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A Gift For Yom Tov Provocative and penetrating insights on the Festivals - Pesach, Shavuos, Succos, Purim and Chanukah By Rabbi Yisroel Miller   List Price: $17.99 Online Discount: 10% You Pay Only: $16.19 Catalog #: GIFP ISBN-10: 1578191882 ISBN-13: 9781578191888 Binding: Paperback / Pages: 249 Dimensions: 6" x 9" In Stock?: YES Quantity:  1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950 Other Editions List Price   Online   Price   In Stock? Hardcover    $20.99    $18.89   YES

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Haste Makes ... Pesach
Covenant and Community
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A Holiday For Nonbelievers

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Life seems to be filled with enough challenges to spin the head, douse the spirits, and make otherwise sensible people think that the world is against them. It’s usually not, but how do you convince the “victim”? How do you determine what’s right, what’s wrong, and what’s the way to make things better?

Rabbi Yisroel Miller is a laser beam of sanity. In his earlier books, What’s Wrong with Being Happy? and What’s Wrong With Being Human?, he took dead aim on the enemies of joy and equilibrium, and helped improve lots of lives in the process. He did it with liberal dashes of Torah knowledge, insight, perspective, wit, eloquence, and common sense.

In his new book, Rabbi Miller’s springboard is the festival cycle. He delves into the lessons of Pesach, Shavuos, Succos, Chanukah, and Purim, and shows how they have things to say to everyone, every day.

Crammed with anecdotes and humor, the book bolsters sagging egos and punctures pretentiousness. Most of all, Rabbi Miller has an uncanny ability to cut to the heart of a problem, to enable his listeners and readers to attain new levels of understanding, and to help them define their strengths and goals. And he does so while showing how the Torah speaks to everyone and every situation.

One reads this book with interest and a smile. One puts it down reluctantly -- and with the feeling that it’s as fine a Gift for Yom Tov as one has ever received!

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Table of Contents

Introduction

• Donkey Lessons
• Some Thoughts for Hallel

• The Four Answers
• The Sandwich Controversy
• Free for What?
• All Natural, No Additives
• But Why Must It Be So Expensive
• Haste Makes ... Pesach
• Egyptian Public Opinion
• This Night, and Every Day
• The Two Jewish Calendars
• Sketch from Afar: The Man Born on Pesach

• Covenant and Community
• Celestial Debate
• The Limits of Being a Realist
• Why an Omer?
• The Mourner's Count
• Curious Customs
• Sketch from Afar: The Convert

• Temporary Dwellings
• Big Joys, Little Joys
• Cloud Cover
• Learning to Wait
• Four Species
• Reflections on an Esrog
• Succah vs. Lulav
• Hidden Mitzvos
• Who's Worthy?
• Unintended Consequences
• A Quiet Love
• Koheles and Succos

• Why Chanukah?
• Hillel and Shammai
• The Long View
• Peripheral Vision
• The Tzaddik's Temptation

• Mordechai's Children
• A Holiday for Nonbelievers
• Miracles of the Heart
• Mutual Funds
• Letter to a Communal Activist

• Babylonian Names