Rabbi Harold Kushner tells about a man coming to see him for counseling. The man told Rabbi Kushner this story: "Two weeks ago, for the first time in my life I went to the funeral of a man my own age. I didn't know him well, but we worked together, talked to...

Solomon says that sadness is better than laughter because a person who is always laughing is not really facing reality. A person who is frivolous is often trying to deaden the pain of an empty life. Very little is learned from...

Solomon wrote three books in the Old Testament: Song of Solomon, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes. Based on the subject matter of the books, we can generalize about when he wrote each. Song of Solomon was likely the first, written when Solomon was a...