Orthodox

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The name Rabbi Yissocher Frand has become synonymous with eloquence, humor, passion, sensitivity, and Torah scholarship. His lectures and cassettes have been enthusiastically received, from Melbourne to Johannesburg to Jerusalem -- and countless points in between. A native of Seattle and a rosh yeshiva at Ner Israel in Baltimore, Rabbi Frand brings broad experience, incisive perception, and intuitive understanding to the task of analyzing people’s everyday lives and highest aspirations through the prism of the Torah. Does he succeed? Ask the thousands of people who throng to his lectures and make his cassettes an indispensable part of their daily commute or household chores. Rarely does any person so capture the imagination of so many different kinds of audiences. In this book, the genius of Rabbi Frand is captured between the covers of a book for the first time. And the transition from the spoken to the printed word is accomplished with all the skill one expects from a consummate thinker and teacher. In this volume, Rabbi Frand deals with a wide variety of topics, all of them of significant interest to thinking men and women everywhere. He is phenomenally skilled at dealing idealistically yet realistically with the delicate balance between modern life and eternal values. The family, business life, women in the market place and the home, personal growth -- the list of topics in this book is universal, so important, so crucial, so perplexing. Like a symphony in the hands of a virtuoso, these many strands of life in a complex society take shape and clarity through the mind and pen of Rabbi Frand. This book will be well-thumbed, frequently read and enjoyed and discussed. At long last -- Rabbi Frand: In Print! It’s a welcome event, indeed.