ISBN: 9780593421550
Editorial: Avery
Autor: Leder, Steve
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 224
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Product DescriptionNew York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller!From the bestselling author of The Beauty of What Remains, a guide to writing a meaningful letter about your life.Writing an ethical will, a document that includes stories and reflections about your past, is an ancient tradition. It can include joy and regrets, and ultimately becomes both a way to remember a loved one who is gone and a primer on how to live a better, happier life. Beloved Rabbi Steve Leder has helped thousands of people to write their own ethical wills, and in this intimate book helps us write our own.Because our culture privileges the material over the spiritual, we sometimes forget that our words carry greater value than any physical thing we can bequeath to our loved ones. Rabbi Leder provides all the right questions and prompts, including: What was your most painful regret and how can your loved ones avoid repeating it? When was a time you led with your heart instead of your head? What did you learn from your biggest failure?Including examples of ethical wills from a broad range of voices—old and young, with and without children, famous and unknown—For You When I Am Gone inspires readers to examine their own lives and turn them into something beautiful and meaningful for generations to come.Review"The is the book we all need to read. For You When I Am Gone is not only full of wisdom but offers questions and tools that will infuse your life with meaning. Rabbi Steve Leder is one of the great spiritual teachers of our time and this book is his most important to date."–Claire Bidwell Smith, author of Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief"Rabbi Leder does it again with another book that looks deep into the taboo topic of death. He challenges the reader in this new book to dig deep into your own vulnerability to give honest answers to the hardest questions in life. Through reading and then answering those questions you learn about yourself, your life, and what you would like to leave behind for your loved ones to know. A must read!"–Amanda Kloots, author of Live Your Life: My Story of Loving and Losing Nick CorderoAbout the AuthorSteve Leder is the senior rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. After receiving his degree in writing and graduating cum laude from Northwestern University, and spending time studying at Trinity College, Oxford University, Leder received a master’s degree in Hebrew letters in 1986 and rabbinical ordination in 1987 from Hebrew Union College. He is the author of five books: The Extraordinary Nature of Ordinary Things, More Money Than God: Living a Rich Life Without Losing Your Soul, and the bestsellers More Beautiful Than Before: How Suffering Transforms Us, and The Beauty of What Remains.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Consider the joke about a husband who thinks his wife is losing her hearing. He gets so frustrated that he tells his doctor about it. The doctor gives the man a test to try later in order to diagnose the severity of his wife’s problem. “When you get home,” the doctor advises, “stand about thirty feet away from your wife when her back is turned to you and ask her what’s for dinner. If she doesn’t hear you, move about fifteen feet behind her and ask again. If she still doesn’t hear you, stand just five feet behind her, raise your voice, and say, ‘What’s for dinner?’ That should tell us how bad her hearing problem really is.”So the man goes home and asks his wife what’s for dinner from thirty feet away. No answer. Fifteen feet away, again no answer. Finally, standing just five feet behind his wife, he shouts, “What’s for dinner?” At which point his wife turns around yells, “I told you three fucking times already, chicken!”Sometimes, without even realizing it, we are deaf to the people around us and it’s far from funny. This can true when it comes to children and parents. I remember when my son was sixteen and spent his summer counselor-in-traini
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