Live a more satisfying life and improve relationships by giving more of yourself to others.
Who doesn’t want to be a mensch? Someone who exudes kindness, integrity, and honor. The type of person who knows what to say when a friend’s loved one passes away or how to react with empathy and grace when someone at work is being a total schmuck. The kind of person your bubbie or grandma would be proud of.
Getting into the mensch mindset takes practice. But simple shifts in your approach to everyday interactions can help you find your inner mensch, revitalizing and strengthening your personal and professional relationships and the values you pass on to your family.
A collection of humorous stories and practical advice‚ sprinkled with a healthy dose of Yiddish humor‚ Be a Mensch shows how to incorporate kindness into your daily life and help others through difficult situations. It challenges you to get off your tuches and get involved, not only to help others but to improve your own life too.
Nonfiction
Be A Mensch: Unleash Your Power To Be Kind and Help Others
September 1, 2020
Discussion Questions
courtesy of Elisa Udaskin
- Discuss a time when someone you knew was going through a difficult time (a death in the family, illness or lost their job) and you wanted to do something, but you hesitated and didn’t reach out.Why did you hesitate? How did it make you feel?
- Discuss a time when someone you knew was going through a difficult time (a death in the family, illness or lost their job) and you did reach out to support them. What did you do? How did it make you feel?
- Have you been the recipient of support during a difficult time? What was helpful and what was not so helpful, or annoying to you in this situation? What could people have done differently to support you?
- How do you manage stress and your reactions when you have a difficult encounter with someone you don’t know. For example, at the grocery store, a driver cutting you off, etc?
- What do you do regularly that is mensch-like?
- What do you do to help raise your kids to be a mensch?
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