Toward a Meaningful Life, New Edition: The Wisdom of the Sages

Toward a Meaningful Life is a spiritual road map for living based on the teachings of one of the foremost religious leaders of our time: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Head of the Lubavitcher movement for forty-four years and recognized throughout the world simply as the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson who passed away in June 1994 was a sage and a visionary of the highest order. Toward a Meaningful Life gives people of all backgrounds fresh perspectives on every aspect of their livesfrom birth to death youth to old age; marriage love intimacy and family; the persistent issues of career health pain and suffering; and education faith science and government. We learn to bridge the divisions between accelerated technology and decelerated morality between unprecedented worldwide unity and unparalleled personal disunity. Although the Rebbes teachings are firmly anchored in more than three thousand years of scholarship the urgent relevance of these old-age truths to contemporary life has never been more manifest. At the threshold of a new world where matter and spirit converge the Rebbe proposes spiritual principles that unite people as opposed to the materialism that divides them. In doing so he continues to lead us toward personal and universal redemption toward a meaningful life and toward God.