商品簡介
A profoundly inspiring yet practical guide to well-being from one of modern Judaism's most beloved sages.
As a congregational rabbi for half a century and the best-selling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People and thirteen other books on faith, ethics, and how to apply the timeless wisdom of religious thought to everyday challenges, Harold S. Kushner has proven his understanding of what it means to live a good life. In this compassionate new work, Kushner distills nine essential lessons from the sum of his teaching, study, and experience, offering a lifetime's worth of spiritual food for thought, pragmatic advice, inspiration for a more fulfilling life, and strength for trying times. With fresh, vital insight into everything from belief ("there is no commandment in Judaism to believe in God") to conscience (the Garden of Eden story as you've never heard it) to mercy ("forgiveness is a favor you do yourself, not a favor to the person who offended you"), grounded in Kushner's brilliant readings of scripture, history, and popular culture,Nine Essential Things I've Learned About Life is the capstone to Kushner's luminous oeuvre.
作者簡介
HAROLD S. KUSHNER is rabbi laureate of Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts, having long served that congregation. He is best known as the author ofWhen Bad Things Happen to Good People. In 1995, he was honored by the Christophers, a Roman Catholic organization, as one of fifty people who have made the world a better place in the past half century, and in 1999, the national organization Religion in American Life honored him as their clergyman of the year. This is his fourteenth book.
