In 1960, at the age of twenty-seven, the author, Sidney B. Silverman, started his own law practice. He began by tackling corporate giants and never stopped until he retired in 2001. He was an aggressive, street-smart trial lawyer. Upon his retirement, Silverman enrolled in graduate school at Columbia University. Concentrating in philosophy, he received a masters degree in 2007. He was as competitive in the classroom as he was in the courtroom. After graduating he looked for another challenge. He had played chess for many years. Now he wanted to play in tournaments and become a chess master. Although he tried hard to become an expert chess player, he failed. A Happy Life chronicles Silvermans adventures, before, during and after his long and successful career. What pieces of wisdom can he share that will help readers to find their best, most successful retirement years? Read on.
As a child, Henry Wojecoski develops an insatiable appetite for money while working with his plumber father in a working class town near the wealthy village of Southampton, New York. After glimpsing the good life, the street-smart Henry decides that one day good fortune will be his too. Fate and a lofty dream soon lead Henry to nurture a healthy addiction to money. Henry has always been taught to count his blessings, but he knows he will never follow in his fathers footsteps. At fourteen, he starts his own company with five employees, but three years later, Wojo Services is broke. Not deterred by failure, Henry shuns college, joins the marines, and fights in Vietnam. When he finally returns homealive but emotionally shatteredHenry becomes the office boy at an accounting firm. Little does he know that he has just taken the first step down a path into the arcane worlds of high finance and politics. As Henrys life epitomizes the excesses and financially crazed period at the turn of the twenty-first century, he soon discovers that the instruments he has developed to create his own personal wealth have also helped to create the greatest recession ever known to man.
For centuries the Jewish people were nourished by the wisdom of the ancient rabbis -- wisdom that provided comfort and understanding in times of pain, and the courage to face an often harsh and unpredictable world. In our own time, a new generation of wise men and women has continued this classic tradition. Drawing on Biblical text, the sayings of ancient masters, and the experiences of modern life as well as the lessons of history itself, these new rabbis can help us overcome our own doubts and fears and live a life of true well-being.
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