{"product_id":"shmirat-hanefesh-menahem-mendel-sander-9798189735950","title":"Shmirat HaNefesh: A Mental Health Guide for Avodas Hashem","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaring for your mind is not a step away from the Torah. It is a step toward it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShmirat HaNefesh\u003c\/i\u003e - \"guarding the soul\" - brings together three worlds that are too often set against one another: Torah, psychiatry, and neuroscience. It does so with a stated method and without concordism. Medicine describes. Psychology models. Neuroscience gives mechanism. Torah orients. Where these languages meet with rigor, they do not cancel one another; they fall into order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the words of Chazal to the Rambam, from the architecture of the soul - \u003ci\u003enefesh\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eruach\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eneshamah\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003edaas\u003c\/i\u003e - to the most recent findings about the brain, this guide shows that mental health, too, belongs to \u003ci\u003eAvodas Hashem\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside: \u003c\/b\u003e - The halachic and hashkafic foundations of caring for the soul - the inner life in Tanach, the Gemara's recognition of psychological suffering, the Rambam on illness of the soul, moral responsibility under psychological constraint, \u003ci\u003epikuach nefesh\u003c\/i\u003e extended to the life of the mind, and the contemporary poskim. - A structured account of the soul and of how psychological suffering arises - dysregulation at the level of \u003ci\u003enefesh\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eruach\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eneshamah\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003edaas\u003c\/i\u003e. - The modern fundamentals: the biopsychosocial model, epigenetics, evolutionary mismatch, the architecture of decision, and where free will actually sits. - Five practical pillars - sleep and circadian rhythm, movement, the gut-brain axis and nutrition, psychosocial and environmental hygiene, and the particular cases of alcohol and tobacco in halachah. - The eleven most common psychiatric disorders, their treatments, and what they mean for communal life and for shidduchim. - Fifty common myths about mental health, put to the test.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery scientific reference carries its PubMed identifier or its DOI. Every Jewish source carries its traditional locus. The reader can verify all of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA work of reference - learned, careful, and readable - for serving Hashem with a clear mind, and for standing beside those who suffer with accuracy and with compassion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMenahem Mendel Sander is the author of\u003c\/i\u003e Shmirat HaGuf, \u003ci\u003eon the care of the body according to the Torah. Here he continues his inquiry into health placed at the service of spiritual elevation.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book is not a substitute for a qualified clinician or for your Rav. If you or someone close to you is in immediate danger, call 988 (Suicide \u0026amp; Crisis Lifeline) or 911.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Menahem Mendel Sander\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798189735950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d","brand":"Menahem Mendel Sander","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50666027286783,"sku":"9798189735950","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1ae815f8-2444-46ef-b0bc-96efe049c538.jpg?v=1792015201","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shmirat-hanefesh-menahem-mendel-sander-9798189735950","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}