Steve Leder, FOR YOU WHEN I AM GONE: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Bestselling author of The Beauty of What Remains Rabbi Steve Leder returns to talk with Zibby about his latest book, For You When I'm Gone, which offers examples of how to write a will that encapsulates your whole life's story. The two discuss the impact Rabbi Leder's father's death had on him, as well as the significance of leaving words (which share a Hebrew term with “things”). Rabbi Leder also shares how writing this book has helped him grapple with mortality and what we really want to leave behind for our loved ones.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Vivi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. |
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| 0:41.5 | Rabbi Steve Letter is the author of For You When I Am Gone, 12 essential questions to tell a |
| 0:46.8 | life story. This is his second time on Mom's No Attempt to Read Books and I am so happy to have him |
| 0:51.4 | back. He is the senior rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. |
| 0:55.9 | After receiving his degree in writing and graduating cum laude from Northwestern University |
| 1:00.1 | and spending time studying at Trinity College, Oxford University, Rabbi Letter received a master's degree |
| 1:06.6 | in Hebrew letters in 1986 and rabbinical ordination in 1987 from Hebrew Union College. He is the |
| 1:14.5 | author of five books, the extraordinary nature of ordinary things, more money than God, |
| 1:19.7 | living a rich life without losing your soul, and the bestsellers more beautiful than before, |
| 1:24.1 | how suffering transforms us and the beauty of what remains. He was on last time and the beauty of what remains. |
| 1:28.5 | He was on last time for the beauty of what remains, which was absolutely beautiful. |
| 1:32.4 | And I loved it. |
| 1:33.1 | And I have to just give him a little shout out, because in addition to being the senior rabbi |
| 1:37.3 | of a massive, very highly esteemed temple in L.A., he took time out of his day to come |
| 1:43.9 | to Diesel Bookstore, where I was doing a little |
| 1:45.8 | signing for Princess Charming to come meet me. And that was basically the sweetest thing ever. |
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