Product Description

Congregation Beth Simchat Torah is pleased to announce the publication of Listening for the Oboe, a collection of drashot by Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum from her first ten years as spiritual leader of CBST. This important and moving book is now available for pre-order with a ship date of December 9, 2005. Here is an excerpt from the forward of the book: Read these drashot. They are the words of someone who sees a new thing happening, who sees how it expands our understanding of human experience, of community, and of religious concepts of justice and love. She is trying, with great skill,...and always with humor... to help us see it too." - from the forward, written by Constance Buchanan, Senior Program Officer, Religion, Society, and Culture, The Ford Foundation

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2171166 in Books
• Published on: 2005
• Binding: Paperback
• 155 pages

Customer Reviews

Truly inspirational
I read this book on the airplane last night. I cried while reading two of her sermons (drashot) -- they were so inspirational. This book should be read by every preaching student in every Christian and Jewish seminary. The sermons are thoughtful, encouraging, funny and challenging. By reading the sermons given over a period of ten years, along with her five year and ten year "state of the synagogue" addresses, one gets a clear sense of how this modern day prophet is both ministering to and building a faithful community.

Kim Bobo
Interfaith Worker Justice

A must read!!!!
This is a really wonderful collection of drashes by a truly outstanding rabbi. Rabbi Kleinbaum provides a magnificent model for clergy wondering how to help their congregants make sense of their tradition and of the challenges of living.For lay people, the book proides an opportunity to be in the presence of a great teacher and religious leader. Would that everyone could have someone of Rabbi Kleinbaum's caliber in their religious life!

Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer,PhD
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College