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2,300 years ago, an unnamed Hebrew sage known only as Koheleth rocked the ancient Jewish world with a critique of society that shattered conventional notions of God, piety, politics, and power. His teachings, known as the Book of Ecclesiastes, empowered people not unlike ourselves. In this contemporary translation, Rami Shapiro presents the Book of Ecclesiastes as a rational and inspirational...

6:2 There are people to whom life grants great riches, wealth, and good reputations— people who possess all that their hearts crave and yet who lack the capacity to enjoy any of it. They die loveless; and their wealth falls into the hands of strangers. How absurd and wicked a disease!1
Ecclesiastes 6:2