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Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take

Twelve Jewish Steps to Recovery

Kerry M. Olitzky · 1991
80/100
👍 Worth It

A genuinely necessary book that has earned its three decades in print by meeting a real unmet need — Jewish people navigating twelve-step recovery who cannot get past the Christian linguistic scaffolding of the original steps. Rabbi Olitzky and Dr. Copans integrate Torah and rabbinic sources naturally rather than as decoration, and reader responses confirm it works in practice. Essential for its intended audience; of limited utility outside it.

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safety90
substance82
craft78
originality85
accuracy80
hype65
age-fit80
human-eye78
Penny’s verdict80
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