Reviews for What's Wrong with Being Happy: Maintaining Inner Tranquility against the Onslaught of Life

The average rating for What's Wrong with Being Happy: Maintaining Inner Tranquility against the Onslaught of Life based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-01-03 00:00:00 Stacy Hooper Artscroll's Stone Edition of the Chumash is a fine work in many ways. It combines an intuitive and easy-to-read layout with a fine selection of commentary that presents Torah as it has been traditionally understood by our sages, all bound up in a well-crafted, fine-looking volume with pages that are large enough to incorporate the Hebrew text, Targum Onkelos, English translation, Rashi's commentary, and commentaries and notes in English in a manner that is attractive and user-friendly, but small enough that the book can be carried around fairly easily. The translation is solid enough. It sometimes departs a bit too far from the literal for my tastes, for example, rendering passages as interpreted by Onkelos and/or Rashi. In most such cases, however, such decisions of translation are at least acknowledged with a note that includes the more literal English translation. The translation of the Shir HaShirim seems particularly odd in that the translation provided is of Rashi's allegorical interpretation of the text rather than of the original text itself. But, perhaps the literal accuracy of the translation need not necessarily be the end goal with a work such as this which is ultimately intended to be read in the Hebrew with the English serving primarily as guidance and commentary. The Stone Chumash, in both content and quality of design, is a good resource for Torah study. The volume is clearly designed to be read and read again and it holds up well under regular use. I wouldn't go so far as to suggest relying on it as one's only chumash, but then I'm not sure I could do so for any currently available chumash.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-11-06 00:00:00 Shawn Samuel A beautiful edition. Not being Jewish, I'm not sure what a Chumash actually is. I bought a copy of this shortly after I started studying Hebrew. For the Torah (or Pentateuch, the Five Books of Moses), the Hebrew text is on the right hand page along with the Onkelos Targum and Rashi (in Rashi script, which I have trouble with). On the left hand page, a new translation of the Hebrew in English. A commentary in English is under the texts on both sides of the page. I was surprised that the commentary included Kabbalistic ideas. For the rest of the texts, the Haftaros and the Megillos, the Hebrew text and English translations split the page in columns, with sparse commentary in English at the bottom. The Torah portion was the first Hebrew text I completed reading (I had to look up a lotta words in my BDB though.) Several years later, when the Gospel Doctrine classes were studying the Old Testament, I used this book for the Torah portion again, switching to the Rubin Edition for Joshua, Judges, and 1 & 2 Samuel. For most of the rest of the Old Testament I used my Stone Edition Tanach. I learned a lot from reading in the Hebrew and also from the commentary. Loved it.