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Harold S. Kushner |
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Category: |
Religion
- Inspirational; Self Help |
Imprint: |
Knopf |
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Hardcover |
Pub Date: |
September 2001 |
Price: |
$22.00 |
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Also available as a audio cassette, audio CD, a downloadable audiobook
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From the celebrated
author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, a profound and practical
book about doing well by doing good.
For decades now, from the pulpit and through his writing, Harold Kushner has
been helping people navigate the rough patches of life: loss, guilt, crises of
faith. Now, in this compelling new work, he ad-dresses an equally important
issue: our craving for significance, the need to know that our lives and our
choices mean something.
We sometimes do great things, and sometimes terrible things, to reassure
ourselves that we matter to the world. We sometimes confuse fame, power, and
wealth with true achievement. But finally we need to think of ourselves as good
people, and we are troubled when we compromise our integrity in the pursuit of
what we think of as success.
Harold Kushner tells us that the path to a truly successful and significant life
is through friendship, through family, and through acts of generosity and
self-sacrifice. He describes how, in affecting the life
of even one person in a positive way, we make a difference in the world, and
prove that we do in fact matter.
Persuasive and sympathetic, anecdotal and commonsensical, Living a Life That
Matters inspires and uplifts.
"Living a Life That Matters is a wonderful, much-needed primer on the
truly important things in life. Many thanks to Harold Kushner for reminding us
what we should never forget: that success is not in the bulk of your wallet, but
in the weight of your character."
--Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays with Morrie
"Rabbi Kushner's new book is full of the great stories and subtle wisdom
that makes him a genuine spiritual leader for us all in a time of considerable
confusion. He blends limitless compassion with sharp analysis to offer a way
toward integrity. This is a book you don't want to put down or allow to be too
far from you in times of crisis."
--Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul
Harold Kushner is
Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel in the Boston suburb of Natick, Mass., after
serving that congregation for twenty-four years. He is best known as the author
of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, an international best seller
first published in 1981. The book has been translated into fourteen languages
and was recently selected by members of the Book of the Month Club as one of the
ten most influential books of recent years.
He has also written When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough, which was
awarded the Christopher Medal for its contribution to the exaltation of the
human spirit. In 1995, Rabbi Kushner was honored by the Christophers, a Roman
Catholic organization, as one of fifty people who have made the world a better
place in the last fifty years. His other books include When Children Ask
About God, Who Needs God, To Life, and a 1996 best seller
How Good Do We Have to Be? With novelist Chaim Potok, he is co-author of the
new Conservative commentary on the Torah, scheduled for publication in the Fall
of 2001. His book Living A Life That Matters will be published by Knopf
in September 2001.
Rabbi Kushner was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Columbia
University. He was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1960 and
awarded a doctoral degree in Bible by the Seminary in 1972. He has six honorary
doctorates, has studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and taught at
Clark University, Worcester, Mass., and the Rabbinical School of the Jewish
Theological Seminary. For four years, he edited the magazine Conservative
Judaism. In 1999, the national organization Religion in American Life
honored him as their clergyman of the year.
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