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This absorbing volume starts in a garden but wanders deliciously--as gardeners' thoughts often do--to politics, culture, sex, and death, and always with insights that make the spade work of reading it well worthwhile. Brickner has sharp things to say about patience, memory and loss, the role of miracles in an orderly universe, and about the interplay of moral, ethical, and factual truths in the pseudodebate of science versus religion.... Good, sweaty work: All this turning of the spirit's and mind's soil yields a nourishing outlook on life. Brickner contemplates the lessons learned in the garden--birth, death, reproduction, sexuality, patience, hope--and assigns each its spiritual counterpart as he examines the complexities of religious faith. Whether exploring the nature of miracles or the mystery of creation, Brickner, as both rabbi and gardener, provides counsel that is scholarly, eloquent, and eminently down-to-earth.

Brickner contemplates the lessons learned in the garden--birth, death, reproduction, sexuality, patience, hope--and assigns each its spiritual counterpart as he examines the complexities of religious faith. Whether exploring the nature of miracles or the mystery of creation, Brickner, as both rabbi and gardener, provides counsel that is scholarly, eloquent, and eminently down-to-earth.

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