Overcoming Life's Disappointments - Hardcover

Kushner, Harold S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1400040574 ISBN 13: 9781400040575

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2006

Synopsis

The best-selling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People draws on the life, teachings, and example of Moses to present a series of principles designed to help readers cope with the problems of everyday life, offering guidelines for dealing with disillusionment of an unfulfilled life, the loss of a job, divorce, and more. 150,000 first printing.

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Review:

" No human relationship is without betrayal, irritation and annoyance, but Kushner makes clear that it' s what we do about such obstacles that matter."
-- "Los Angeles Times Book Review"
" Compassionate and wise, Rabbi Kushner is a master of the story that heals."
-- Deborah Tannen, author of "You' re Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation"
" An articulate, no-nonsense treatise.... A readably inspirational homily leavened with subtle humor.... Kushner's book can serve to fortify us in times of loss and frustration."
-- "The Jerusalem Report"

"No human relationship is without betrayal, irritation and annoyance, but Kushner makes clear that it's what we do about such obstacles that matter."
--"Los Angeles Times Book Review"
"Compassionate and wise, Rabbi Kushner is a master of the story that heals."
--Deborah Tannen, author of "You're Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation"
"An articulate, no-nonsense treatise.... A readably inspirational homily leavened with subtle humor.... Kushner's book can serve to fortify us in times of loss and frustration."
--"The Jerusalem Report "

No human relationship is without betrayal, irritation and annoyance, but Kushner makes clear that it s what we do about such obstacles that matter.
Los Angeles Times Book Review
Compassionate and wise, Rabbi Kushner is a master of the story that heals.
Deborah Tannen, author of You re Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation
An articulate, no-nonsense treatise.... A readably inspirational homily leavened with subtle humor.... Kushner's book can serve to fortify us in times of loss and frustration.
The Jerusalem Report "

No human relationship is without betrayal, irritation and annoyance, but Kushner makes clear that it s what we do about such obstacles that matter.

Los Angeles Times Book Review

Compassionate and wise, Rabbi Kushner is a master of the story that heals.

Deborah Tannen, author of You re Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation

An articulate, no-nonsense treatise.... A readably inspirational homily leavened with subtle humor.... Kushner's book can serve to fortify us in times of loss and frustration.

The Jerusalem Report

"

"No human relationship is without betrayal, irritation and annoyance, but Kushner makes clear that it's what we do about such obstacles that matter."

--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Compassionate and wise, Rabbi Kushner is a master of the story that heals."

--Deborah Tannen, author of You're Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation

"An articulate, no-nonsense treatise.... A readably inspirational homily leavened with subtle humor.... Kushner's book can serve to fortify us in times of loss and frustration."

--The Jerusalem Report

About the Author:

Harold S. Kushner is Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts, where he resides. He has been honored by the Christophers, a Roman Catholic organization, as one of the fifty people who have made the world a better place in the last half century, and by Religion in American Life as the clergyman of the year in 1999. He is the author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People and eight other books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1400040574
• ISBN 13: 9781400040575
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 174