Earning a Living, Earning a Life: Rebbe Nachman on Why We Work by Chaim Kramer

Feldheim. New. When Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, they were given the curse of work: "By the sweat of your brow, you will eat bread" (Genesis 3:19) Adam sinned and mankind must suffer, from the very beginning of time God knows the future, so is this what the world was created for? To toil as a curse? Is this God's way, to punish Adam, an individual, by forcing all his billions and trillions of descendants to slave away at earning a living? Or is there some hidden message in this story? Is there a way to alleviate the pain of this toil? And perhaps most importantly, is there a possibility that work can be transformed into a blessing?

Earning a Living, Earning a Life answers these questions along with many others, including: Why must we work? What was the purpose of the curse and how does our work rectify Adam's sin? What do any of us gain by this toil? How we can rise above the mundane even while engaged in it?