The founding rabbi of IKAR and one of our country’s most influential rabbis discusses the spiritual necessity of community and offers a blueprint for a more connected and caring world.

In The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World, Rabbi Sharon Brous — named America’s #1 Most Influential Rabbi by Newsweek and The Daily Beast — makes the case that the spiritual work of our time, as instinctual as it is counter-cultural, is to find our way to one another in celebration, in sorrow, and in solidarity. To show up for each other in moments of joy and pain, vulnerability and possibility, to invest in relationships of shared purpose and build communities of care as pathways to a world built on love, rooted in justice, and propelled by our moral imagination.