By COLlive reporter
Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, noted Jewish psychiatrist and author of more than 60 books, met Wednesday a young protege of his – Rabbi Shais Taub, a Lubavitcher author and lecturer.
When Taub’s book “G-d of Our Understanding” came out last year, it won a glowing endorsement by Twerski, the acknowledged expert in recovery from addiction.
The two met at the Aleph Institute NE in Pittsburgh, PA, to discuss how to address addiction in the frum community and how to carry the spiritual message of recovery to non-addicts.
Interestingly enough, the two found another thing in common.
Both used to live in Milwaukee and moved to Pittsburgh because of the quality chinuch offered at Yeshiva Schools and Lubavitch Center of Pittsburgh (also known as Yeshivas Achai Tmimim).
Rabbi Twerski said that at the time he called Rabbi Sholom Posner and was so impressed by the known Chabad Shliach and dean of the Yeshiva that he moved to enroll his children in the school.
Taub says the school, run today by Head Shliach Rabbi Yisrael Rosenfeld, has kept its high standards until today. “Its was good enough to attract me to move here,” he said.
Whatever I am today I owe to the Yeshiva Achei Timimim and Nechama Minsky Highschool. I’m very proud to know Rabbe Twerski and his family from over 40 years ago
Thank you Shais! Your book and the work you do is an important step in creating the much needed awareness as to understanding addiction and the challenges that face addicts. So many of our young addicts suffer immense pain due to the lack of basic understanding and support needed from family and friends. Using your background in Chassidus to connect the concepts of recovery to our everyday life and experiences has helped many in their journey and attempt to live life “sober and serene”. On behalf of the families who have learned to re-accept their children as a result of… Read more »
It was a gr8 book!
Go pgh!!
If you read his books, you will see that he uses Charles Schulz’s Peanuts cartoon often to illustrate his points.
Really.
You are all doing an amazing job! Keep up the gr8 work!!
If you look real closely you can just barely seem it…
It’s snoopy. 🙂
Pittsburgh!
for letting me experience recovery as a Jew, a Jewish way.
what can you say? yeshiva of pittsburgh is the best!!!!!!!!!!!
for the incredible support provided by these men for people in recovery.