Alan Rosen

Eighteen Words to Sustain a Life

World Religions

“This is a wonderful, searching, learned, and necessary book—personal and personable, joyous and loving, transmitting and telling all in one. David Patterson offers us eighteen English words that wrap within them Hebrew, Aramaic, and Yiddish teachings of Jewish life, about the life of a Jew, and surely about life itself. These richly evocative words and teachings are directed to his children and grandchildren. But they are clearly a gift to all of us as well.”