How Many Rabbis Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb - on the Sabbath?

How Many Rabbis Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb - on the Sabbath?

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- If you like Jewish humor, that is, laughter through tears, a dose of philosophy and enough ideas to argue about with your friends for a year, you might want to wander through the halls of the Westin Galleria in Houston and chat with one of the hundreds of Rabbis who gather for the annual Rabbinical Assembly convention from March 6 to 10. Of course, there's an easier way. Pick up the hot new bestseller "Rabbi, Have I Got a Girl for You!" through Amazon.com, your local bookstore, or at a discount direct from the publisher: toll-free 1(800) 247-6553.

Alternately heart-rending and hilarious, "Rabbi, Have I Got a Girl for You!" follows the earnest - if occasionally misguided - exploits of young Rabbi Ben Zelig as he valiantly tries to balance the often bewildering and sometimes tragic demands of his calling, or as one reviewer characterized it, "the cosmic collision between one's spiritual yin and his physical yang."

Anyone familiar with the work of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Saul Bellow and Phillip Roth knows that while a Jewish story may be coated with humor, the convulsing center grapples with universal mysteries of creation, love, death and immortality. In that sense, this book is quintessentially Jewish. Professor Jacob Neusner of Bard College says in his review, "The author sets out to imagine what Judaism would be like if its truths could be translated into the relationships of fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, the living and the dying, the healthy and the sick, transforming biblical narratives into enchanting events of here and now. In these stories you meet the daughter of a great theologian who dances in a go-go bar, an actress dying of cancer who converts to Judaism and on her death-bed marries the rabbi. "Rabbi, Have I Got a Girl for You!" calls to mind the judgment of the great Catholic social scientist, Andrew M. Greeley, who writes, 'Religion is story, story before it is anything else, story after it is everything else.' In that context, Herb Freed's book is an act of religion. It is not about Judaism, but it is a book of Judaism: it is a sefer."

What kind of Rabbi could write such a book? Only one who has moved from the Chapel to the Big Screen. The author is a Director-Producer-Writer-RABBI, with over fifteen feature films to his credit, including "Tomboy," "Graduation Day" and "Paradise Lost." When he resigned his pulpit to become a movie director, Dore Schary, then head of MGM, counseled Freed "not to think of himself as defrocked, merely unsuited."

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"Rabbi, Have I Got a Girl for You!" by Herb Freed
271 Pages, $14.95
Soft cover, ISBN 0-9760437-0-X: Atlas Books/Bellrock Press
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