Words of true wisdom are of value no matter where they are found.

The following essays have been compiled and edited by Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan based on a variety of Torah sources including Rabbi Nachman of Breslov.

Rabbi Kaplan has been a practitioner of clinical psychology and received smicha in 1983. He was the rabbi of the Hillel Foundation at the University of South Florida and the University of Tampa, was a member of the Adjunct Faculty at the University of South Florida and St. Leo University teaching Jewish Studies, and Chaplain at the Florida Mental Health Institute at U.S.F.

Faith

Silence

Joy

Simplicity

Peace of Mind

Patience

Anger

Optimism and Hope

Forgetting

Self-confidence - an understanding

The Challenge of Marriage

The Jewish Home

Midlife is no crisis

The Golden Years

For the Comfort of the Ill

For the Comfort of Mourners