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Zusatztext “Harold Kushner once again arms his readers to battle life’s difficult moments by showing the strengths they already have inside them: this time courage is the quality—the courage to change! to accept! to fight! and to follow virtue. An inspiring book for our times.” —Mitch Albom! author of Tuesdays with Morrie “[Kushner] present[s] ideas that . . . provide a different and satisfying way of looking at some of these problems.” — Washington Jewish Week “A helpful guide to navigating all kinds of fear.” — Austin American-Statesman “Rich with Harold Kushner’s honest! practical eloquence! Conquering Fear is the right book at the right time. It will ease the heart and strengthen the mind of everyone who reads it!” —Forrest Church! author of Love & Death “Harold Kushner speaks to the real questions that are on the minds and hearts of people. . . . Rabbi Kushner’s answers in this book are not glib. . . . He takes up these fears one by one! and gives us cogent advice on how to live with them. . . . A carefully reasoned effort to calm our spirits so that we do not yield to the many frightening terrors that can crush our spirits and spoil our will to live wisely and well.” — Palm Beach Jewish Journal “Filled with a great deal of wisdom. . . . Kushner’s message is inspirational and transcends all religious creeds and spiritualities.” — Library Journal “The inspirational author’s latest is likely to strike a chord with a wide range of readers.” — Booklist Informationen zum Autor Harold S. Kushner Klappentext From the best-selling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, an illuminating book about fear-and what we can do to overcome it.An inescapable component of our lives, fear comes in many guises. In uncertain times, coping with these fears can be especially challenging, but in this indispensable book, Harold S. Kushner teaches us to confront, master, and even embrace fear for a more fulfilling life. Drawing on the teachings of religious and secular literature and on the true stories of people who have faced their fears, we are again inspired by Kushner's wisdom, at once deeply spiritual and eminently practical. The Eleventh Commandment DON'T BE AFRAID They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree and none shall make them afraid. MICAH 4:4 Before I could write a book about what people today are afraid of and how they might deal with their fears, I had to write first about what frightens me. Only then would I be able to understand the fears of others. Fears can range from mild concern (Did I remember to turn off the oven?) to serious worry (She was due home at ten; it's midnight and she's not home yet!) to sheer panic (My brakes aren't working! The man has a knife!). I find myself worrying more about something happening to people I love than about something happening to me. I worry that they are vulnerable to serious illness, accidents, crime, natural disaster. To love someone is to make yourself a hostage to fortune, aware of all the terrible things that can happen to him or her. Whenever I read of a violent crime against a woman or child, a fatal automobile accident, a young person drowning, the rational side of my brain reassures me that it makes the news only because it is so rare, but my emotional side keeps saying, What if it had been someone close to me? (Even as parents fear for the well-being of their children, children's primal fear is that something will happen to one of their parents. I was once preparing a thirteen-year-old boy for his bar mitzvah ceremony, and I asked him if there was anything he was scared of. I was thinking of his performance at the synagogue service, but he spoke instead of his fear that one of his parents would die while he still needed him or her.) It startles me to rea...
