Three Books That Changed My Life

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My own rabbi quoted from You Don't Have to be Wrong... in a sermon once. While I don't remember the quote any more, the words were interesting enough to prompt me to pick up a copy of the book.

I have no doubt that writing YDHTBW had a profound impact on R. Hirschfield's life - as reading it has certainly shaped mine. I was raised in Christian fundamentalism and left that in my early teens for a pretty hardline form of antitheism. As an adult, I am in the process of conversion to Judaism - and learning moderation and a more modest religious belief have been parts of that process. R. Hirschfield's book has played a part in that learning. It was quite a shock coming from a lifetime of extremism to face these ideas that truth can be multifaceted, and that differing ideas need not necessarily be adversarial: that "you don't have to be wrong for me to be right" - or, as I've heard in another context, "Eilu v'eilu divrei Elokim chayim." These are things that I try to keep in mind now each day.

Hello DZ,

It would be interesting to read the Rabbi's autobiography and find out more on his spiritual journey of discovery, including his stint as a West Bank settler.

I must get and read de Gaulle's autobiography. My favourite thus far is Mahatma Gandhi's for a glimpse into the man's thinking - how and why. One has to read biographies on him by others for a "fuller" picture of the man.

Regards
"J"

Jihadist:

There are no 'legal' Israeli settlements outside the pre-1967 borders of Israel. Indeed, the Fourth Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a signator, defines dispossesion and settlement of occupied territory as war crimes.

With regard to autobiographies, one of my favorites, mostly because it's ludicrous in the extreme, is the memoirs of Charles de Gaulle. It is probably one of the most completely and thoroughly fact-free examples of the genre - but very amusing.

Hello Rabbi,

"Books That Changed My Life" does seem a bit of a hyperbole, except for fiction writers who always seem to be saying in interviews that they reading certain books changed their life in wanting to take up writing as a profession.

For the rest of us, it is mostly events and personal experiences that changed our life and thinking, while the books we read generally expand our knowledge and shape our thinking somewhat but are not the primary cause in changing our life.

As for your own book, your autobiography, now that should be interesting reading as you stated :

"because writing it changed my life by helping me to tell my own spiritual story -- from secular Jewish Chicago, to West Bank settler, to my current work." A West Bank settler? Legal I hope :)

As I was saying, it is events and experiences in our life that changed our our life. Some may write about it to share with others/readers who may or may not understand it, or to relate to it fully.

Reading autobiographies does open for one a window to the mind, heart and soul of the writer -what is said, what is not, what is highlighted, what is glossed over or completely left out in the self-examination and reflection of a life in writing about it.

Cheers
"J"