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The Rabbi on Forty-Seventh Street

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Dear Ann July 14, 2007

One day I came home late and tired. My wife shared with me a book. I read a page, then another and now I can't wait to get home from work, no matter how late and tired, and read it.
The other day I went to work with subway (ugh!). The only consolation that I could read your book that I can't when I use my usual mean of transportation - my car.

Do you want more compliments! In our weekend house I was re-reading Hemingway (Snows of Kilimandjaro) and Fitzgerald (Rich Boy) and I put them away, so much is captivating and engaging is your book.

Another compliment?! I am about to order few copies of your book from Amazon. Com for my shwester and some other friends.

We all have relatives like the Atlanta uncle, Esther Fenstermacher in Chicago. We all have expectations from our superiors that they will recognize us, like rabbi Lekhem or from America (the Golden Medina) and its disappointments. But that is not why I love the book. The way it is written it expresses and captures the quintessential Jewish humor, reminiscent of my esteemed Shalom Aleichem, the tragedies we have lived and endured and yet found a way to laugh about it. We then say a prayer, bless the bread and salt, add "Let us not know any worse", "Lets meet nur af simchas".

Yesterday I took a bus to go to our weekend house. I had an iPod with me (that modern tchachkala you can listen to recorded music with). I said : " Let me read the book and listen to Yiddish songs!". I'll tell you, between the two I thought of my self to be King David listening to the Song of Songs and reading Psalms.


Ramy, Debby and Misha.