Growing Wise

About the Book

Many books contain wise teachings from profound thinkers. This book refines our thinking processes profoundly. How? By examining Judaism's wisdom tradition while processing its teachings through our own perceptual and learning styles (values, feelings, biases, attitudes, blind spots, sensory strengths and weaknesses, etc.). Discovering how we perceive and process information, and hence why we decide and act as we do, we will realize that wisdom is less a noun, and more a verb. It is less a thing, and more a process.

Thus the process of interacting with these venerated teachings will help us to grow in wisdom.

About the Author

Howard Laibson has authored several articles in Jewish education and family life issues. He enjoys teaching adults and young people, telling stories and leading songs in worship and informal settings. After earning undergraduate and two graduate degrees from the University of California at Santa Cruz, California State University at Northridge and Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles, he was ordained a rabbi in 1981. Rabbi Laibson has served congregations in Texas, New Mexico and Long Beach, California, where he is currently the Senior Rabbi of Temple Israel. He and his wife, Ellen Goldsmith, have two daughters.