Maps and Meaning: Levitical Models for Contemporary Care

Index of Subjects

Index of Subjects 9/11, 94–95 A&O, 7 alert and oriented, 7, 9, 13 times four (x4), 7 times three (x3), 7, 20, 192, 214 aware and oriented, 9 new pastoral understanding, 9 to spiritual dimension, 9–10, 216 Leviticus as means of orientation for ancient Israelites, 192 Aaron, 34n, 37, 40, 55, 61, 66, 82, 122, 192, 201, 216 his breastplate, 55 and Miriam’s tzara’at, 40, 61 with Moses and community, 198 with Moses and Miriam, 40, 60–61, 165 and ordination ritual, 144 and the rituals for blasphemer and Shabbat desecrator, 201 as rodef shalom, 192 seeing the leper as a son of, 216 and Yom Kippur ritual, 37, 66, 82 Abraham, 70–71, 160 model of caregiving for others, 70–71 accessing God in the absence of the Temple, 25, 208 and caregivers, 87, 94 in a city of refuge, 213–14 through the covenant, 211–12 through cultic ritual, 28, 34 at doorway of one’s tent, 40, 121 by holding apparent opposites in creative tension, 192 on the margins, 87, 189 while michutz lamachaneh, 38–40, 49, 66–67, 71, 105, 120, 192 235 in the midbar, 37 in the midst of adversity, 42, 192 at military encampment, 28, 33–35, 38 by moving away from the center of the camp, 37–39, 66–67, 192 through narrative, 26, 208 when neurologically decentered , 21–22, 48–49 at Ohel Moed in the camp, 33–35, 38, 192, 212, 217 prohibition for those with or suspected of having tzara’at, 64 at Ohel Moed michutz lamachaneh, 38–40, 120,192, 211, 217 and taharah, 28 and the unintentional manslayer, 214–15 in unlikely places, 216 accompaniment, 145–46 biblical priest, 62–72, 77–78, 109–13 of blasphemer and Shabbat desecrater, 39, 201–3, 211 contemporary pastoral caregivers, 10, 52, 54, 71–72, 77, 86, 87, 91, 93, 110, 112, 205, 208 God and the Israelites, 25, 32, 208 God and those in military camp, 41–42 and Hebrew root, 70–71 priest and metzora, 68–73, 77–78 and the scapegoat, 37 spiritual, 49, 51, 71 of those who must spend time away from community, 39, 201–3, 205, 207–8 ambiguities, 30–31, 59, 106, 192–95, 198 and desire to assert clarity, rigid categories, 198 and holding them in creative tension, 192, 196, 208 and integrity, 192 anointing at liminal moment, 217 of metzora, 64–65, 68, 130, 142, 144, 217 priest in close physical contact with, 68 of priest, 65, 217 ash heap, 99–101 atonement as covering, 143–46 attunement, 9–10 and contemporary caregiver, 77–78, 80, 87 and “feeling felt,” 19 between levitical priest and metzora, 56, 63–64, 77 and the pastoral, 77 and the prophetic, 56, 77 Maps and Meaning 236 relation to Hebrew root for tuning an instrument or voice, 9 relation to kavanah, 10 to self to be open to others, 10, 94 to what lies beyond the self, 9, 16, 19, 76, 162 av hatumah and avot hatumah, 88–91, 179 awareness, 9–10 of another’s pain, 80. See empathy, mirror neurons axes of awareness, 9–10 change of/self-perception, 56 and clergy in prophetic role, 56 dimensions of, 10 of own values 10 and pastoral care, 54 spiritual 10, 12, 21, 87, 214 axes of orientation, 7–8 and “feeling felt,” 19 and meaning making, 26, 87 and memory, 8 and mental maps, 12–14, 26, 211, 217 and narrative, 14, 214, 217 and navigating in world, 8, 160–61 and neuroscience, 13–14, 48 and pastoral and spiritual care, 20 and processing of information, 11 and radical dislocation, 45–48, 70–71 and relating present experience to past, 8 deactivation in meditative states, 20, 49 for individual, 7, 87, 214 loosening of, 2, 10, 12, 19–21, 48, 87, 120, 192, 217 and meditative states, 20–23 and pastoral opportunities, 19, 87, 214 and potential for growth, 2, 20, 46, 49, 87, 192, 214 and religious experience, 20–23, 49 and sense of unboundedness, 21–22, 49, 192 impact on individual, 12, 21 impact on family and friends, 12 impact on community, 12. See also de-centering to person, 7, 12, 30, 45, 104–5, 123, 160–61, 192, 214, 217 fluidity of social identity, 199 to place, 7, 12, 45, 104–5, 123, 160–61, 192, 214, 217 to precipitating event, 7, 122 Index of Subjects...