Being God's Partner: How to Find the Hidden Link Between Spirituality and Your Work » (REISSUE)

Exploding our assumptions that work and spirituality are irreconcilable, Salkin explores how spirituality can enhance our 9-to-5 lives. Thought-provoking, practical, and exhilarating, Being God's Partner goes beyond just talking about the subject to give you specific actions to take-right now-to find greater meaning in your work, and see yourself continuing God's work in the world. "This engaging meditation on the spirituality of work is grounded in Judaism but is relevant well beyond the boundaries of that tradition."
-American Library Association's Booklist

"Provides the missing link between our everyday and our spiritual lives."
-Reform Judaism

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. (Feb.)