Middos, Manners & Morals with a Twist of Humor

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Read and enjoy Joe Bobker’s uniquely entertaining Middos Manual, a fifty-two-week guide with dozens of anecdotes from gedolim and tzadikim that explains how Middos + Morals = Menschlichkeit 101… all with a twist of humor! The Gerer Rebbe on time management… Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik on smacking a child… the Chofetz Chaim on keeping your word… the Steipler Rav on emunas chachamim… Rabbi Chaim Berlin on hespedim… Rav Yisroel Salanter on controversy… Rav Aryeh Levin on compassion… the Satmar Rav on menachem aveil… the Klausenberger Rebbe on ma’aser money… Rav Chaim Volozhiner on anger… Rav Levi Yitzchak on loving your neighbor… Rav Aryeh Leib HaKohen on chumras… Rav Aaron Kotler on sharing… Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel on coveting… Rav Shach on giving bad advice… Rav Tzvi Pesach on self-subordination… Rabbi Sholom Shwadron on stealing… Rav Elchonon Wasserman on waking a sleeping person… the Baba Sali on the power of Torah learning… the Vizhnitzer Rebbe on sensitivity… Rav Isser Zalman on shadchanus… Rabbi Simcha Zissel Broide on personal prayer… the Chazon Ish on permissible loshen hora… Rav Shlomo Wolbe on children’s misconduct… the Sassover Rebbe on insults… Rav Shlomo Shimshon Karelitz on bribes… Rav Shlomo Wolbe on bias… Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky on hakoras hatov… Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld on the beauty of Eretz Yisroel… the Sanzer Rebbe on tzedaka… Rav Nochum of Chernobyl on humility… the Ba’al Haturim on community fundraisers… Rav Yerucham Levovitz on Torah teachers… the Maharal of Prague on kindness… the Ba’al Shem Tov on how to pick a new rabbi… the Vizhnitzer Rebbe on emes… the Ben Ish Chai on stretching the truth… the Alter of Slabodka on meshulachim… Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach on gemilus chasadim… Rav Yechezkel Abramsky on Jews hitting Jews… Rav Dessler on misquoting… and many, many more!

Joe Bobker was born in 1947 in Ulm, a displaced persons camp in Germany, to Polish Holocaust survivors Chaskel, of blessed memory, and Ida Bobker. On May 21, 1949, the family arrived in Sydney, Australia, on board the Luciano Marnaro liner as refugees from Adolf Hitler s reign of terror. The most searing influences on his Jewishness were his parents, two simple Yidden who saw over 131 family members turned into ashes by the genocidal Nazi war machine and yet never swayed from their beliefs. Their faith was clearer than vision. Mr. Bobker studied at the famed Mercaz HaRav Kook Yeshiva in Kiryat Moshe, Jerusalem. Over the years he has spoken frequently and is well known for his dozens of articles about Jews and Judaism in the 100-year-old Los Angeles Jewish Times, of which he was publisher and editor-in-chief. A prolific and creative writer, Bobker has covered a wide variety of Jewish subjects from a very personal, philosophical, erudite and witty perspective. Since 1980, he has lived in Los Angeles and New York with his wife Miriam, a barrister from Melbourne, Australia, herself a child of Polish Holocaust survivors.
BindingHardcover
Pages336
Published2008
ISBN-139789652294487
Weight0.8 kg

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