Welcome to another episode of Inside Personal Growth! Joining us today from Jerusalem is Sherri Mandell featuring her book The Kabbalah of Writing: Mystical Practices for Inspiration and Creativity.

Sherri is a certified pastoral counselor and lectures around the world on grief and resilience. Sherri also teaches creative writing in Jerusalem and as one bereaved mother, she runs healing groups for bereaved mothers and manages the women’s healing retreats.

Sherri and her husband Seth direct The Koby Mandell Foundation in Israel. For more than 20 years, they have helped bereaved mothers, fathers, widows, orphans and siblings who have lost loved ones due to an act of terror and other tragedies to rebuild their lives and create meaning out of suffering.

Sherri also is an award-winning author. She actually won National Jewish Book Award in 2004 for her spiritual memoir, The Blessing of a Broken Heart (Toby Press, 2003), and has several other awards and recognitions under her name. Her latest one, The Kabbalah of Writing: Mystical Practices for Inspiration and Creativity, explains how the 10 sefirot—the channels of divine creative life force—can be used to develop writing and give you the power to grow as a person and a writer. It also explores each sefira in detail and provides writing exercises and imaginative techniques to help you receive the mystical wisdom of the Kabbalah and develop your creative powers.

You may learn more about Sherri by clicking this link to visit their website.

Happy listening!

 

You may also refer to the transcripts below for the full transciption (not edited) of the interview.

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