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Many major religions give the concept of a prophet such as Elijah, Isaih, Ezekiel, who saw beyond time in the Torah or Old Testament. There are many bible stories of people who had a gift of vision such as Joseph of the the Coat of Many Colors. This book is a modern exploration of how the correspondence between a Rabbi and a Psychic unfold. Being psychic is a real happening. The question is .... how can one be psychic in the realm of religion. Is there no harmony in it? Rabbi Boteach and Uri Gellar have a correspondence on this phenomenon. What is God's will for those who can see? An interesting communication on the nature of spirit.

Confessions of a Rabbi and a Psychic gives a deep insight into the thinking and lives of these two people more than any biography ever could. With each page new and ever-pressing issues are dealt with in a very human manner, making it an excellent read and totally unputdownable.

The appeal of these two unique and controversial men is greatly enhanced in their letters. Within the relationship the issues that plague their public personnas are mere events that lie on the periphery of their humble searchings. They are the backdrop for their signal concerns about how to live life honorably when humility is culturally and personally under-rated and few examples are taught or revered. Those hardly unique issues are what they seek to heal or answer in their conversations and brief confessions. It is the manner of doing, the expressing, the advising and often the neutralizing that makes these highly personal letters easy to read and relate to. This could be any two men or women who grapple with the need to be recognized. It is this need that motivates them, even energizes their work and it is also that which is part of their narcissistic pangs of doubt and shame. Both struggle with their own authenticity, that inner voice and the more rowdy and raucus voice of their public. They love and hunger and walk that tightrope of sexual as well as other grandiosities. They are human, and in them, we are just that more forgiving- of them- and hopefully of ourselves. Whether Geller can bend the spoons or not- is so much nothing and the Rabbai's Kosher Sex is what they do when they're not loving their families and extending their souls to each other. Soothing and best of all- no Self-help and no sermons.