Personal stories of inspiration
Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser has been the spiritual leader of Khal Bais Yitzchok for the past 10 years. He is known to be a dedicated worker in the gardens of Torah.
A speechmaker and storyteller, he carries out his projects of Kirav, bringing Jews closer to G-d on radio stations WFMU 91.1 FM and WSNR 620 AM. He is the “Menahel Ruchni” of the Rambam Yeshiva in Brooklyn and an acknowledged expert on educational matters. But he is something else.
What I have told you is on the jacket of his book, just as we wear our official personas. What is within this book is riveting. In this book, he tells us the story of his life and some of the lives he has touched, embraced, or seized and brought down to Torah.
This is the tale of a dragon slayer. Unlike the white knight of old who seeks out the dragon’s lair to do battle with it, the good Rav may be seized by the opportunity to do mitzvoth at any time of the night or day, and be brought to any part of the world. He may be awakened at 3 a.m. to talk to a young woman on the ledge of a building, or travel halfway around the world with valuable religious supplies and invaluable words of encouragement for those who survived the Holocaust with their love of G-d intake.
The stories in here are all actual and powerful encounters that are uplifting. The Rav is oftentimes a spiritual locksmith, with sometimes the right word as the key to unlock and unburden the Jewish soul.
In his life’s journey Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser encounters saints and sinners, exuberant joy and travail; in the uncertainty of each day he is left with only one certitude, that it is the right path.
In this book, sometimes with a tear, and sometimes with a laugh, he communicates that surety to us.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
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17 comments:
After reading this book I've started to look after your columns and read Perls of wisdom in Jewish Press.
I have found that book in Hebrew !
Grate, you are a master of a pen rabi!
My mom gave me your book few years ago, and I still love it.
So warm and human. I whish You were my Rabbi
The book is like a fairy tale, you pull out only positive sides, that's I think your favourable result.Sure enough there is another side of coint, but to stress goodnes is a point.
how come that this particular book was translated in former Yugoslavian lenguages ? How many Jews are there ?
good that You are on earth !
how sweet, how good, how full of understanding
reading this book you can live a lifes of those people
Do you know anything about small Misha ? How is he doing and where is he today?
All stories are impressible !
I whish we had more of such books
we love reading your truth stories to our children, they have no idea how people live solitary lifes
so open to help, so ready to be support and to share a story with us. Thank You rabi
Whoever think beeing through thick and thin should read this book.
many persones in stories must be happy that you wrote about their lifes. Are you in contact with some of them ?
Not only shiduch, other things happend ih Heaven as well
real life ! Kol hakavod !
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