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  • Published: 8 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9780593421376
  • Imprint: Avery
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $37.00

The Beauty of What Remains

How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift




The national bestseller
 
From the author of the bestselling More Beautiful Than Before comes an inspiring book about loss based on his most popular sermon.

The national bestseller
 
From the author of the bestselling More Beautiful Than Before comes an inspiring book about loss based on his most popular sermon.

As the senior rabbi of one of the largest synagogues in the world, Steve Leder has learned over and over again the many ways death teaches us how to live and love more deeply by showing us not only what is gone but also the beauty of what remains.

This inspiring and comforting book takes us on a journey through the experience of loss that is fundamental to everyone. Yet even after having sat beside thousands of deathbeds, Steve Leder the rabbi was not fully prepared for the loss of his own father. It was only then that Steve Leder the son truly learned how loss makes life beautiful by giving it meaning and touching us with love that we had not felt before.

Enriched by Rabbi Leder's irreverence, vulnerability, and wicked sense of humor, this heartfelt narrative is filled with laughter and tears, the wisdom of millennia and modernity, and, most of all, an unfolding of the profound and simple truth that in loss we gain more than we ever imagined.

  • Published: 8 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9780593421376
  • Imprint: Avery
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $37.00

About the author

Steve Leder

Steve Leder is the Senior Rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles and the author of such critically acclaimed books as The Extraordinary Nature of Ordinary Things and More Money Than God: Living a Rich Life Without Losing Your Soul. He is a graduate of Northwestern University; studied at Trinity College, Oxford; and was ordained at the Hebrew Union College. He is a recipient of the American Jewish Press Association's Louis Rappaport Award for Excellence in Commentary and the Religious Action Center's Kovler Award. Newsweek magazine named him one of the 10 most influential rabbis in America. Rabbi Leder lives with his family in Los Angeles.
Website (Wilshire Boulevard Temple): www.wbtla.org

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