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The Blessing of Enough: Rejecting Material Greed, Embracing Spiritual Hunger by Shmuley Boteach
"The Blessing of Enough: Rejecting Material Greed and Embracing Spiritual Hunger" addresses our country's descent into feelings of inadequacy and material greed and the concomitant ailments of materialism, depression, and existential emptiness. Rabbi Shmuley examines the spiritual root of America's chronic insatiability and offers philosophical and most importantly practical ways in which to combat greed and lead a more holistic, spiritual and fulfilling life.
Judaism for Everyone: Renewing Your Life Through the Vibrant Lessons of the Jewish Faith by Shmuley Boteach
You think Jews don't evangelize? Think again. In Judaism for Everyone Shmuley Boteach imagines a future in which his religion provides "a focus of spirituality for men and women of all faiths." This sounds like a pretty good future. "In some religions the purpose of life is to perfect oneself," Shmuley begins. "For Judaism the purpose of life is the healing of the world." So, in the same way that Buddhist and Hindu traditions have spawned global interest in Eastern meditation and yoga, Judaism's broad concern for the holiness of this world may catch on with gentiles. Particular traditions of observance such as the Sabbath, for instance, may help gentiles to heal the alienation and lower the noise level of modern life. Throughout this book, Shmuley describes Judaism in terms that are both startlingly fresh and strangely commonsensical, a balanced perspective that will appeal to many readers, not least those who enjoyed his bestselling Kosher Sex. --Michael Joseph Gross
An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Judaism by Shmuley Boteach
What does it mean that we are spiritual beings? In tackling this important issue, this book argues that Judaism possesses a core of wisdom that appeals to Jews and non-Jews alike, and rejects Judaism seeking piety in abstractions, in rationalizing injustice, in explaining the Holocaust away as a punishment for assimilation. He pleads for recognition of the fact that, unlike Christianity, Judaism is not about death or suffering, but primarily about seeking optimism and spirituality.
10 Conversations You Need to Have with Your Children by Shmuley Boteach
Why can't I get my child to listen? Why do I have to repeat everything? Why does every conversation end in argument? Communicating with our children. Conversing. Connecting. When did it become so difficult? And how do we begin to change it for the better? This book was designed to help parents answer these important questions, and it is based on two fundamental ideas: The first is that there are no bad children, and no deliberately bad parents - but that sometimes, despite the best of intentions on both sides, there can be bad relationships between parents and children. The second is that, as parents, we must do everything we can to save those relationships, to reach out and really communicate with our children, because it is only through taking to them that we can create an environment for inspiration and change.