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The Amen Effect Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

Sharon Brous

The national bestseller In a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, what will it take to mend our broken hearts and rebuild our society?

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

The hosts highlighted the book as a compelling and beloved work by Rabbi Sharon Brous, noting it was the first rabbinic author they'd read. Ezra Klein mentioned the upcoming release and encouraged listeners to pre‑order after having read portions himself.

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Episode: ‘We Have Created the Scarcity on Purpose’

It was praised as a compelling work by Rabbi Sharon Brous, noted as the first book the speaker had read by a rabbi and one they loved.

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I just finished reading The Aman Effect by Rabbi Sharon Brous, which I loved. It's probably the first thing I've ever read by a rabbi. I'm sorry to my current and former rabbis.

Episode: The Sermons I Needed to Hear Right Now

Ezra noted that Brous's forthcoming book was available for preorder and that he had already read portions of it.

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She has a book coming out called The Amen Effect, which you can and you should pre-order. I've read some of it.

A Bit of Optimism

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A Bit of Optimism

The host highlighted the book as a guide to turning grief and heartbreak into opportunities for deeper human connection, emphasizing its focus on an ancient pilgrimage ritual that speaks to modern loneliness. Rabbi Sharon Brous, who appeared on both episodes, discussed how the title underscores that we cannot heal alone and that painful moments remind us of our need for community. The conversation framed the work as a hopeful call to rekindle the relationships we crave.

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Episode: We Cannot Heal Alone with Rabbi Sharon Brous

Rabbi Sharon Brous, a prominent faith leader, explores in her new book, 'The Amen Effect,' how grief and heartbreak can lead to deeper understanding and connection between people.

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And according to Rabbi Brouse what we need to remember is that when grief and heartbreak show up in our lives our instant can be to withdraw inwards but when life is at its most painful that's our greatest reminder that we need other people and that we cannot heal alone.

She's led faith events at the White House across multiple administrations, founded her own congregation and has a new book, The Amen Effect, which is all about rekindling the human connections we so desperately crave.

And she started to engage this guy who's sitting across from her and like, you know, light chit chat and she mentions that her daughter just got married and then she says, do you have any kids? And he said, my son is 32. My daughter's 26. And my other daughter was 28. And then he gets up and goes like and walks away to the other side of the studio.

And he said he's been grappling for two years with the question of how someone who was that vital in the morning could need to die by the evening.

And so I think that this is exactly right. Like we don't want to encounter each other's pain for all kinds of reasons.

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