THE DAY I MET FATHER ISAAC AT THE SUPERMARKET: Lessons in How to Live from the Jewish Tradition

THE DAY I MET FATHER ISAAC AT THE SUPERMARKET: Lessons in How to Live from the Jewish Tradition
By Rabbi Jack Riemer
Softcover, 256 pages
KTAV Publishing House, 2018
ISBN: 978-160-280-309-1
What would you say to our forefather Isaac, if you happened to bump
into him in a parking lot, and he asked you: “What’s new?”
One
of Rabbi Riemer’s congregants wants to take his girlfriend away to a hotel for
a weekend to see if they click or not and Rabbi Riemer seizes the moment to
discuss this counseling problem with Father Isaac. What should he advise the
young man to do? The answer he gets from our biblical patriarch is both
hilarious and wise.
Throughout
the chapters of this book, Rabbi Riemer relates stories found in the Bible to
the world in which we live today, with humor, imagination and wisdom. After
reading these entertaining and meaningful accounts you will understand why
Rabbi Riemer is known as “the rabbi’s rabbi,” and why people like Elie Wiesel,
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Harold Kushner have praised his
writings.
About
the Author:
Rabbi Jack Riemer is the founding Chair of The National Rabbinic
Network, a support system for Rabbis of all denominations. He has taught rabbis
all around the country. His book The World of the High Holy Days is widely used
by Rabbis and his original prayers appear in the prayer books of the
Conservative, Reform and Orthodox movements in America and abroad. Rabbi Riemer
has published essays and reviews in many journals of Jewish and general
thought.
Praise for The Day I Met Father Isaac at the Supermarket:
“Jack Riemer’s words are songs of hope and faith.
Listen to them, as I do.”
–
Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize Laureate
“Rabbi
Jack Riemer has taught a whole generation
of rabbis, including me, what it means
to speak to both the mind and the heart. He
is the standard.”
– Rabbi
Harold Kushner, When Bad Things Happen
to Good People
“Jack
Riemer is probably the most quoted rabbi in
the United States. Wherever i go, rabbis say to
me: ‘have you heard this word of Torah or this
story that I learned from Jack Riemer.’”
– Danny
Siegel, Tsedaka Teacher and Poet