincarnation or Holocaust issues, and if you could only read one book on this subject, I would recommend this one! Rabbi Gershom and the brave people who share their stories here have done us all a wonderful service.

Wonderful!

This book and Rabbi Gershom's first book, "Beyond the Ashes," should really be sold together as a set. "From Ashes to Healing" completes the first book by giving us 15 beautiful first-person stories about healing Holocaust past-life trauma. I applaud the bravery of everyone in the book for sharing such personal things with the public. Rabbi Gershom is much more than just a "compiler" in this work, though. The book includes some EXCELLENT chapters by the Rabbi himself, as well as very useful footnotes that he added to the articles afterward. Plus, he helped those contributors who are not professional writers to tell their stories. But perhaps the greatest applause for Rabbi Gershom should be for his willingness to share his own story, too. There are very few books where rabbis are willing to write about their own spirituality. So it was refreshing to see Rabbi Gershom open his heart and share his frustrations, hopes, and dreams. The chapter on "Did the Soul of Hitler repent?" was especially moving, and a big risk for anybody -- let alone a rabbi! -- to write. So was the chapter on "The Circle of Torah," where the reader learns why Rabbi Gershom eventually retired from this work, and how that decision, too, was part of his own healing.

Great sequel, great stories, great research!

I was really glad when this second book came out because it had complete stories written by some of the people themselves. There's a whole lot of different approaches to healing by the different authors that are very useful for understanding different ways to heal karma. It also has a REALLY GREAT chapter about "Edgar Cayce on the Holocaust" written by Rabbi Gershom that tells how some of the things that Cayce supposedly said about Jews in the Holocaust were never said by him at all. Such as the Holocaust being a karmic punishment, etc. which Cayce NEVER said! It turns out that the source of these teachings was an American Nazi sympathizer who went to Cayce for a reading in the 1930's and misunderstood it, etc. Everybody who is into Cayce or New Age philosophy really needs to read this chapter -- as well as the rest of the book.

Bravo! More real-life reincarnation stories!

Thank you, Rabbi Gershom, for more wonderful reincarnation stories. "Beyond the Ashes" was beautiful, and you continue to elate and inspire us with "From Ashes to Healing". More! More!