📖 Jewish Science and Health: Textbook of Jewish Science, by Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein (Society of Jewish Science 1925)

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Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) and Morris Lichtenstein

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Jewish Science movement

Jewish Science and Health: Textbook of Jewish Science (1925) presents the philosophy and practice of Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein’s “Jewish Science movement” (an uncoordinated response to the then popular Christian Science movement), which he also referred to as “Applied Judaism.” Rabbi Lichtenstein emphasized the efficacy of visualization in the practice of prayer, and lacking that, the use of affirmations.

The innovation of this work is that, as an instructional manual, it is oriented to a personal practice rather than communal or ceremonial use. While scriptural verses and affirmation formulas are provided for practice, the work provides a theoretical basis for the efficacy of prayer as a personal activity engaged in private. Although the work lacks any annotation or any citation references, it pioneered a non-denominational and individually-oriented approach that later teachers, such as Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, developed later on in presenting the meditative and prayer practices of earlier ḳabbalists and ḥasidic teachers.

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Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

Aharon Varady, founding director of the Open Siddur Project, is a copyright researcher and amateur book scanner. He prepares digital images and new digital editions of prayer books and related works in the Public Domain in order to make their constituent parts (prayers, translations, annotations, etc.) publicly accessible for collaborative transcription by project volunteers. (In some cases, he finds existing digital editions prepared by others that require correction and reformatting.) If you appreciate his efforts, please send him a kind note or contribute to his patreon account.

Morris Lichtenstein

Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein (1889–1938) was the founder of the Society of Jewish Science. Born in Lithuania, he later moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he was ordained at Hebrew Union College in 1916, becoming the first Eastern European student to ever study at the institution. Lichtenstein served as a rabbi in Amsterdam, Troy, and New York City, where he received a masters degree in Psychology from Columbia University in 1919. He briefly served a congregation in Athens, Georgia before moving back to New York to marry Tehilla Hirshenson in 1920. Together they founded the Society of Jewish Science in the early 1920s.

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