- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd; New edition edition (13 Feb 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743234774
- ISBN-13: 978-0743234771
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #61 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Judaism > Jewish Life
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The author, a Rabbi, contends that religious commitment can be accessible and attractive to everyone, regardless of how they live or what their religious convictions are. He does not attempt to "prove" God's existence, nor does he make a case for any particular religious group, instead he writes simply and gracefully about the need to make sense of our lives, about loneliness, guilt, reassurance, the intuitive belief that life is sacred, the need to make a dfference and most importantly about the times when we have spent our love, strength and compassion on others, exhausted our resources and risk running dry. It is then, the author writes, that religious faith will renew, refresh and replenish us. Rabbi Kushner has also written "When All You Have Always Wanted is Not Enough" and "When Bad Things Happen to Good People".
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some people can create lives of holiness all by themselves, the way Mozart could create immortal music without taking piano lessons, but that most of us need a structure and the company of other people to do it. Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I like Kushner because he's accessible and engaging - a bit of a Jewish CS Lewis. I agree with his main point that we need God because we can't really manage on our own. Life is so tough sometimes you've got to turn to a 'higher power' for health and strength. As a speechwriter I like to copy out some of his stories and quotations - like 'no man loves his alarm clock'. My girlfriend picked up the book and thought he was a genius. I read it in a week picking it up at intervals.
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A Refreshing Perspective
17 Jun 2000
Format:Paperback
Kushner creates an understanding for the existence of G-d that is both thought-provoking and inspiring. By taking a leisure and open-minded approach to an often troubling and problematic subject, he makes the rationalization of a higher being both logical, and easy to accept. Most important, Kushner makes us believe that we truly are not alone, no matter our individual circumstances. An eye-opening read for the secular, and religious alike. Words to live by. We shall never forget.
23 of 26 people found the following review helpful
It Is "Full of Sky"...
25 Aug 2000
Format:Paperback
....I hide nothing about my search for spiritual awareness. If you've followed along some of the book reviews I've done in Amazon.com--and other places, because I do write articles under psuedonyms in other venues--you would know I've read a lot in the religious and spiritual and philosophical arena. Rabbi Kushner has written many books on how modern folks could cope in today's trials and tribulations starting with the great "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" which, in my estimation, still is one of the best books on the searching I have ever read.
This book, "Who Needs God" is written for those who are too-- should I say 'distracted' by everything to find the love God gives us through the fellowshipping and community of churches, and a hope that can be strenghtened by belief in and awareness of someone greater than our poor selves. Kushner writes passages that are sheer beauty...in a chapter entitled "Can Modern People Pray" he says Psalm 73 is a "Spiritual Masterpiece" in which the author comes to experience God and "in the light of that experience, all doubt, all philosophical and intellectual questions melt away" and "once we have tasted the prescence of God, we will no longer envy the wicked..."
I cannot adequately describe how stirring and how helpful this book has been for me. It is has been a lifechanging expeience for me. You will have to get it and read it to find out for yourself..
The "full of sky" quote comes from Kushner's introduction in a fable about a Sky Maiden who leaves her earth-husband after he's opened the box she asked him not to...it was to the husband empty, but to the Maiden, it was full of that which she came to know and love from her celestial existence....
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Who Needs G-d
13 Jun 2001
Format:Paperback
Well, I have to let you know that I had some difficulty getting into this book. That lasted all the way through the introduction. The only reason I gave this book four stars was that I had some difficulty following the author's train of thought at times. I am reading the book for the second time. I have found this book excellent for focusing on my own doubts on being Jewish and my relationship or lack there of between myself and G-d. This book provided the perspective I needed to reach inside and think of my own needs and the needs that G-d may have for me. This book is a great read and one that you will like to own.
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