Yearnings

Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life

De: Rabbi Irwin Kula, Linda Loewenthal

Narrado por: Rabbi Irwin Kula

The host of PBS's Simple Wisdom and The Wisdom of Our Yearnings explores life's most defining human experiences.

A perfect love, enduring happiness, discovering our purpose. Yearning for these experiences accompanies us through life, leading us to both joy and disappointment, and to a powerful vision of who we are, and who we can become. Far from being a burden, our yearnings can themselves become a path to blessing, prompting questions and insights, resulting in new ways of being and believing.

In Yearnings, renowned Rabbi Irwin Kula explores and celebrates seven of our deepest desires. He opens the spiritual toolbox of Jewish wisdom -- it has much to teach about the ambiguities and uncertainties we all encounter -- and takes us on an excursion into our age-old questions, merging ancient wisdom and stories with contemporary examples and insights. Whether it's a woman struggling with a breach in her marriage, a child wondering about the tooth fairy, or Moses yearning for answers in the story of the burning bush, Yearnings offers a broader perspective to enrich our search for meaning.

The practices and insights in this book are based on teachings that have evolved for over three thousand years, as generations have wrestled with the messiness and complexities of the human experience. Rabbi Kula invites us to do the same, urging us to seek answers to our deepest questions, to search for spiritual and personal fulfillment while knowing we will never finally get there, and to celebrate the discoveries we'll make along the way.©2006 Rabbi Irwin Kula. All rights reserved; (P)2006 Simon & Schuster Inc. All rights reserved.

in God's time

I heard Rabbi Irwin Kula speak for the first time in 2007. he was amazing, and I was moved and inspired by his talk at a Catholic religious education conference. I immediately bought his book and have picked it up several times since then, never making it through the book as I always grab that late at night when I'm tired. As I listened to the audiobook this week, as I continue to clean out my grandmother's house after losing her 2 months ago, I realized that once again I was shown that everything happens in God's time. Rabbi Kula's words in this novel were exactly what I needed to hear right now.

Great book on approach to life and community..

Based on Jewish wisdom and philosophy, the book does great job in maintaining a broad life outlook while applying biblical examples to explain modern human elements.