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Notes from the Narrow Place: Essays and Stories on Illness, Quarantine, and Healing
Notes from the Narrow Place: Essays and Stories on Illness, Quarantine, and Healing
Notes from the Narrow Place: Essays and Stories on Illness, Quarantine, and Healing
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Notes from the Narrow Place: Essays and Stories on Illness, Quarantine, and Healing

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The COVID years. A time of constriction, of staying at home, of restricting our breathing and our voices with masks, of limiting our travel and leisure experiences, of narrowing our social lives to those who live with us in our suddenly cramped and crowded houses. When our lungs suddenly didn't seem wide enough for our needs. When we quarantined, and then again, and sometimes again. Welcome to the Narrow Place. In these personal essays and stories, Rabbi Philip Graubart ranges through his extensive rabbinic career and paints moving portraits of characters, both real and imagined, who find themselves stuck in narrow places, and then, through grace or dogged effort or luck, manage to widen their circumstances and find a measure of redemption. A Palestinian friend yearns for companionship with Jews. An inspiring young baker wrestles with a deadly disease. A straying holy man struggles with his conscience. High school students rage against their confinements. And the author shares his battle with a confining illness. In each of these tales of restriction, expansiveness lurks in the background, and then, blessedly, breaks through.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 24, 2022
ISBN9781666742060
Notes from the Narrow Place: Essays and Stories on Illness, Quarantine, and Healing
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Philip Graubart

Philip Graubart is a rabbi and writer living in San Diego. He’s served pulpits in Massachusetts and California and also served in leadership positions at the Shalom Hartman Institute, the National Yiddish Book Center, and the San Diego Jewish Academy, where he now teaches.

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