Saying No and Letting Go: Jewish Wisdom on Making Room for What Matters Most - Hardcover

by Edwin Goldberg (Author), Naomi Levy (Foreword by)

Timeless Jewish wisdom to help you hold on to what matters most while learning to let go of the what does not ultimately matter. Identify your core values and the worries you can learn to pass up, and establish practices to help you adhere to your choices.

Author Biography

Rabbi Edwin Goldberg, DHL, noted lecturer, is coordinator of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) editorial committee on the forthcoming High Holy Days prayer book. He is the incoming senior rabbi at Temple Sholom in Chicago and the former spiritual leader at Temple Judea in Coral Gables, Florida. He has a doctorate in Hebrew literature from Hebrew Union College. He is author of Saying No and Letting Go: Jewish Wisdom on Making Room for What Matters Most (Jewish Lights). He contributed to May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism-Yizkor; We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism-Ashamnu and Al Chet; All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days and Naming God: Avinu Malkeinu-Our Father, Our King (all Jewish Lights).

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