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They say that you can\u2019t judge a book by its cover. But this book is different.<\/p>\n

Think Outside the Lox is a new collection of transformative essays revealing fresh perspectives on Jewish teachings and traditions, based on age-old Chassidic texts and the insights of the Baal Shem Tov.<\/p>\n

These essays\u2014sharing the Torah\u2019s rich meaning and mystical light\u2014can be read on their own or according to the weekly Torah readings and yearly holidays. The book also features, among other arcane tidbits, a flying fish.<\/p>\n

Captivating, imaginative, fun\u2014this book is rendered in a delightful style that anyone can appreciate, from the Hebrew school dropout to the advanced Talmudic scholar, leaving readers both inspired and entertained.<\/p>\n

Rabbi Boruch Cohen was born on a snow-blown night near the end of 1960, while five colored Chanukah candles burned on the kitchen counter of his family\u2019s American Dream house in a pretty little town in the suburbs west of Boston.<\/p>\n

But it took almost twenty-eight years until he saw the light.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, he attended public schools (nothing short of Kafkaesque) and a small liberal arts university (bachelor\u2019s degree in philosophy), then pursued a career in writing, first as a journalist, later as an aspiring fiction writer. Hebrew school at a temple named Beth had ended years earlier, after he\u2019d cashed his last bar mitzvah check. But at age twenty-seven, his inner world opened like a flip phone (pardon the anachronism), when he unexpectedly met a Chassidic rabbi\u2014his first exposure to meaningful Judaism\u2014and the warm alluring light of Jewish mystical wisdom, not to mention the irresistible appeal of donning a rakish black hat.<\/p>\n

Within months, he left one of the country\u2019s most prestigious fiction writing graduate programs to learn Torah full time in rabbinical college. In 1994, after six years of intensive study, he became a rabbi and, together with his wife, Ita Leah, settled in an assimilated neighborhood in search for the precious souls and holy sparks that can only be found through dedicated Jewish outreach. The essays collected in this book were written during those twenty-five-odd years.<\/p>\n

The couple now lives in Oak Park, Michigan. They have four sons and two daughters.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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