Rating:  Summary: Please read it Review: Other reviewers have already given good to great summaries of this book. I just wanted to add my vote. Great book!
Rating:  Summary: Doing Well by Doing Good. Review: Rabbi Kushner's latest book offers wonderful reflections on living a life with purpose and meaning. Having had the opportunity to read this book amidst the news of terror and destruction emanating from NYC, his words become even more poignant as many of us seek to reconcile the basic human drive to achieve and succeed in a material world with the desire to craft lives devoted to spiritual and emotional enrichment. The author articulately conveys the "need to matter" so important in our daily lives whether it be in our chosen career, our relationships with family, or in society in general. The theme of this book reminds me of Victor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" in that Rabbi Kushner reminds us that a life worth living is a life filled with love friendship and devotion.
Rating:  Summary: An engaging conversation. Review: This is a great book. It's a book about what it means to live in two worlds - success, appearances, work ambition, and the world of spirit, goodness, and conscience. Rabbi Kushner addresses the dynamic tension of the two, and the influences they exert on us. Ultimately, we must choose goodness. Questing for integrity, choosing not to be seduced by revenge, knowing we matter to the world, defining ourselves by who and how we love, these are the things that define ethical morality.
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