{"product_id":"kaddish-9780375703621","title":"Kaddish","description":"\u003cb\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\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChildren have obligations to their parents: the Talmud says \"one must honor him in life and one must honor him in death.\" Beside his father's grave, a diligent but doubting son begins the mourner's kaddish and realizes he needs to know more about the prayer issuing from his lips. So begins Leon Wieseltier's National Jewish Book Award-winning autobiography, \u003ci\u003eKaddish\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 man's 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 mourner's unmannered response to the questions of fate, freedom, and faith stirred in death's wake. Lyric, learned, and deeply moving, Wieseltier's \u003ci\u003eKaddish\u003c\/i\u003e is a narrative suffused with love: a son's embracing the tradition bequeathed to him by his father, a scholar's savoring they beauty he was taught to uncover, and a writer's revealing it, proudly, unadorned, to the reader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/08\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375703621\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.22w x 0.99d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly Best Books\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/1998 pg. 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/06\/2000 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Leon Wieseltier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42935383556277,"sku":"9780375703621","price":17.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c2913f8c-1512-49b1-b342-3739de213eea.jpg?v=1688487950","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/kaddish-9780375703621","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}