How 'This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared' became a High Holidays classic : vimarsana.com

JTA illustration by Mollie Suss. Every few years I put out a call asking what people will be reading in preparation for the High Holidays, and usually one book tops the list: “This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation,” by the late Rabbi Alan Lew.

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