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Title:
For you when I am gone : twelve essential questions to tell a life story
Summary:
Writing an ethical will, a document that includes stories and reflections about your past, is an ancient tradition. It can include joy and regrets, and ultimately becomes both a way to remember a loved one who is gone and a primer on how to live a better, happier life. Beloved Rabbi Steve Leder has helped thousands of people to write their own ethical wills, and in this intimate book helps us write our own. Because our culture privileges the material over the spiritual, we sometimes forget that our words carry greater value than any physical thing we can bequeath to our loved ones. Rabbi Leder provides all the right questions and prompts, including: What was your most painful regret and how can your loved ones avoid repeating it? When was a time you led with your heart instead of your head? What did you learn from your biggest failure? Including examples of ethical wills from a broad range of voices—old and young, with and without children, famous and unknown—For You When I Am Gone inspires readers to examine their own lives and turn them into something beautiful and meaningful for generations to come. -- Amazon.
Contents:
Introduction -- What do you regret? -- When was a time you led with your heart? -- What makes you happy? -- What was your biggest failure? -- What got you through your greatest challenge? -- What is a good person? -- What is love? -- Have you ever cut someone out of your life? -- How do you want to be remembered? -- What is good advice? -- What will your epitaph say? -- What will your final blessing be? -- Epilogue.
Physical Description:
viii, 215 pages ; 19 cm
Publisher:
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House,
Publication Date:
2022
ISBN:
9780593421550
Publication Information:
New York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2022]

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Call Number:
155.937 LEDER
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