Zayis Ra'anan: The Gift of the Fresh Olive - Hardcover

Werther, Shabse

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1462875939 ISBN 13: 9781462875931

Publisher: Xlibris, 2011

Synopsis

At a festive gathering on the second day of the Succoth holiday 2009 seventeen year old Sholom B nayahu Werther related a piece of Talmudic lore to his family With uncharateristic gusto and passion he explained how the olive is a metaphor for the destiny of the Jewish people Thirty hours later the young man s life came to an abrupt end as the result of a hit and run accident Within days the metaphor of the fresh olive as well as Sholom s unusual name became the key to numerous afterdeath messages Applying the ancient tool of gimatriya that links the letters of the Hebrew alphabet to specific number values passages in the Tanach Bible revealed numerous references to Sholom s life faith and ultimate destiny Zayis Ra anan The Gift of the Fresh Olive is a riveting account of how those messages unfolded and became a source of consolation hope and encouragement that will be an eye opener to any person of faith Blog Posted for this book View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message View Blog Entries Visit Homepage View Articles Published on 10 02 2011 06 57 PM 1 Comment Shabse Werther is an Orthodox Jew who lost the tenth of his eleven sons to an accident when the boy was seventeen There followed such an astonishing series of communications in the religious and cultural idiom they shared that the father felt compelled to record his experiences This little treasure of a book is the result People familiar with the afterlife literature are used to the standard methods by which our loved ones assure us of their survival from coins and birds and butterflies to songs on the radio and familiar smells But all of that is clumsy hit or miss when compared with the elegant manner in which young Sholom here repeatedly greets his dad Orthodox Judaism is more than a religion It is a way of thinking and living so timeless and complete that we secular moderns have trouble comprehending it We tend to think of the Old Order Amish frozen as they are in the eighteen

Edition details

• Publisher: Xlibris
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1462875939
• ISBN 13: 9781462875931
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 98