Hope, Not Fear - by Benjamin Blech (Paperback)

About the Book

Written after the author's own fatal diagnosis, this uplifting book offers answers and comfort to anyone grappling with death -from what happens when we die to how we can live fully in the interim. Drawing insights from many religious traditions and near death experiences, Hop...

Book Synopsis

Written after the author's own fatal diagnosis, this uplifting book offers answers and comfort to anyone grappling with death -from what happens when we die to how we can live fully in the interim. Drawing insights from many religious traditions and near death experiences, Hope, Not Fear shares the wisdom we all need to come to terms with death.

Review Quotes

At 139 pages, without footnotes but with seven additional pages of suggested contemporary readings. . . this slender but splendid book is conversational, an introduction to the subject for the ignorant (which is almost all of us) . . . the 85-year-old Rabbi Blech writes with the excitement of a bling person suddenly able to see the aurora borealis. On every other page, it seems, he discovers Jewish ideas about death that are lsquo;fascinating, rsquo; lsquo;remarkable.rsquo;

Really enjoyed it; beautifully written and quite fascinating.

About the Author

Rabbi Benjamin Blech is an internationally recognized educator, religious leader, author, and lecturer. A recipient of the American Educator of the Year Award, he is professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University. He is the author of eleven books, including the New York Times bestseller The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican. He has written for the New York Times and Newsweek and writes a weekly column for Aish.com. He lives in New York City.