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Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.Like many people, I live in two worlds. Read the first page
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This review is from: Living a Life That Matters: Resolving the Conflict between Conscience and Success (Hardcover)
I picked this up at the Sheboygan Public Library a few months ago and I couldn't put it down. It has many excellent messages about life and living. One can see positive experiences in almost any life venture, even the scary life ventures. In his own special way, Kushner helps your life be more special when you read this book. Jeffrey McAndrew
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Living a Life That Matters by Kushner,
By Dr. Joseph S. Maresca "Dr. Joseph S. Maresca ... (Bronxville, New York USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)
This review is from: Living a Life that Matters (Paperback)
This book helps the reader in the long and sometimes difficultjourney through life. He explains the importance of strong family bonds, friendships, generosity of spirit and sacrifice for worthy causes/goals.Specific persons in the Bible are cited as evidence of the aforementioned experiences. Esau was said to be a man ruled by appetites and excesses. G-d changed Jacob's name to Israel. The author pointed to Milton in reasoning that personal revenge is sweet in contemplation but bitter to carry out. Jeremiah saved both Christianity and Judaism. After Jacob met an angel, he became "shalem" or whole. This book is perfect for philosophers, theologians. ethicists and a wide constituency of scholars in academe. This work would be very helpful for anyone seeking a challenge in understanding the complexity of the theological issues presented.
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This review is from: Living a Life that Matters (Paperback)
Kushner has written another wonderful book with piercing insights into what life is about and what makes a life matter. He uses the story of Jacob throughout to illustrate his points. Kushner discusses topics of revenge, and what is more satisfying than getting even. I thought this paragraph by the author really eloquent in showing the difference between religious people and Godly people regarding prophecy: "If the words you speak are hard for you to utter and hard for others to hear, if you get no pleasure from speaking them but you feel you must, then you can believe that they come from God. On the other hand, if your words make you popular and win you easy applause, or if people don't like hearing them but you get a certain pleasure from speaking them...then you may have reason to suspect that those are your own thoughts disguising themselves as the Word of God. When I hear politicians and preachers condemning the sinful ways of the society around them, I often agree with their criticisms but I don't hear the pain in their voices. It ought to hurt them more to condemn their neighbors..." This is so eloquent and so true. It shows that there's definitely something wrong when one sees religious people condemning others to hell or some horrible fate and not showing sadness or grief about it. Harold Kushner covers so much ground in his book, so many topics, as to what really matters. So much of it he describes as love - loving others, making a difference in people's lives, making others' lives easier. All of these things make a life that matters. But one of my favorite sections of the book was the afterward, added after the book had been out for a while. This book was originally published a week before the September 11, 2001, attacks in the USA. The author added an afterward that really spoke to my heart. It is very similar in tone to his book, "When Bad Things Happen to Good People." I found it to be very comforting and offer new insights on the attacks, the families who were directly affected, why God allowed them to happen, and more. A very uplifting, very inspiring book well worth adding to your library or at least checking out from the library.
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