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Summary: A work of beauty
Review: This is a work of beauty, both aesthetically and for the sheer love and insight found within its pages.
In this book, some forty-five extremely diverse American Jewish fathers write essays on fatherhood and its implications. As the jacket states, "It honestly explores issues facing Jewish fathers in modern American society today: challenges of balancing career and family responsibilities, intermarriage, assimilation, education, single parenting, raising children with special needs, divorce, and religious observance." The photographs accompanying the essays are equally moving.
When I first saw this book at Barnes and Noble, I knew immediately that this would be the gift to my dad for Father's Day, but I also bought a copy for myself, a decision quickly made after discovering that some of the fathers featured rank amongst my favorite thinkers and authors, including Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson (lecturer and periodic contributor to Beis Moshiach), Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (author of one of my favorite books, Judaism For Everyone), Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (author of Spiritual Intimacy), and David Frum (former speechwriter to President George W. Bush and author of The Right Man and An End to Evil). I wasn't disappointed.
To conclude with a gem of advice from 90-year-old Rabbi Morris Goldfarb, featured on page 27, "Try not to take yourself so seriously, try not to do everything, delegate, and leave a little to G-d."
Rating:
Summary: A work of beauty
Review: This is a work of beauty, both aesthetically and for the sheer love and insight found within its pages. In this book, some forty-five extremely diverse American Jewish fathers write essays on fatherhood and its implications. As the jacket states, "It honestly explores issues facing Jewish fathers in modern American society today: challenges of balancing career and family responsibilities, intermarriage, assimilation, education, single parenting, raising children with special needs, divorce, and religious observance." The photographs accompanying the essays are equally moving. When I first saw this book at Barnes and Noble, I knew immediately that this would be the gift to my dad for Father's Day, but I also bought a copy for myself, a decision quickly made after discovering that some of the fathers featured rank amongst my favorite thinkers and authors, including Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson (lecturer and periodic contributor to Beis Moshiach), Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (author of one of my favorite books, Judaism For Everyone), Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (author of Spiritual Intimacy), and David Frum (former speechwriter to President George W. Bush and author of The Right Man and An End to Evil). I wasn't disappointed. To conclude with a gem of advice from 90-year-old Rabbi Morris Goldfarb, featured on page 27, "Try not to take yourself so seriously, try not to do everything, delegate, and leave a little to G-d."
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