Toward a Meaningful Life: The Wisdom of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Toward a Meaningful Life: The Wisdom of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson

by Simon Jacobson
Toward a Meaningful Life: The Wisdom of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Toward a Meaningful Life: The Wisdom of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson

by Simon Jacobson

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Overview

Toward a Meaningful Life is a spiritual road map for living based on the teachings of one of the foremost religious leaders of our time: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Head of the Lubavitcher movement for forty-four years and recognized throughout the world simply as “the Rebbe,” Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who passed away in June 1994, was a sage and a visionary of the highest order.

Toward a Meaningful Life gives people of all backgrounds  fresh perspectives on every aspect of their lives—from birth to death, youth to old age; marriage, love, intimacy, and family; the persistent issues of career, health, pain, and suffering; and education, faith, science, and government. We learn to bridge the divisions between accelerated technology and decelerated morality, between unprecedented worldwide unity and unparalleled personal disunity. Although the Rebbe’s teachings are firmly anchored in more than three thousand years of scholarship, the urgent relevance of these old-age truths to contemporary life has never been more manifest.

            At the threshold of a new world where matter and spirit converge, the Rebbe proposes spiritual principles that unite people as opposed to the materialism that divides them. In doing so, he continues to lead us toward personal and universal redemption, toward a meaningful life, and toward God.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062013163
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 05/18/2010
Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
Format: eBook
Pages: 352
Sales rank: 586,466
File size: 591 KB

About the Author

For fourteen years Rabbi Simon Jacobson was responsible for publishing the talks of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe. A widely traveled and prolific public speaker, Rabbi Jacobson lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is the founder of the Meaningful Life Center, which builds bridges between the secular and the spiritual and helps people discover the deeper meaning of their lives based on the three-thousand-year-old wisdom of the sages.

Read an Excerpt

The Rebbe once encouraged a gifted student to use his free time to inspire his fellow students to pursue not only their academic studies but their spiritual studies as well. "My schedule is already so full, I don't know how I could possibly add anything more to it," the student said. And then, realizing that the Rebbe's own schedule was far more crowded, be said, "Frankly, I don't understand where you get the strength and stamina to work as you do."

"Every person has both a body and a soul," said the Rebbe. "It is like a bird and its wings. Imagine if a bird were unaware that its wings enabled it to fly, they would only add an extra burden of weight. But once it flaps its wings, it lifts itself skyward. We all have wings--our soul--that can lift us as high as we need go. All we have to do is learn to use them."

Excerpted from Toward a Meaningful Life. Copyright © 1995 by Vaad Hanochos Hatmimim.Toward a Meaningful Life. Copyright © by Simon Jacobson. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

Table of Contents

Forewordix
Introductionxix
IMAN
1Body and Soul3
2Birth14
3Childhood21
4Education30
5Youth39
6Marriage48
7Love58
8Intimacy66
9Home and Family74
10Health and Fitness85
11Work and Productivity93
12Charity and Wealth101
13Aging and Retirement108
14Death and Grieving117
15Pain and Suffering125
16Fear and Anxiety134
17A Day of Life143
IISociety
18Responsibility153
19Government161
20Leadership170
21Women and Men178
22Science and Technology188
23Upheaval and Change198
24Our Generation212
IIIG-D
25G-d223
26Faith and Reason238
27Unity249
28Philosophy and Practicality261
29Good and Evil269
30Miracles280
31Redemption288
Epilogue: The Rebbe as the Messiah?296
Acknowledgments299
Biography303
References and Notes307
Selected Bibliography315
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