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Lovely Dov Peretz Elkins is a master at telling, re-telling and collecting beautiful Jewish tales. Everyone will enjoy and gain from these stories. Marci Shimoff, #1 New York Times best-selling author, Happy for No Reason; coauthor, Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul This magnificent collection touches on the soul and secret of Jewish survival. Delves deeply into the very substance of our spirit as individuals and as a unique peoplehood. Essential reading for those who want to understand the Jewish spirit. Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland, author, How We Die Encircles our hearts with vibrations of what it means to be truly human. I have hungered for such a collection and now I wallow in it! Sister Nancy Corcoran, CSJ, author, Secrets of Prayer: A Multifaith Guide to Creating Personal Prayer in Your Life Thinking 'I ll just read one story in this book is like thinking I ll just eat one candy in this bowl. It isn t possible. Each taste of piquancy and sweetness conditions the desire for more. Sylvia Boorstein, author, Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life Hasidic stories created models of virtue that inspired and opened hearts for transformation to hope and holy behavior. Professor Heschel spoke of them as stories in which the soul surprises the mind. This book contains inspiring Hasidic stories in everyday contemporary clothes. Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi (z l), author, Wrapped in a Holy Flame This is a lovely book . These stories are like marrow to the soul. They send us life, and elevate our daily existence. Rabbi Karyn D. Kedar, author, The Bridge to Forgiveness: Stories and Prayers for Finding God and Restoring Wholeness

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Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins, award-winning anthologist, lecturer, educator and author, is coeditor of the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul. Widely published in the Jewish and general press, he is author of The Wisdom of Judaism: An Introduction to the Values of the Talmud (Jewish Lights), and is editor of Yom Kippur Readings: Inspiration, Information and Contemplation; Rosh Hashanah Readings: Inspiration, Information and Contemplation; and Jewish Stories from Heaven and Earth: Inspiring Tales to Nourish the Heart and Soul (all Jewish Lights). He is rabbi emeritus of The Jewish Center of Princeton, New Jersey, and a former member of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly and the Council for Jewish Education. Visit his websites—www.wisdomofjudaism.org and www.eco-judaism.org—for more information. Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins is available to speak on the following topics: A Taste of Eco-Judaism Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul Shabbat: A Day for the Rest of Your Life Hasidic Wisdom and Modern Psychology A Tale of Two Cities—Jerusalem and Washington DC: The Jewish People's Love Affair with the Holy City

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