Overcoming Lifes Disappointments, Harold S. Kushner
Overcoming Lifes Disappointments, Harold S. Kushner
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Overcoming Life's Disappointments

Author: Harold S. Kushner

Narrator: Harold S. Kushner

Abridged: 4 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/15/2006

Synopsis

From Harold S. Kushner, the author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, an audiobook that shows us how to be our best selves even when things don't turn out as we had hoped--that is, how we can overcome life's disappointments.

Kushner turns to the experience of Moses to find the requisite lessons of strength and faith. Moses towers over all others in the Old Testament: he is the man on the mountaintop to whom God speaks with unparalleled intimacy, and he leads his people out of bondage. But he is also deeply human, someone whose soaring triumphs are offset by frustration and longing: his people ignore his teachings, he is denied entrance to the Promised Land, his family suffers. But he overcomes.

Through the example of Moses' remarkable resilience, we learn how to weather the disillusionment of dreams unfulfilled, the pain of a lost job or promotion, a child's failures, divorce or abandonment, and illness. We learn how to meet all disappointments with faith in ourselves and the future, and how to respond to heartbreak with understanding rather than bitterness and despair.

This is an audiobook of spiritual wisdom--as practical as it is inspiring.

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kelsey on May 17, 2019

I try not to purchase books (usually opting for the library, as with this one), but I will definitely be buying a copy of this book. I read it during a tough time, full of very difficult professional and personal choices, and it was both comforting and inspiring. Aside from the clear pastoral gifts......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on December 28, 2014

If I lived in Natick, Massachusetts, I would go to temple on Saturdays just to hear Rabbi Kushner, even though I am not Jewish and have no plans to convert. He is that good. Quotes: "Broken dreams, broken hearts, hopes unrealized should not be seen as emblems of shame, badges of failure. If anything......more

Goodreads review by Devika on July 11, 2015

This book helps makes sense of "bad things" and other disappointments in your life instead of making you fear them. It gives you strategies for working through these setbacks, so that you can have a substantive positive attitude and not a shallow one. However, as anyone reading this book would have......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on January 03, 2010

Rabbi Kushner uses the story of Moses and his ability to overcome major life disappointments to help his readers see that they too can overcome disappointments in love, work, dreams, etc. I enjoyed his ability to incorporate the life of Moses as well as many present day examples and anecdotes, all w......more

Quotes

“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

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