Rabbi Steven Stark Lowenstein: Comforting the Afflicted
Brandon Gimbel and Rabbi Steven Lowenstein discuss how therapy and faith share a moral center—compassion and responsibility—and how both must comfort those in pain and challenge those in comfort:
“As a rabbi, I get to invoke the biblical prophets. One of the interesting roles of the prophets is that you have to comfort the afflicted, but you also have to afflict the comfortable.”