ISBN: 0-88739-477-9
140 pp.
Size: 5 x 8
Paperback Original
Price: $13.95
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Last Rebbe of Bialystok, The
Neil M. Levy
"Some say the Last Rebbe of Bialystok died as a young man in the Treblinka death camp." So begins this soulful rendering from Neil Levy. A sort of gestalt of the legendary figure, this volume traces the rebbe's thoughts on each parashah of the Torah. The author has collected these fables from such far-flung locations as New York, Tel Aviv, Prague and, amazingly, the Cook Islands of the South Pacific. The Last Rebbe of Bialystok emerges as a figure of profound wisdom, reflecting upon the questions of his disciples with clarity, reason and conviction.
Excerpt from The Last Rebbe of BialystokThe Rebbe once visited an old man who was near to death. The man told the Rebbe that he was not prepared to die. The Rebbe asked him whether he had enjoyed his life and the man answered that he had a wonderful family, good friends and sufficient money to be comfortable.
The Rebbe answered, "That does not matter now. Who is ever ready to awake from a dream?"
Review: "[The Last Rebbe of Bialystok] challenges our assumptions about the text and opens us to new ways of seeing the sacred."
-Rivkah M. Walton, founding director of the Institute of Contemporary Midrash
Bio: NEIL M. LEVY is a professor of Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco.
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