{"product_id":"kaddish-by-wieseltier-leon","title":"Kaddish by Wieseltier, Leon","description":"\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0375703624\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Wieseltier, Leon\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e new\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eA National Jewish Book Award-winning autobiography that's \"an astonishing fusion of learning and psychic intensity; its poignance and lucidity should be an authentic benefit to readers, Jewish and gentile\" (The New York Times Book Review).Children have obligations to their parents: the Talmud says \"one must honor him in life and one must honor him in death.\" Beside his fathers grave, a diligent but doubting son begins the mourners kaddish and realizes he needs to know more about the prayer issuing from his lips. So begins Leon Wieseltiers National Jewish Book Award-winning autobiography, Kaddish, the spiritual journal of a man commanded by Jewish law to recite a prayer three times daily for a year and driven, by ardor of inquiry, to explore its origins. Here is one mans urgent exploration of Jewish liturgy and law, from the 10th-century legend of a wayward ghost to the speculations of medieval scholars on the grief of God to the perplexities of a modern rabbi in the Kovno ghetto. Here too is a mourners unmannered response to the questions of fate, freedom, and faith stirred in deaths wake. Lyric, learned, and deeply moving, Wieseltiers Kaddish is a narrative suffused with love: a sons embracing the tradition bequeathed to him by his father, a scholars savoring they beauty he was taught to uncover, and a writers revealing it, proudly, unadorned, to the reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n        ","brand":"Miakarts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49676549128432,"sku":"NEW0375703624","price":15.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/ethereallybeautiful.com\/products\/kaddish-by-wieseltier-leon","provider":"Ethereally Beautiful","version":"1.0","type":"link"}