Rabbi Abraham Twerski's Copious Blessings
Rabbi Abraham Twerski’s Copious Blessings The trailblazing rabbi died at the age of 90, a week after publishing his 90th book. Several months after becoming director of the department of psychiatry at Pittsburgh’s St. Francis hospital, founded and run by the Sisters of St. Francis, Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski was summoned to meet the bishop. Bishop Wright wanted Rabbi Twerski (whom he would always call Rabbi despite his medical credentials) to counsel the nuns who were having trouble adjusting to the liberalization of the convent by Vatican II. After a long conversation discussing the pr...