Author(s): Steve Leder

Mind Body Spirit

As the senior rabbi of one of the largest synagogues in the world, Steve Leder has learned the many ways death teaches us how to live and love more deeply Yet even after having sat beside more than one thousand deathbeds, Steve Leder the rabbi was not fully prepared for the loss of his own father. It was only then that Steve Leder the son truly learned how death makes life beautiful by giving it meaning and touching us with love that we had not felt before. This inspiring and comforting book takes us on a journey through the experience of loss that is fundamental to us all. Enriched by Rabbi Leder's honesty, vulnerability and wicked sense of humor, this heartfelt narrative is tilled with laughter and tears, the wisdom of millennia and modernity, and, most of all, an unfolding of the profound and simple truth that in loss we gain more than we ever imagined.