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The book of lights chaim potok5/21/2023 ![]() With an artist's eye, Potok vividly depicts an intense baseball game between Reuven and Danny's teams, where the two meet for the first time. The book provides memorable insight into the conflictions of American Jewish realities and Holocaust-era European Hasidism. The boys help one another choose a path of service from within each other's context. Danny Saunders is the son of a Polish hasidic rebbe who fled the Shoah and brought his followers to America. ![]() ![]() Reuven Malter is the son of a yeshiva teacher who holds (in the eyes of Orthodox Jews) modernist, heretical views on Judaism and Jewish texts. This novel is about two Jewish teenagers growing up in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, during and after the Second World War.īoth are studying to become rabbis. (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, 1967) They change our road choices, confirm (or demolish) our ideas, lead toward or away from God. Hebrew Streams: Book Review: The Chosen (Chaim Potok)fīooks shape us. ![]()
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