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Listening for the Oboe

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I read this book on the airplane last night. I cried while reading two of her sermons (drashot) -- they were so inspirational. This book should be read by every preaching student in every Christian and Jewish seminary. The sermons are thoughtful, encouraging, funny and challenging. By reading the sermons given over a period of ten years, along with her five year and ten year "state of the synagogue" addresses, one gets a clear sense of how this modern day prophet is both ministering to and building a faithful community.

Kim Bobo
Interfaith Worker Justice

This is a really wonderful collection of drashes by a truly outstanding rabbi. Rabbi Kleinbaum provides a magnificent model for clergy wondering how to help their congregants make sense of their tradition and of the challenges of living.For lay people, the book proides an opportunity to be in the presence of a great teacher and religious leader. Would that everyone could have someone of Rabbi Kleinbaum's caliber in their religious life!

Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer,PhD
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College