Excerpts From Toward a Meaningful Life
Explore sections of best-seller "Toward a Meaningful Life".
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The Key to Happiness
To be a happy, wholesome and healthy person, your body and soul must work in perfect harmony. This means uniting the body and soul.
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Women & Men – Different But Equal?
What are the differences between men and women? Man and woman represent two forms of divine energy; they are the male and female elements of a single soul. Learn more in this excerpt from “Toward a Meaningful Life”.
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Education: Shaping Life
This article is an excerpt from “Toward a Meaningful Life”. It emphasizes the importance of moral education for children, and places responsibility on parents and educators for providing that education.
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Spiritual Parenting
Parents must understand the magnitude of their many responsibilities. Building a true home is a job to be taken seriously — more seriously than the job we go to each day to earn a living. After all, there are many opportunities to make a living, but only one opportunity to build a healthy home.
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How to See Your Child in a More Meaningful Way
Look at the child intently and realize: God has given you this gift to nurture and care for, to teach good habits and the difference between right and wrong. Your attitude toward this child and the sensibilities you impart will be crucial to how his life develops and how he influences others. Parenting tips.
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Upheaval and Change Part III
Unlike personal tragedy and loss, which affect the lives of individuals and those close to them, upheaval is large-scale disruption that imperils communities, destabilizes nations or even endangers the entire world.
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Upheaval and Change Part II
Unlike personal tragedy and loss, which affect the lives of individuals and those close to them, upheaval is large-scale disruption that imperils communities, destabilizes nations or even endangers the entire world.
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Upheaval and Change Part I
Unlike personal tragedy and loss, which affect the lives of individuals and those close to them, upheaval is large-scale disruption that imperils communities, destabilizes nations or even endangers the entire world.
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What is a True Leader?
What is a true leader? Rabbi Simon Jacobson explains in this excerpt from his best-selling book, “Toward a Meaningful Life”.
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Kabbalah: Uniting Heaven & Earth
The Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), and specifically the branch known as Chassidus, addresses the “cosmic order,” which unites spirit and matter. This is an excerpt from “Toward a Meaningful Life”.
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Why Get Married?
Two people may love and care for each other, but without a divine force, what is to bond temporal human beings eternally?
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Technology: Vice or Virtue
A spiritual look at the vices and virtues of technology. Is the Internet bad? Are cellphones a sign of doom and gloom? Nope! Just use tech for the good.
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The Future
The future holds redemption: Redemption is the light at the end of the tunnel. Redemption is the belief that this world was created by design….
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The Role of Government
Mankind continues to be plagued by the same basic conflict: individual rights versus the greater good of the community. The role of government is to strike a balance between the two, and yet no political system has been able to perfect this balance.
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What is a Miracle?
What is a miracle? By analyzing the anatomy of a miracle and understanding your feelings about miracles, you can learn much that will help you find deeper meaning in your life. Discuss this excerpt from “Toward a Meaningful Life”.
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Birth: The Mission Begins
Why were you born? What your birth means is that you are G-d’s child. Your birth was not an accident; G-d chooses each of us to fulfill a specific mission.
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Death & Grieving
It is time to ask ourselves: What happens after death, if anything? What does death really mean? How should the surviving loved ones react? What is the meaning of death?
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The Importance of Home and Family
When a family shares principles and values, they grow together. The home and family become a foundation for the family’s shared sense of purpose. The ultimate beauty in a home is its emotional and spiritual warmth. There are many ways to beautify your home spiritually.
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What is Pain?
What is the purpose of pain? Why do good people suffer? Are there any benefits to pain? How can we alleviate our pain?
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Money: A Blessing or a Curse?
When you put money in perspective and recognize why it was given to you, it becomes a blessing instead of a curse. And by using your wealth for charitable and philanthropic purposes instead of spending it all on the desire of the moment, your money becomes eternal.
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Teenagers: The Rebellion of Youth
To satisfy the needs of our teenagers in today’s society, we must first recognize that their restlessness and hunger for meaning is not material but spiritual in nature, and that only spirituality can feed spiritual hunger. To fight a spiritual war, they must be equipped with spiritual weapons. This is a new approach to teenage rebellion.
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