Rabbi Steve Leder: ...no one is judging you as harshly as you judge yourself

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, we’ll look at the values, hopes, advice, love and wisdom that we can pass on to our loved ones.
Our guest is Rabbi Steve Leder, the bestselling author of "The Beauty of What Remains". His new book is called, "FOR YOU WHEN I AM GONE: Twelve Essential Questions To Tell a Life Story".

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:11.7	I'm Laura Owens.
0:12.7	And I'm Jan Black.
0:13.9	When people think of what they'll leave behind their loved ones after they're gone,
0:17.6	they often think of material possessions and money.
0:20.0	But on this episode,
0:21.2	we'll look at the other more important treasures we have to give. Values, hopes, advice, love,
0:26.8	and wisdom. Our guest is Rabbi Steve Leader, the bestselling author of The Beauty of What Remains.
0:33.1	His new book is called For You When I Am Gone, 12 Essential Questions to Tell a Life
0:39.5	Story. Rabbi, we thank you so very much for joining us.
0:42.7	Oh, it's my honor. Thank you.
0:44.6	You have presided over more than a thousand funerals and sat with over a thousand families
0:50.4	mourning the loss of a loved one. And I'm wondering what impact those experiences had
0:56.0	in compelling you to write this book. Everything and nothing. And let me explain it.
1:03.2	All right. Good way to answer it. Well, everything in the sense that in ministering to those more than a thousand families and walking the grief
1:13.8	journey with them, I thought that I knew a lot about grief and loss and death and dying.
1:24.1	And then my own father died after a 10-year journey through Alzheimer's.
1:30.5	And I was not Steve Leader the rabbi through that experience.
1:35.3	I was Steve Leader the son.
1:37.8	And becoming Steve Leader the son helped me realize how wrong Steve Leeder the rabbi was about some of my assumptions.
1:51.0	And so that's why I say everything and nothing, like everything because I felt that I knew a lot
1:56.2	and nothing because there's a lot I didn't know and a lot I was wrong about.
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