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Everything struck hard. The door slamming behind me in the black car. Theshovel stabbing the mound of soil. The wooden box hitting the floor of the pit.Beside his fathers grave a diligent but doubting son begins the mournerskaddish and realizes he needs to know more about the prayer issuing from hislips. So begins Leon Wieseltiers highly acclaimend Kaddish the spiritualjournal of a man commanded by Jewish law to recite a prayer three times dailyfor a year and driven by the ardor of inquiry to explore its origins. Here isone mans urgent exploration of Jewish lituragy and law from the 10thcenturylegend of a wayward ghost to the speculations of medieval scholars on the griefof God to the perplexities of a modern rabbi in the Kovno ghetto. Here too is amourners unmannered response to the questions of fate freedom and faithstirred in deaths wake. Lyric learned and deeply moving wieseltiersKaddish is a narrative suffused with love a sons embracing the traditionbequeathed to him by his father a scholars savoring the beauty he was taughtto uncover and a writers revealing it proudly unadorned to the reader. «
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