More Beautiful than Before

Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - 6:30pm to 9:00pm

Open Mind Lecture
More Beautiful than Before
Steve Leder

More Beautiful Than Before: How Suffering Transforms Us examines the many ways we can transform physical, psychological, or emotional pain into a more beautiful and meaningful life.

As the leader of Wilshire Boulevard Temple, one of the largest and most important congregations in the country, Rabbi Steven Leder has witnessed a lot of pain: “It’s my phone that rings when people’s bodies or lives fall apart,” he writes. “The couch in my office is often drenched with tears.” After 27 years of listening, comforting, and holding so many who suffered, he thought he understood pain and its challenges—but when it struck hard in his own life and brought him to his knees, a new understanding unfolded before him as he felt pain’s profound effects on his body, spirit, and soul.

In this elegantly concise, beautifully written, and deeply inspiring book, Rabbi Leder guides us through pain’s stages of surviving, healing, and growing to help us all find meaning in our suffering. Drawing on his experience as a spiritual leader, the wisdom of ancient traditions, modern science, and stories from his own life and others’, he shows us that when we must endure, we can, and that there is a path for each of us that leads from pain to wisdom. “Pain cracks us open,” he writes. “It breaks us. But in the breaking, there is a new kind of wholeness.” This powerful book will inspire in us all a life worthy of our suffering; a life gentler, wiser, and more beautiful than before.

Rabbi Steve Leder will be interviewed by entrepreneur, bestselling author, and award-winning broadcast journalist, Michele Ruiz.

Michele Ruiz is a bi-lingual serial entrepreneur, bestselling author and keynote speaker whose passions are entrepreneurship, empowerment, all things communication, content marketing, social media and technology.

Tuesday, December 4, 2018
6:30PM Check-in | 7:00 PM Program

Tamkin Auditorium, UCLA (see map)

Admission is free but reservations are required.

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