Many of today’s individuals find themselves in a state of limbo, their religious stronghold depleted or diminished, due to lack of motivation or lack of realizing how to channel their energy towards a positive outcome, and a result that will bring them the tools to meet the challenges of life. Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis discusses how to meet and greet those challenges in a successful manner, in her book, Life is a Test: How to Meet LIfe’s Challenges Successfully.

Using Torah, Talmud and other sources to demonstrate her thoughts and dictum, Rebbetzin Jungreis gives the reader examples to follow, and paints a picture of how we can move towards the goals of changing our life style and our lives for a better cause and purpose. She guides the reader, step by step up the ladder of success in meeting our full potential to overcome adverse situations. She gives the reader the structure and the confidence to overcome life’s challenges.

The book is filled with vivid imagery, and in the first section we see how the lives of three individuals are transformed through Torah, prayer, Tikum Olam and a return to the G-d they felt estranged from.

Through her counseling expertise, she delves intensely into the core of discontentment. Through encouragement, examples and displaying choices, she brings a sense of strength to those who might lack the knowledge or foundation to move forward. Rebbetzin Jungreis illuminates the minds and the souls of the reader, bringing to heart the inadequacy many people feel in overcoming their fears and the often harsh struggles that life presents us.

Rebbetzin Jungreis adamantly projects how G-d is on our side, yet the burdens we bear and how difficult they are to bear have a lot to do with our own choices and interactions. She gives the reader food for thought, food for prayer, food for power and insight, food for establishing the life we want to live. She lets the reader see how extreme challenges (although we might not understand why we are put to the test), in the end make us stronger individuals, and bring us clarity and comfort.

Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis‘ book is a must have for those who feel they are floundering, and feel they are being tested by the struggles and adversity presented before them. Life is a Test is a building block to help one succeed in their goals, succeed in making correct choices, and succeed in understanding the illuminations that self-discovery brings them. Each stage is enhanced through the power of Torah, Talmud, prayer and reflection. It is more than a self-help book, or book of inspiration. It is a book where one can find the necessary implements to use on their road to self-discovery. Through self-awareness one can learn to make responsible choices within a foundation of prayer and faith. I recommend it to everyone.

Visit here for more information on Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis.

I personally own and have read this book.

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Thursday October 22, 2009 – 4th of Cheshvan, 5770