Steve Leder, Senior Rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple, one of (if not the) largest Jewish congregations in the United States, has written a new book, “The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift” (Avery Books) that is about death and how acknowledging and facing our own mortality can make for a richer life.
With this book, Leder continues on his path of writing about the beauty and spiritual dimension of the most mundane of human experiences. From his first bo…