Patience

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Summary: Good bedtime reading
Review: This small book is arranged in 91 short segments--each a couple of small pages in length. I've just finished reading it at bedtime, a couple of segments per night, over a month or two. Very pleasant reading for that hour. The author is an orthodox rabbi, I believe, and the emphasis is often Jewish--as well as other things, too--but really, it's not too heavy on Jewish emphasis, and I suspect that non-Jews, as well as non-religious Jews (I fall into this category), would find this book a very good thing, too. The title tells it all: the book is about the value and methods of developing patience, with each segment having a brief discussion followed by an example or two. I do feel the book has put me in touch with some ethical issues, and some practical issues, and some just plain human issues, involving patientce--all in a way designed to encourage personal growth while also doing good deeds for others.

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Summary: Lessons on how to be more patient
Review: Zelig Pliskin is a Rabbi, psychologist and writer who writes works which aim to help us improve our lives. Very often he focuses on a particular quality , in this case ' Patience'. He writes a series of small interesting essays encouraging us to be more patient. In one the 'Ultimate Patience Formula' he tells us that if we repeat the message " I will make the Almighty's will my will " it will help you be more patient. i.e. if you view anything which is happening to you as happening because it is the will of G-d it will make you more patient.
In another chapter he teaches ' Don't exaggerate' because exaggeration will make you more impatient.
I remember reading this book and feeling that I would in the future better know how to be patient.
But today I was impatient most of the day having long ago forgotten the lessons this book taught.
Rabbi Pliskin is not to be blamed for my character faults. But there is nonetheless the feeling that ' formulas' tend to work for a time, and then lose their effectiveness.
I would also point out in the spirit of Koholet, that there may well be too ' a time to be impatient' . But all this does not take away from the many valuable suggestions in this work which hopefully will make readers have more enjoyable lives through being more patient.