Praise for Rabbi Mel Glazer’s And God Created Hope

It was about time someone wrote this book. And we couldn't be more pleased that the author is someone we trust with the topic that is most dear to our hearts.

Rabbi Glazer's personal relationship to profound losses, coupled with his religious learning and grief Recovery training, make him the perfect messenger to help get the heart, the spirit, and the brain back into harmony. When we are able to address our broken hearts with the correct tools, our hearts, our souls, and our minds can soar again. That idea can give you the hope to read this book and find the tools and actions contained within it that can help you better your life and the lives of others.

- RUSSELL FRIEDMAN is executive director of The Grief Recovery institute Educational Foundation (grief.net) and co-author of The Grief Recovery Handbook, When Children Grieve and Moving On

"Hi there, Thanks so much for coming on the show this morning. You were great! Had two people call barely before you and I had hung up the phone to say how much they enjoyed what you had to say. It's not until you talk to a an honest to goodness spiritual rabbi before you realize just how much we are missing here in Windsor. It's very frustrating and sad. We have a fairly secular to non-existent community in Windsor.

I can't help but wonder if we had been lucky enough to have someone like you if maybe our community would have been different. Ah well. I guess we'll never know. I very much look forward to talking to you real soon."

—Pam Goldstein - CJAM Radio Windsor Ontario Canada

“Rabbi Glazer’s book is filled with kindness, compassion and insight into every kind of loss in the human experience. He tells us the stories we love and shows us how to wander through the desert of loss, find faith, strength, and joy, even in our sorrow. This is a book well worth reading for all of us who grieve.”

—Kathleen O’Hara, MA, author of A Grief Like No Other: Surviving the Violent Death of Someone You Love

“Grieving the loss of a loved one is like being in a different country without a map. We lose our bearings. And God Created Hope helps us transcend our lostness while also helping us reconcile death as a part of life. The scripture references and personal stories that Rabbi Glazer weaves throughout the book provide reassuring directions as we wander through our grief. Though the specific journey differs for each person, it is through hope that we eventually heal. And this book helps us find hope.”

—Mary Polce-Lynch, PhD, author of Nothing Left Unsaid: Creating a Healing Legacy with Final Words and Letters

“[Grief] is an age-old problem so it is quite appropriate to go back to the Bible and learn from our predecessors about how to deal with the loss of loved ones, be they pets or family, and express our grief. I truly think reading this book will help everyone because thinking about the subject and your personal experience is what needs to be consciously dealt with. The memories live on within us and need to be acknowledged and experienced and the wounds healed.”

—Bernie Siegel, MD, New York Times–best-selling author of Love, Medicine and Miracles and 101 Exercises for the Soul