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What the Angel Taught You: Seven Keys to Life Fulfillment
Have you ever asked, “What does the Creator really want from me?” In their ground-breaking book,“"What the Angel Taught You; Seven Keys to Life Fulfillment," two world-renowned educators collaborate to ask and answer some of the most compelling questions we all seem to have. What does the Creator really want from me? What is the highest class of pleasure in this world? How do I get my prayers answered? How do I know if my decisions are right? What is the definition of love? Are there any absolute truths on Earth? How does free will bring me happiness? Why was Man created? Rabbi Noah Weinberg, Founder and Dean of Yeshivas Aish Hatorah in Jerusalem, has been a distinguished educator of tens of thousands of students for over four decades and was one of the originators of today's global Kiruv movement. In this - his first book - he shares his astute and lively approach to living, and teaches us how to get genuine fulfillment out of life. Yaakov Salomon, C.S.W. is a prominent psychotherapist and accomplished author, who weaves Rabbi Weinberg's concepts into a user-friendly tapestry of step-by-step instructions toward realizing this goal. Together they have articulated a fresh and clear manual, transmitting penetrating insights in simple and invigorating terms. The result is a new approach to pleasure, prayer, free will, happiness, knowledge, love, and intellectualism that will leave you smiling, nodding, and totally inspired.
185 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 2003
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August 1, 2021
I found this sefer to contain very important ideas and was enjoyable and easy to read.
June 11, 2011
A MODERN POCKET SELF HELP BOOK BASED ON ANCIENT WISDOM
This is a very valuable friendly book prepared by the Rabbis of the best Jewish website of the world (www.aish.com (1,2 millon hits a month)), however is not religious, is a sort of modern self help book intended to transmit how to learn to find a purpose in life
Beginning chapter begins affirming that all of us, human beings, are above all pleasure seekers and intends to demonstrate how we are deluded by the idea we have learned about pleasure exclusively as a material and physical world entity
Using a similar pattern, and through inductive reasoning by way of analogies and instructive stories it moves along over following individual chapters unraveling other life key concepts like praying, knowledge, happiness, intellectuality, and love..!!!,..all of them developed in a simple language colored with streaks of ancient Jewish wisdom and intended to force the reader to exercise its mind so as to confront a previous stored old belief system sown during childhood and later nurtured during the course of human life by the ever surrounding Western culture rooted in ancient Greek dogmatism.
The concepts and ideas of this book can be also found in many of enlightening articles published weekly by www.aish com
To be read over and over again
This is a very valuable friendly book prepared by the Rabbis of the best Jewish website of the world (www.aish.com (1,2 millon hits a month)), however is not religious, is a sort of modern self help book intended to transmit how to learn to find a purpose in life
Beginning chapter begins affirming that all of us, human beings, are above all pleasure seekers and intends to demonstrate how we are deluded by the idea we have learned about pleasure exclusively as a material and physical world entity
Using a similar pattern, and through inductive reasoning by way of analogies and instructive stories it moves along over following individual chapters unraveling other life key concepts like praying, knowledge, happiness, intellectuality, and love..!!!,..all of them developed in a simple language colored with streaks of ancient Jewish wisdom and intended to force the reader to exercise its mind so as to confront a previous stored old belief system sown during childhood and later nurtured during the course of human life by the ever surrounding Western culture rooted in ancient Greek dogmatism.
The concepts and ideas of this book can be also found in many of enlightening articles published weekly by www.aish com
To be read over and over again
November 10, 2008
I think this book is excellent. It addresses fundamental questions on how to find happiness and the purpose of life in such a down-to-earth and up-lifting way. The author, Rabbi Weinberg, started Aish HaTorah and I think that he realizes that the people curious about Judaism who stumble into Aish aren't going to accept anything cheesy or affected. I personally have a hard time swallowing parables of kings and princes to explain our relationship to G-d, or character refinement books that tell us how crummy we are as modern human beings. This book does neither. Each parable used makes really good sense and explains how becoming a better person allows us to enjoy life on higher and higher levels. I highly recommend this book.
August 4, 2011
Most of the book seemed to be Maslow and muck, but the last chapters on love an unity made the whole book worthwhile. It certainly puts love in a proper perspective and shows the importance of unity in marriages.
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