Neshama's stories and snippets are overflowing with realness and honesty, There is no pretense here, no false modesty nothing but her everyday AND extraordinary musings about life and love and fear and disappointment and sadness and joy and reflection.
Read this book and you'll want to gift it to your very best friends and perhaps to your notsogood friends, too, Full of Wonderful Life Lessons and a Great Read
Recipes for a Sacred Life really is full of “timeless wisdom, ” The thoughtprovoking short stories made me reflect on how I can sometimes change my own perspective in order to find more happiness and serenity, The author is not at all preachy and the true stories made for a lovely readI didnt feel like I was working hard to receive the authors message, I learned some good life lessons that Ill keep with me forever,
I highly recommend this book even to people who say they dont like this genre, The world is tough, especially now, and its up to each of us to make the best of it, This book will help you do just that, I THOUGHT THIS GANA BE A COOKBOOK BUT HAD SOO MUCH MORE
PAGES OF CULTURE EDUCATION AND FAMILY TRADITIONS!!THIS BOOK ABOUT LOVE THE HEART BREAK OF DIVORCE CHILDREN GRANDCHILDREN AND MOVING STATE TO STATE AND HER LIVE THERE!!LOVED THE BLACK AND WHITE CRYSTAL CLEAR POLORID PICTURES WOULD HAVE LOVED TO SEE A RECIPE OR TWO IN THE BOOK THOUGH!!
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY How can so much wisdom, warmth, honesty, fun, compassion, and a realistic love for human nature be found in such abundance in one book Rivvy Neshama has succeeded in doing just that in her RECIPES FOR A SACRED LIFE.
These intensely personal stories reveal the sacred in the everyday with charm and poignancy, They give fresh insight into family, nature, ritual, making love, celebration, friendship and forgiveness from a rich variety of perspectivesHuichol, Sufi, Jewish, and Californian! Particular favorites of mine were "Grateful in Harlem," "Miracles to Share," and "Tea and Compassion.
" Neshama's candor and sense of humor, especially about her own quirks and foibles, keep the stories from sounding preachy, I treasure this very well written book and look forward to giving and recommending it others,
If this book had not been sent to me in the hopes of my reviewing it then I probably would never have read it, I don't want to say that this book is not in my standard wheel house of books as I have expanded my book collection on what I will read but still this is not the book I would have first chosen.
However I found myself drawn to this book and thus am happy I did take a chance on it,
I know this book is probably meant to be read and savored in little bits with each lesson to be reflected on but I read this book as a memoir with reading all of the lessons.
Now that I have, I can go back and reread the lessons one by one, Rivvy shares some good lessons that everyone can use in their lives, The stories were good as well, I'm not normally a reader of spiritual or selfhelp books, but a free review copy of Recipes for a Sacred Life: True Stories and a Few Miracles by Rivvy Neshama landed in my iPad so I read it.
I'm delighted I did. Ms. Neshama thoughtfully and playfully wrote about small life experiences from which she learned big lessons about love, marriage, happiness, gratitude, letting go, living and dying, and much more, In each very short chapter, she tells a story from her real life and shares the lesson she learned from it without hitting the reader over the head with her message.
Recipes for a Sacred Life would be a perfect choice for opening randomly in the morning to find a lesson to guide your day, a thought to focus on as you went about your usual routine, or perhaps a suggestion for getting you out of your rut.
This little book is full of great ideas and practical suggestions, I'm grateful to have read it, Winner ofnational awards, “Recipes for a Sacred Life left us moved and changed, Wise, poignant, funny, and inspiring, ” Redbook, Book Club Pick of the Month
On a dark winter night with little to do, Rivvy Neshama took a Find Your Highest Purpose quiz.
And the funny thing was, she found it: to live a sacred life, Problem was, she didnt know how,
But in the weeks and months that followed, she began to remember and encounter all the people and experiences that are featured in this book from her fathers jokes to her mothers prayers, from Billie in Harlem to a stranger in Salzburg, and from warm tortillas to the humble oatmeal.
Each became a story, like a recipe passed down, beginning with Neshamas mom and her simple toast to life,
Neshamas true tales, a memoir of sorts, are filled with love, warmth, and timeless wisdom, They ground us, and they lift us up, They make us laugh, and they make us cry, And most of all, they connect us more deeply with the grace and meaning of our lives,
“Exquisite storytelling, Written in the spirit of Anne Lamott or Elizabeth Gilbert, Neshamas stories and a few miracles are uplifting, witty, and wise, ” Publishers Weekly A book full of little nuggets of wisdom, truth and love, Rivvy shares funny, warm and uplifting insight into looking at life through a lens of compassion, gratitude and humor, Im not much for selfhelp books, however in reading this book, I gained insight into looking at life, everyday life, the simplicity of life, with a new sense of being.
“Today is a good day to die, and today is a good day to live” I dare you to read just one,
I fell in love with so many of these stories, and their characters, that while I intended to parse the read out over several weeks, like a great box of chocolates, I couldn't stop.
I couldn't put it down, as I entered an enchanted world, that I came to see was my very own, right in front of me, Delightful.
A perfect book to remind a person about how little moments can and will become small salvation, I enjoyed reading this. Such a inspirational book to see lifes little things as the most important aspects of our lives, Each of which create recipes for a sacred life, “Good day, be grateful. Bad day, be graceful. ”
Recipes for a Sacred Life: True Stories and a Few Miracles is a wonderful and inspiring way to learn timeless wisdom,
Rivvys work is a guide to joy, inner peace, and everything else in between!
A mustread book for those looking to live in alignment with the heart Ive read a great many of these
books of little meditations on life.
Anne Lamott, Shauna Niequist, Abigail Thomas are all notables in this category, Rivvy Neshamas book is a notable contender in this field, Her essays are well written, interesting, and authentic in their recognition of bad days as well as good ones, A gentle and heartful remembrance, with words of wisdom to keep in mind along your own journey, The experiences shared in this book will resonate with daughters, mothers, and grandmothers, It contains poetry, photos, quotes from different religious texts, and personal stories collected by the author over time, She put these words into the world with the hope they'd be a guide to living joyfully and finding meaning, A thoughtful, encouraging, and lovely work that felt like a gift from one generation of women to another, Soulnourishing
It took me a while to warm up to this bookit consists of short chapters which each reflect on an aspect of life, But it was an enjoyable read and worth my time, I loved "Recipes for a Sacred Life: True Stories and a Few Miracles" by Rivvy Neshama, You know how it is when you go to a restaurant and look through their menu and you're drawn to the variety of appetizers for dinner instead of having a one course meal This is how I felt about Neshama's delightful book.
Instead of one long book about how a sacred life should look, Nehama offers these beautiful, small moments from her own life that are presented throughout the book, shedding insights into how she came to recognize the sacred in all of life.
Perhaps what I found most appealing was her honesty in allowing her true emotions to surface in any given situation, I think we are often under the impression that in order to live a sacred life, one must be "happy" all of the time instead of being truthful in how we really feel.
Neshama helps to dispel this notion, Beautifully written and thoughtprovoking, "Recipes for a Sacred Life" will leave you feeling like Neshama is a new close friend, sharing her humor, wit, and wisdom with you and your own sacred life.
A lovely book to be read through, dogeared, and enjoyed many times, Recommended. .