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A book that will challenge people of every faith to reconcile the cares of their work and the strivings of their souls and restore the hidden link between them. By exploding our assumptions that work and spirituality are irreconcilable, Salkin explores how spirituality can enhance our 9-to-5 lives, offering us ways to smuggle religion into our workplace.
Thought-provoking, practical, and exhilarating, Being God s Partner goes beyond just talking about the subject to give the reader specific actions to take right now to find greater meaning in their work, and see themselves continuing God s work in the world.
1996 Award of Excellence, Body Mind Spirit Magazine
From the Publisher
A book that will challenge not only Jews caught up in the hustle and the hassle, the distractions and desperations of the occupational world, but everyone of whatever denomination concerned about making sense out of life.
Andrew M. Greeley, Prof. of Social Science, University of Chicago
His is an eloquent voice, bearing an important and concrete message....Engaging, easy to read and hard to put down and it will make a difference and change people.
Jacob Neusner, Distinguished Research Professor of Religious Studies, University of South Florida
From the Back Cover
But spirituality is more than feeling that you have been temporarily lifted from the mundane world. Spirituality is active as well as passive. This means that we search for and intentionally create moments and possibilities in which our eyes open to a reality that is beyond us, yet very much a part of us. No wonder many of us have trouble relating spirituality to work. If we think that work is active, and that spirituality is passive, how can work be spiritual? But if we realize that we can be active agents of God in the world, then we can fulfill some of our Jewish duties even while we re on the job.
About the Author
Jeffrey K. Salkin is Rabbi of The Community Synagogue in Port Washington, New York, and author of Putting God on the Guest List which received the 1993 Benjamin Franklin Award for the Best Religion Book published in the United States. He is a member of the Graduate School Faculty of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, NYC.
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"But spirituality is more than feeling that you have been temporarily lifted from the mundane world. Spirituality is active as well as passive. This means that we search for and intentionally create moments and possibilities in which our eyes open to a reality that is beyond us, yet very much a part of us.No wonder many of us have trouble relating spirituality to work. If we think that work is active, and that spirituality is passive, how can work be spiritual? But if we realize that we can be active agents of God in the world, then we can fulfill some of our Jewish duties even while we're on the job."
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Mysticism and Spirituality |
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412 |
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Jan 05, 2016 17:59:38 |
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Jul 18, 2022 19:22:33 |
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$ 19.95 |
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$ 19.95 |
Notes
From Publishers Weekly
According to Rabbi Salkin, the spiritual lives of many Jews are often divorced from their working lives. Salkin sets out to heal this split by using Torah and rabbinic literature to demonstrate that the integration of work and spirituality is central to the theological heritage of Judaism. The best moments of the book are found in Salkin's incisive indictments of the spiritually debilitating forces of workaholism, careerism and consumerism. In a final chapter, Salkin offers eight steps (e.g., daily prayer, making room for God as partner in success) toward restoring the balance between work and spirit in our lives. Although the book often has the hollow ring of some of M. Scott Peck's spiritual psychology, Salkin's work will challenge readers to reconsider their work as a way of being God's partner in the world.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
One of the greatest difficulties religious people face is integrating their faith with their work. Taking his cue from biblical texts that portray God at the center of humankind's work, Rabbi Salkin offers gentle suggestions for incorporating religious life into the workaday world. In addition, Salkin criticizes the spiritually debilitating attitudes of the contemporary marketplace that elevate career and consumption over eternal values. Salkin argues that too often believers allow their identities to be defined by their jobs or careers. Instead, the rabbi argues, believers need to rediscover elements of the religious life like prayer and Sabbath worship that call them into a spiritually fulfilling partnership with God. A useful purchase for most libraries.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From The New Yorker
His is an eloquent voice, bearing an important and concrete message....Engaging, easy to read and hard to put down- and it will make a difference and change people.
From Booklist
This engaging meditation on the spirituality of work is grounded in Judaism but is relevant well beyond the boundaries of that tradition. Rabbi Salkin attends especially to concepts of imitating God and becoming God's partners. To imitate God is to be one, to practice an integrity that unites spheres (family, religion, work) into which our lives have been broken. Salkin illustrates his meditation with stories, both ancient and contemporary; in the words of one Hasidic tale, we pray while we "oil the wheels." The second concept emphasizes the requirement to maintain the world, tikkun olam, and locates the spirituality of work in the construction of meaning from brokenness. "This powerful God that we need," Salkin writes, "needs us." This is an important corrective to the increasingly common invocation of an ill-defined "work ethic" that most often justifies consumerism and the dehumanization of work. Salkin suggests ways to reclaim the humanity of our work and, in the process, transform the world into a place where God's presence can dwell. Steve Schroeder --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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