Straightforward wisdom –
A healing voice genuinely attuned to our times.


Highlights

Rabbi Harold Kushner is a captivating speaker with uplifting messages about life and work that inspire us to get more involved in the world and in our own lives.

Sympathetic, anecdotal and commonsensical, Rabbi Kushner’s work rejuvenates the human spirit, comforts the soul and guides us toward lives and choices that mean something.

In his talks and through his writings, Rabbi Kushner discusses loss, grief, crises of faith—the moral and spiritual complications of ordinary life—with the incomparable warmth and wisdom that has turned his book, When Bad Things Happen to Good People, into an international bestseller.

The book has been translated into twelve languages and was selected as one of the ten most influential books by members of the Book of the Month Club.

His book, Overcoming Life’s Disappointments, shows us how to be our best selves even when things don’t turn out as we had hoped.

Rabbi Kushner's most recent book is Conquering Fear: Living Boldly in an Uncertain World.

Rabbi Kushner’s books and talks combine compassion with deep and straightforward wisdom in a healing voice that’s genuinely attuned to our times.

Overcoming Life’s Disappointments

Rabbi Kushner uses the towering yet sympathetic figure of Moses as his model of how to deal with the problems we encounter in life.

Moses is the man on the mountaintop to whom God speaks with unparalleled intimacy, and he leads his people out of bondage. But he is also deeply human, someone whose soaring triumphs are offset by frustration and longing: his people ignore his teachings, he is denied entrance to the Promised Land, his family suffers. But he overcomes.

From the life of Moses, Rabbi Kushner gleans principles that can help us overcome, as well. Through the example of Moses’ remarkable resilience, we learn how to weather the disillusionment of dreams unfulfilled, the pain of a lost job or promotion, a child’s failures, divorce or abandonment, and illness. We learn how to meet all disappointments with faith in ourselves and the future, and how to respond to heartbreak with understanding rather than bitterness and despair.

This is a book of spiritual wisdom—as practical as it is inspiring.

Topic

What to do with the rest of your life

How can we live so that we can be confident of leaving behind a sense that we have made a difference to other people? How can we know that we have used our time on earth as wisely as possible? What traps do we need to avoid and what values do we need to cling to? In his presentation, Rabbi Kushner helps the members of audience answer these questions with the wisdom and insight that have made his book bestsellers for decades.

Rabbi Kushner’s Other Books

Rabbi Kushner’s most recent book, The Lord Is My Shepherd, is a healing meditation on the Bible’s most consoling psalm.

In Living a Life That Matters, Rabbi Kushner points to friendship, family and acts of generosity and self-sacrifice as the path to a truly successful and significant life.

How Good Do We Have To Be? invokes the power of acceptance and forgiveness as a way to overcome the preoccupation with perfection and self-image.

Books

Conquering Fear: Living Boldly in an Uncertain World

Overcoming Life’s Disappointments

The Lord is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm

Living a Life That Matters: Resolving the Conflict Between Conscience and Ambition

How Good Do We Have to Be? A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

When All You Ever Wanted Isn’t Enough: The Search for a Life That Matters

When Children ask about God: A Guide for Parents Who Don’t Always Have All the Answers

To Life! A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking

Who Needs God?