Big Blue Marble is thrilled to welcome Rabbi Tirzah Firestone and her urgent new work " Wounds Into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma." The event will be hosted by our neighbors at Mt. Airy Nexus, 520 Carpenter Lane - a fully accessible space.
In keeping with Shabbat practice, the event will begin at 7:45 pm with a short havdallah service (the closing of shabbat) and the event will begin after sundown at 8 pm. Rabbi Firestone will be working with Jewish congregations across Northwest Philly on Friday night and Saturday - this talk and book signing will be the only opportunity to purchase the book during her visit.
"Wounds Into Wisdom" makes a compelling case that trauma legacies can be transformed and healed. Fusing contemporary neuroscience, psychology, and ancient Jewish wisdom and values, this work provides a roadmap for Jews, and all individuals and groups with trauma history, who wish to seize the power to change their lives. Gripping case studies and interviews with trauma survivors and their descendants—from Berlin to Shanghai, Cairo to Colorado—demonstrate what Viktor Frankl called, “the uniquely human potential to transform personal tragedy into triumph.” Building on the work of acclaimed traumatologists such as Drs. Rachel Yehuda, Bessel van der Kolk, and Yael Danieli, Firestone shows how people can transform the residual effects of their families’ painful pasts and change their long-term futures.